'This is bullshit. And it's illegal.'

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Acyn @Acyn 2h
Trump on Executive Order on Mail-In Voting: I don't know how it can be challenged. We will appeal if it is, but I don't see how anybody can challenge it. I don't see how they can challenge it.

Gavin Newsom @GavinNewsom 1h
We’re challenging it.

See you in court.

Katherine Clark @TeamKClark (Dem Whip)
Article I, Section 4, Clause 1 of the Constitution:

“The Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections for Senators and Representatives, shall be prescribed in each State by the Legislature thereof.”

Another illegal order by a wannabe dictator.

Marc E. Elias @marceelias 2h
This is a massive and unconstitutional voter suppression effort aimed at giving Trump the power to create a list of who is allowed to vote by mail.

We know where this will go -- the targeting of Democrats for mass disenfranchisement.

We will sue and we will win.

If Trump signs an unconstitutional Executive Order to take over voting, we will sue. I don't bluff and I usually win.

Governor Newsom Press Office @GovPressOffice 1h
The President wants to limit which Americans can participate in our democracy.

California will see him in court.

Brennan Center @BrennanCenter
Breaking: The president has signed an executive order on mail voting. He has no lawful authority to write the rules that govern our elections. He tried a year ago; we sued him; we won. A year later, he has tried again. He can expect the same result.

Our government's citizenship lists are incomplete and inaccurate. The United States Postal Service is overburdened and inadequate. This combines a car crash with a train wreck.

David Weigel @daveweigel
Marc Elias about to Kool-Aid Man through the wall of the Prettyman courthouse

Marc E. Elias @marceelias 56m
True.

[Maninacan]

1. My Governer

Yeah Tony!

[UpInArms]

2. El stupido

has delusions of unlimited powers

I shall be so happy when he is serving a life sentenced in some gulag for his crimes

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3. Midterms coming too fast for TSF. This, his demand from Penn U to give him Jewish voter rolls, ICE at polls

His desperation is gonna come fast and furious as he tries to burn it all down on his way out

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4. I am interested to see what Vermont

Governor Phil Scott, a republican, will have to say. Charity Clark, our Attorney General, will certainly be on this.

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Vermont Secretary of State Sarah Copeland Hanzas, one of whose duties is to oversee elections in the state, took part on Friday in a panel on election integrity hosted by the Burlington Republicans.

“[In 2020] there was only one instance of an irregularity that rose to the level of fraud,” she said. “…. I think the big challenge in a democracy is not the 0.003% chance that someone might fraudulently cast a ballot. It’s the 30 to 60% of Vermonters who aren’t voting.”

https://www.mychamplainvalley.com/news/local-news/new-york/local-politicians-skeptical-after-trump-signs-executive-order-targeting-mail-in-ballots/

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5. 'See you in court. You will lose': Democrats, voting rights advocates blast Trump's 'unconstitutional' mail voting orde

“See you in court. You will lose,” Senate Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) wrote promptly on X.

“Donald Trump just voted by mail in the Florida special election where he was once again defeated. Now he wants to ban it for everyone else,” Jeffries wrote. “What a phony.”

Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) cast the move as an act of political desperation.

“The President’s attack on mail-in ballots is desperation plain and simple,” Warnock wrote. “It’s a panicked attempt to silence the people and salvage a failing presidency. It will not stand.”

Other Democrats emphasized the legal stakes.

Sen. Alex Padilla (D-Calif.), the top Democrat on the Senate Rules Committee, said the order is a “blatant, unconstitutional abuse of power,” warning that the Trump has “no authority to commandeer federal elections or direct the Postal Service to undermine mail and absentee voting.”

Meanwhile, Rep. Joe Morelle (D-N.Y.), the top Democrat on the House Administration Committee, called the order “illegal, dangerous and subversive,” adding: “Donald Trump fears the American people and is willing to violate the Constitution to stop them from voting.”

State officials also signaled immediate resistance.

California Gov. Gavin Newsom’s office said the state would immediately challenge the order in court, adding: “The President wants to limit which Americans can participate in our democracy. California will see him in court.”

Secretary of State Adrian Fontes (D), Arizona’s top election official, warned the order represents a major federal overreach into state-run elections.

“This Executive Order is a disgusting overreach from the federal government and shows how little the Trump Administration understands about election administration,” Fontes said, adding that “states run elections and understand what must be done to protect every eligible voter, the federal government does not.”

Maine Secretary of State Shenna Bellows (D) also pushed back, emphasizing states’ authority over elections.

“President Trump clearly didn’t get the copy of the Constitution I sent him. This executive order is laughably unconstitutional,” Bellows said. “The president isn’t in charge of elections — the states are. We will not back down in defending the integrity of our elections and the rule of law no matter how many times or ways President Trump tries.”

https://www.democracydocket.com/news-alerts/democrats-voting-rights-advocates-blast-trump-order-mail-voting/

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7. This is something I am supposed to know

and I don't see how the Postal Service can even act on this. Whatever goes in the mail gets delivered. States could even sneak ballots through whatever roadblocks the Feds might impose into delivery processing. Once in the mail there is no legal way to cull legitimate mailings for their so-called list. Probably, certainly, no practical way either. Bush tried enlisting letter carriers as neighborhood spies. At least that was simpler. This is unimaginable, unintelligible, as it is illegal under many statutes- including the independent USPS totally bs. Maybe he wants to dump all the ballots in the straits of Hormuz?

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8. The asshole just voted by mail last week.

We are in the Twilight Zone.


Trump said he voted by mail in Florida because he ‘should be’ in D.C. He cast his ballot from Palm Beach.
https://www.politico.com/news/2026/03/26/trump-mail-voting-florida-special-elections-00846571