WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Campaign Legal Center and Democracy Defenders Fund took another legal action to prevent the United States Postal Service from implementing new barriers to mail voting at the behest of an unlawful executive order from the president.
Implementing this new and illegal rule ahead of the midterm elections in November would cause ballot delays, strip Americans of their freedom to vote and sow confusion among voters.
CLC and DDF are representing the League of United Latin American Citizens, Arizona Students’ Association, Secure Families Initiative, the city of Madison, Wis., and Travis County, Texas, to prevent this new rule from going into effect.
“Key provisions of the president’s second executive order on elections have already been declared unlawful in multiple federal cases,” said Anna Baldwin, director of voting rights litigation at Campaign Legal Center. “But the U.S. Supreme Court’s recent lawless order on the shadow docket has given USPS the green light to attempt to implement their new mail voting rules — mere weeks before mail ballots start to be sent out in some parts of the country. But nothing in the Supreme Court’s procedural order suggests that the rules are lawful. We will not let the president’s dangerous anti-voter agenda go unchecked, so we’re filing a new complaint challenging USPS’ unconstitutional new rulemaking to ensure all voters can cast their ballot in November.”
