The Trump campaign filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D), claiming Murphy’s executive order requiring that every voter in the state be sent a mail-in ballot prior to the 2020 presidential election is an illegal and unconstitutional usurpation of the state’s legislative power.
The Trump campaign filed a lawsuit on Tuesday against New Jersey Gov. Phil Murphy (D), claiming Murphy’s executive order requiring that every voter in the state be sent a mail-in ballot prior to the 2020 presidential election is an illegal and unconstitutional usurpation of the state’s legislative power. The complaint, filed in the U. S. District Court for New Jersey, asked the court to declare Murphy’s “brazen power grab” as being in violation of the U. S. Constitution’s Elections Clause, Electors Clause, and Fourteenth Amendment. “In a direct usurpation of the legislature’s authority, Governor Murphy issued Executive Order 177 purporting to rewrite the election code for the November 2020 election,” the lawsuit stated. “Moreover, in his haste, the Governor created a system that will violate eligible citizens’ right to vote. By ordering universal vote-by-mail, he has created a recipe for disaster. Fraudulent and invalid votes dilute the votes of honest citizens and deprive them of their right to vote in violation of the Fourteenth Amendment.” The campaign is seeking a to have a federal judge block implementation of the order, claiming “EO 177 is illegal and must be enjoined.” The campaign claimed that Murphy’s order “invites fraud and undermines the public’s confidence in the integrity of elections,” citing several examples to bolster its case.
