California Governor Gavin Newsom has announced a lawsuit against the Trump administration. This follows the Supreme Court’s decision to permit the enforcement of provisions in President Trump’s executive order on ‘election integrity’ during ongoing litigation.
The court’s ruling, made with a 6-3 vote, lifts an injunction that had previously blocked the order in 23 states. The decision focuses on the injunction rather than establishing the order’s ultimate legality, leaving the possibility for future legal challenges.
“The Supreme Court just let the Trump administration move ahead (for now) with its plan to disenfranchise voters across the country,” Newsom stated. “California will be suing AGAIN to block these Orwellian rules from being implemented.”
Newsom also highlighted two bills progressing through the California Legislature, aimed at safeguarding elections from interference. AB 282 and SB 259 focus on establishing felonies related to ballot, election record, or certified voting technology seizure before results certification, and penalizing interference in mail-in ballot delivery.
President Trump’s executive order intends to create citizenship-based lists of eligible voters and restrict USPS from delivering mail-in ballots to individuals not on approved lists. The Department of Justice and USPS are expected to enforce these revised restrictions.
The Supreme Court clarified that the executive order imposes obligations on federal agencies rather than on states directly, as explained: “[It] directs the Secretary of Homeland Security to take appropriate action to create and distribute State Citizenship Lists…This provision is an internal directive from the President to a subordinate. It imposes no obligations on the States, so they ‘suffer no concrete harm from’ it, and without concrete harm, there is no standing.”
Dissenting justices include Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson. A response from Newsom’s office was not available at the time of reporting.
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