Mayes and Fontes Sue Trump Over His Unconstitutional Executive Order Restricting Mail-In Voting

Once again, Democratic Attorney Generals and Governors across the country are suing the Trump Administration in their latest attempt to create a Fascist-Authoritarian-Billionaires First-Everyone else Second or Lower Order in the United States.

This time, it is over Mr. Trump’s Executive Order to restrict mail-in voting for most Americans, excluding himself.

The order is considered by the great majority of people in the world of reality to be illegal and unconstitutional.

Both Arizona’s Attorney General Kris Mayes and Secretary of State Adrian Fontes issued a joint statement announcing the law suit.

Mayes conveyed:

“Millions of Independents, Republicans, and Democrats across Arizona have voted by mail for decades. In fact, over 80% of Arizona voters cast their ballots this way, election after election. Military families vote by mail. Rural Arizonans vote by mail. Tribal members vote by mail. Donald Trump’s executive order targets all of these voters. But the Constitution is absolutely clear: states run their elections. Not the President. And Arizona will not allow the federal government to seize control of our elections.”

Fontes offered:

“The greatest threat to the safety and security of our elections is Donald Trump continuing to lie about them. Arizona’s elections are run by Arizonans–our neighbors, our friends, and our family. This latest attack on vote-by-mail and voter privacy is a direct attack not just on our voters but on our election administrators who work day in and day out to keep Democracy running. For decades, Arizona’s mail-in voting system has operated as the gold standard, serving the vast majority of voters each election season. It is critical that we reject the notion that access and security are mutually exclusive when it comes to running strong elections.”

In an interview with Democracy Now, Secretary Fontes said:

“…I call it disgusting because it is. First and foremost, Article 1, Section 4 reserves the power to establish the time, place and manner of elections to the states alone and gives Congress a role.

Now, the President has previously issued an executive order that he got shot down on. The rule of law now in the country is he doesn’t have a role in administering our elections. And yet he tried again.

This is a lawless president. And that’s why this is a disgusting overreach. He’s already been told by the courts this is not his business.

And yet he’s trying to do it again. One of the other reasons that I called it that is because this is clearly an attempt for the president to pick his own voters. He doesn’t really care about the real voice of American voters, which would mean that he would expand the franchise…”

Furthermore, the statement justifies its lawsuit by relaying:

“The coalition (filing the suit) explains that the U.S. Constitution gives states the primary authority to administer elections. In contrast, the Constitution does not allow the President to unilaterally impose changes to federal election procedures, particularly without an act of Congress permitting him to do so.”