The Democratic Party has taken legal action to halt President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order on the election system, warning that the changes could strip eligible US citizens of their right to vote.
In a lawsuit filed in Washington, DC federal court, the Democratic National Committee (DNC) accused Trump of overstepping his authority with his 25th of March directive.
The order demands that voters provide proof of US citizenship, bans states from counting mail-in ballots received after Election Day, and threatens to withdraw federal funding from non-compliant states.
Prominent Democratic election attorney Marc Elias, along with his legal team, spearheaded the lawsuit, calling the executive order a drastic attempt to rewrite how Americans register, vote, and participate in democracy.
According to the lawsuit, these measures could disenfranchise lawful voters and are entirely unconstitutional.
Among the high-profile plaintiffs in the case are Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, both of whom argue that the order undermines the very foundations of the US electoral system.
As of this report, the White House has yet to respond to the lawsuit.
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The Trump administration has previously defended the order as a necessary safeguard against foreign interference in US elections. However, Trump has a history of casting doubt on the integrity of the electoral process, repeatedly and falsely claiming that his 2020 defeat to President Joe Biden resulted from widespread fraud.
Despite a lack of evidence, Trump and his Republican allies have continued to push the narrative that non-citizens are voting in significant numbers an assertion that remains largely unsubstantiated.
The Democratic lawsuit contends that the US Constitution vests power in individual states and Congress, not the president, to regulate federal elections.
“The Framers of our federal Constitution foresaw that self-interested and self-aggrandizing leaders might seek to corrupt our democratic system of government to expand and preserve their own power,” the lawsuit argues.
Earlier on the 31st of March, 2025, voting rights organizations, including the Campaign Legal Center and the State Democracy Defenders Fund, launched a separate legal battle against the executive order, further intensifying the fight over America’s electoral future.