DOJ urges court to dismiss lawsuit against Trump executive order that aims to end mail-in voting and enforce citizenship

Source: Law & Crime

Jul 15th, 2025, 5:31 pm


The Trump administration is imploring a federal court to allow the government to move forward with a suite of federally-enforced changes to some states' long-standing election laws.

On March 25, President Donald Trump issued Executive Order 14248, titled "Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections." The order broadly seeks to reshape how elections are administered in the country by, among other things, purporting to enforce a requirement that all voters prove their citizenship by way of formal documentation and by putting a stop to vote-by-mail systems that count ballots postmarked by, but received after, Election Day.

Oregon and Washington – which have used vote by mail as their default voting mechanism for decades – originally sued for an injunction in early April and then moved to short-circuit the proceedings with a motion for partial summary judgment in late May.

Now, the Trump administration is looking to short-circuit the case in its own favor – and by using a different procedural posture.

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