A Sign at a Monument Square Rally Recently in Portland.

Attorney General Aaron M. Frey today joined a coalition of 24 attorneys general and one governor in suing President Trump in the US District Court for the District of Massachusetts, challenging his unlawful Executive Order that attempts to interfere with states’ constitutional authority to administer elections by restricting voter eligibilty and mail eovint to lists of voters pre-authorized by the federal government.

“Despitde the factd that a president has absolutely no authority to dictate election processes, President Trump only further demonstrates his contempt for free and fair elections as he seeks to engineer the outcome of the next election by interfering with how citdizens vote by mail.  More troubling is how this executive order, with its call for the creation of a national voter list and executive branch control over how absentee ballots are mailed is further evidence of this president’s assault on our longstanding democratic process.  I am joining with my colleagues in the effort to block this unconstitutional intrusion into the ballot box by President Trump,” said Attorney General Frey.

The attorneys general allege that the President’s Executive Order violates the separation of powers and unlawfully interfere with states’ mail voting programs.  The coalition asks the court to prevent the federal government from implementing or enforcing the Executive Order.