Biden’s Voting Access Order Exceeds Authority: Lawsuit (Correct)

A Trump-aligned nonprofit is suing the Biden administration over a 2021 executive order promoting access to voting, seeking to quash a directive that instructed federal agencies to expand voter registration and election information.

The nonprofit organization America First Policy Institute, as well as Rep. Ronny Jackson (R-Texas) and others, say E.O. 14019 “encroaches on responsibilities that the Constitution leaves to the States,” according to the complaint filed Thursday at the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas. “No statute passed by Congress authorizes the EO, and the President has no inherent constitutional authority to issue it,” the ...