The Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, alongside the NAACP, Common Cause, and Black Voters Matter Fund, has filed a lawsuit challenging President Trump’s new executive order on mail-in voting.
Shaylyn Cochran, deputy executive director for the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said: “The executive order is unlawful, unconstitutional, and a clear overreach of executive power. It reflects yet another dangerous attempt by this administration to erect obstacles to the ballot and to intimidate voters. If left to stand, the executive order would upend state laws and procedures on voting, tread on the Constitution, and threaten to shut out a significant number of Black voters from the political process. In filing today’s lawsuit, we are standing up for the rule of law and standing by the Lawyers’ Committee’s founding commitment to making the promises of our democracy real.”
Rob Weiner, director of the Voting Rights Project at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights Under Law, said: “The executive order sets the stage for an absolute train wreck in future elections. The Lawyers’ Committee convenes the Election Protection hotline and we encourage voters with questions to contact us at 866-OUR-VOTE. But apart from the confusion and chaos the executive order will cause, it’s deeply concerning that this administration is trying to create lists of people that it does and does not want voting. This order represents one more effort to undermine free and democratic elections.”
Read more in the press release:
tinyurl.com/5d933cds
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