Overview
- A coalition of 21 states filed a federal lawsuit in Massachusetts to stop a new executive order that ties mail ballots to a federal citizenship list.
- The complaint says the order directs the U.S. Postal Service to send ballots only to people on a federally maintained list, overriding state voter rolls and procedures.
- Virginia Attorney General Jay Jones joined the case and warned the policy would disenfranchise voters in the November election.
- A separate suit by the League of Women Voters and other groups, represented by the ACLU, Legal Defense Fund, and the Brennan Center, argues the plan would block voters with disabilities, military families, and citizens abroad from voting by mail.
- The cases have no court dates yet, and the outcome could shape the 2026 midterms since states, not the White House, run voter registration and mail voting.