Arizona’s Democratic Attorney General, Kris Mayes, and Secretary of State, Adrian Fontes, have joined dozens of Democratic states in a lawsuit against the Trump Administration, challenging an executive order that makes it harder to cheat in elections and prioritizes prosecution of election crimes.
The President’s March 25 Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections executive order mandates voter ID and documentary proof of citizenship to vote in federal elections, audits and improves the security of voting machines, and orders the DOJ to enforce the law against states that count mail-in ballots received after Election Day. It also prioritizes the enforcement of laws preventing foreign money from influencing elections and federally funded organizations from lobbying or supporting candidates.
Additionally, the order includes a provision that “the Department of Homeland Security, in coordination with the DOGE Administrator, shall review each State’s publicly available voter registration list and available records concerning voter list maintenance activities as required by 52 U.S.C. 20507, alongside Federal immigration databases and State records requested, including through subpoena where necessary and authorized by law, for consistency with Federal requirements.” This will ensure that illegal aliens are not slipping through the cracks and committing election fraud, especially in border states like Arizona.
The nineteen far-left Attorneys General filed their lawsuit in the Massachusetts Federal District Court, arguing that the President’s order is unconstitutional. They further allege that the federal government’s policy of enforcing federal law and preventing illegals from voting in federal elections “interferes with States’ inherent sovereignty and their constitutional power to regulate the time, place, and manner of federal elections.”
The Gateway Pundit reported that the Democratic Party, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries also filed a lawsuit in Washington, DC, last week against President Trump so that they can continue to allow illegal aliens to vote in US elections.
Both lawsuits were filed just days after DOGE head Elon Musk revealed that millions of illegal aliens were issued Social Security Numbers under the Biden Regime, including 2.1 million in 2024 alone.
“This was a massive, large-scale program under the Biden administration to import as many illegals as possible—ultimately to change the voting map of the United States, disenfranchise the American people, and lock in a permanent deep-blue, one-party state from which there’d be no escape,” Musk stated as he revealed the bombshell data to voters ahead of the Wisconsin Supreme Court election.
To combat the lawfare from Democrat election fraudsters, Rep. Abe Hamadeh (R-AZ), whose 2022 race for Arizona Attorney General was stolen by Kris Mayes, introduced legislation last week to codify the President’s executive order, The Gateway Pundit exclusively reported. His legislation is meant to thwart Democrats and their rogue activist judges from legislating through the courts.
EXCLUSIVE: Rep. Abe Hamadeh (R-AZ) Introduces Bill to Codify President Trump’s Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections Executive Order as Democrats Sue to Prevent Secure Elections
Hamadeh’s office released a statement on Thursday, slamming “the beneficiaries of Arizona’s broken election system,” Mayes and Fontes, and their “Radical Attack on Election Integrity.”
“Arizona’s illegitimate Attorney General Kris Mayes and Secretary of State Adrian Fontes and their ilk across the country will go to any lengths to keep our elections processes broken,” the press release states.
It can be recalled that 60% of voting machines failed to tabulate votes in Maricopa County, Arizona, on election day in 2022, creating hours-long lines and disenfranchising tens, if not hundreds, of thousands of voters. Kris Mayes, Adrian Fontes, and Arizona Governor Katie Hobbs successfully stole the election through illegal machine shenanigans, fraudulent mail-in ballots with no chain of custody documentation, and voter registration glitches–all overseen by then-Secretary of State Katie Hobbs.
Most notably, Kris Mayes stole the election for Attorney General by 280 votes, and thousands of Republican votes across the state were discarded after their voter registrations were wrongfully canceled.
Now, they’re desperately fighting to secure their grip on power by averting election oversight and law enforcement as they prepare to run for reelection next November.
Attorney General Kris Mayes said in a press release Thursday,
Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes and Arizona Secretary of State Adrian Fontes today joined a coalition of 19 states in filing a lawsuit against President Donald J. Trump, U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi, the federal Election Assistance Commission, and other Trump Administration officials over Executive Order No. 14248 (the Elections Executive Order), an unconstitutional, anti-democratic, and un-American attempt to impose sweeping voting restrictions across the country.
Among other things, the Elections Executive Order attempts to conscript State election officials in the President’s campaign to override our elections system. It also seeks to upend common-sense, well-established State procedures for counting ballots — procedures that make it easier for peoples’ voices to be heard.
“This EO is an unacceptable and unconstitutional intrusion on the rights of states and the power of Congress by an out-of-control executive branch hellbent on destroying 250 years of precedent,” said Attorney General Mayes. “Clearly, Trump only supports state’s rights when it suits him.”
The President has no constitutional power to rewrite State election laws by decree, nor does the President have the authority to modify the rules Congress has created for elections. The coalition’s lawsuit, filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, explains that the power to regulate elections is reserved to the States and Congress, and that therefore, the Elections Executive Order is ultra vires, beyond the scope of presidential power, and violative of the separation of powers. The attorneys general ask the court to block the challenged provisions of the Elections Executive Order and declare them unconstitutional and void.
“If President Trump wanted to make laws then he should have run for congress where the U.S. Constitution says that work is done,” said Secretary of State Fontes. “The Constitution also says elections belong to the states. If the President wants to reshape our elections, he must propose realistic bipartisan legislation in Congress instead of forcing states into unfunded mandates through unlawful executive orders.”
In their lawsuit, the attorneys general assert that provisions of the Elections Executive Order will cause imminent and irreparable harm to the States if they are not enjoined. The challenged provisions include:
Commanding “the head of each Federal voter registration executive department or agency (agency) under the National Voter Registration Act, 52 U.S.C. 20506(a)” to begin implementing aspects of the Executive Order. This aspect of the Elections Executive Order commandeers State agencies and their personnel, forcing States to participate in the President’s unlawful and unnecessary agenda.
Forcing States to alter their ballot counting laws to exclude “absentee or mail-in ballots received after Election Day.” In Arizona, voted ballots must be received by 7pm on Election Day in order to be counted. However, this Elections Executive Order could impact the ability to cure ballots under Arizona law.
Requiring military and overseas voters to submit documentary proof of citizenship and eligibility to vote in state elections. The Federal Post Card Application form is used by voters in the military or living abroad to register to vote in federal elections. Federal law unequivocally grants them the ability to register and cast a ballot “in the last place in which the person was domiciled before leaving the United States” — there is no requirement that this form demand documentary proof of citizenship or proof of current eligibility to vote in a particular state.
Threatening to withhold various streams of federal funding to the States for purported noncompliance with the challenged provisions. In so doing, the Elections Executive Order seeks to control Plaintiff States’ exercise of their sovereign powers through raw Executive domination, contrary to the U.S. Constitution and its underlying principles of federalism and the separation of powers.
In filing today’s lawsuit, Attorney General Kris Mayes joins the attorneys general of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Massachusetts, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin. The litigation was led by California Attorney General Rob Bonta and Nevada Attorney General Aaron Ford.
A copy of the complaint can be found here.
Mayes and Fontes announced their lawsuit and intent to prevent the federal government from enforcing the law and lawfully accessing publicly available voter data during a press conference on Wednesday.
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