The Trump Administration has approached the Supreme Court for an “expedited” (fast) appeal on behalf of Trump’s March 2026 Executive Order on elections; evidently, his crazed July 16 speech on “election fraud,” which claimed the American election system was completely corrupted and infiltrated by foreign powers, was in preparation for this emergency appeal. The Executive Order, which was to apply to those states which issue mail-in ballots, has been struck down by numerous state and Federal judges, and by the Federal Court of Appeals based in Boston on July 25, on the clear grounds that the Constitution gives authority over elections to the states.
The publicized aspect of the Executive Order would require states to submit their lists of mail-in voters to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), supposedly to ensure that no non-citizens were voting that way; then the U.S. Post Office could send out ballots only to the voters DHS had vetted. The less publicized aspect: Trump appointed as a “special counsel for election security” a very active “Stop the Steal” election-denying lawyer from the 2020 election aftermath, Kurt Olsen. And the Executive Order also would bring in DHS to vet the states’ entire voter rolls and provide lists of voters it considers eligible.
