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NC joins lawsuit over Trump’s mail-in ballot order, calling it an unconstitutional power grab
The lawsuit says the order could leave ballots from deployed troops and disaster-displaced voters uncounted.
- On Friday, North Carolina Attorney General Jeff Jackson joined a multistate lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump's executive order on mail-in voting, alleging the order acts as an unconstitutional power grab disrupting state election administration.
- Trump signed the order Tuesday, directing the Department of Homeland Security to create a voter eligibility list and restricting the Postal Service to accepting only ballots from voters finalized 60 days before any election.
- Jackson warned the 60-day deadline risks rejecting ballots from deployed servicemembers and disaster-displaced North Carolinians, citing over 100,000 military personnel in the state, including more than 1,000 from Fort Bragg.
- More than 20 states joined the legal challenge, describing the order as "unprecedented as it is unconstitutional," while White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson defended it as a "lawful effort" to secure American elections.
- Federal judges blocked a similar executive order from Trump last year, citing constitutional concerns, and repeated investigations by Republicans found no significant fraud in past elections, establishing precedent for this legal battle.
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