Trump mail-in voting order sparks lawsuit from Democrats 

Democrats on Wednesday sued the Trump administration to block President Trump’s recent executive order cracking down on mail-in voting.  

The president announced earlier this week that he directed Homeland Security Secretary Markwayne Mullin, along with the Social Security Administration, to create a list of verified U.S. citizens who are eligible to vote. The U.S. Postal Service (USPS) will only be permitted to send ballots to those people.

“Our Constitution’s Framers anticipated this kind of desire for absolute power,” wrote prominent Democratic election lawyer Marc Elias in the complaint. “They recognized the menace it would pose to ordered liberty and the ways in which it would corrode self-government like an acid.”

“And so, to preserve the People’s own sovereignty, they crafted a system of government to resist that threat,” he continued, contending that the Constitution empowers the states and Congress to determine who may vote by mail, not presidents.  

Democratic leaders in Congress — Senate Minority Leader........

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