19 Democratic AGs Drop The Lawsuit Hammer On Trump Elections Executive Order

19 Democratic State Attorneys General have filed a lawsuit against Trump's elections executive order and said that the order is unconstitutional.

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Attorneys general in blue states have been the backbone of the legal resistance to Trump, and that resistance continued in response to Trump trying to federalize state-run elections.

The AGs wrote in their lawsuit:

The Elections EO violates the Constitution. It interferes with States’ inherent sovereignty and their constitutional power to regulate the time, place, and manner of federal elections. It also usurps Congress’s powers to legislate (under the Elections Clause) and to appropriate (under the Spending Clause) because Congress has not chosen to implement the changes the President seeks to impose by decree. The critical funds at issue have in large measure already been appropriated by Congress.

And if these coercive threats were not enough, the Elections EO threatens to target Plaintiff States with Department of Justice investigations and potential prosecution.

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