Republican-led states on July 29 filed an emergency application with the U.S. Supreme Court seeking to reinstate key parts of President Donald Trump’s executive order on election integrity that a federal district judge blocked.
The states argued that the Massachusetts-based judge was wrong to block the president’s efforts to verify potential voters’ U.S. citizenship and tighten mail-ballot security ahead of the upcoming November elections.
Trump’s Executive Order 14399, dated March 31, aimed to clarify mail-in voting rules across the country. It was challenged by 23 Democratic-led states and the District of Columbia.
In June, U.S. District Judge Indira Talwani of Massachusetts ruled that parts of the order were beyond the president’s power and blocked its enforcement in those jurisdictions. The ruling applies only to the 24 jurisdictions that sued, including California, Massachusetts, Maryland, Arizona, Maine, and New Mexico, which comprise nearly half the country….