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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(136,931 posts) Tue May 5, 2026, 05:18 PM 19 hrs ago

Federal agencies haven't started on Trump order restricting voting by mail, DOJ says

Federal agencies say they have yet to take steps to implement President Donald Trump’s executive order restricting voting by mail, as the Department of Justice fights a Democrat-led lawsuit against it.

The Justice Department late Friday filed documents asking a federal judge to dismiss the lawsuit and to not block the executive order on a preliminary basis because the order hasn’t been implemented. The filings marked the Trump administration’s first effort to defend the order in court.

The March 31 order directs the creation of state citizenship lists and restricts how ballots can be sent through the mail, instructions that Democrats and election experts have called unconstitutional and illegal. It comes as Trump has seized on the specter of noncitizen voting, an extremely rare phenomenon, to demand sweeping voting restrictions.

In its Friday filing, the Justice Department sought to persuade Judge Carl J. Nichols in U.S. District Court in the District of Columbia that a legal challenge is premature.

https://washingtonstatestandard.com/2026/05/04/repub/federal-agencies-havent-started-on-trump-order-restricting-voting-by-mail-doj-says/

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Federal agencies haven't started on Trump order restricting voting by mail, DOJ says (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin 19 hrs ago OP

No can do...as previous posts have said, voting procedures are set up and controlled by the states... wcmagumba 19 hrs ago #1

Please stop it................... Lovie777 19 hrs ago #2

I think they're slow walking this Diraven 18 hrs ago #3

wcmagumba

(6,550 posts)

1. No can do...as previous posts have said, voting procedures are set up and controlled by the states...

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue May 5, 2026, 05:23 PM

19 hrs ago

So t-rump and the feds can just eff off...

Also, please hurry up the croaking.

Lovie777

(23,484 posts)

2. Please stop it...................

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue May 5, 2026, 05:44 PM

19 hrs ago

please let this nightmare end, and no, it's up to the states.

Diraven

(1,936 posts)

3. I think they're slow walking this

Reply to Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin (Original post)

Tue May 5, 2026, 06:48 PM

18 hrs ago

So they can use it to justify throwing out only certain mail-in votes right after the election, provided decides races in favor of Republicans. That's way more useful to them than simply blocking them all now.

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