{"id":70833,"date":"2026-04-03T17:56:26","date_gmt":"2026-04-03T22:56:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/democratic-attorneys-general-sue-trump-over-order-to-restrict-mail-voting\/"},"modified":"2026-04-03T17:56:26","modified_gmt":"2026-04-03T22:56:26","slug":"democratic-attorneys-general-sue-trump-over-order-to-restrict-mail-voting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/democratic-attorneys-general-sue-trump-over-order-to-restrict-mail-voting\/","title":{"rendered":"Democratic attorneys general sue Trump over order to restrict mail voting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 20 attorneys general challenge the executive order and say it\u2019s an unconstitutional move to disenfranchise voters<\/p>\n<p>More than 20 Democratic attorneys general filed a <a href=\"https:\/\/oag.ca.gov\/system\/files\/attachments\/press-docs\/1.%202026.04.03%20-%20California%20v%20Trump%20-%20Complaint.pdf\">lawsuit<\/a> Friday challenging Donald Trump\u2019s Tuesday executive order to restrict who can vote by mail.<\/p>\n<p>In his order, Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/02\/civil-rights-groups-mail-in-voting-trump-lawsuit\">directed<\/a> the US Postal Service to abstain from sending mail-in or absentee ballots to people who are not on a pre-ordained list of eligible citizens.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/apr\/03\/attorneys-general-trump-mail-in-voting-lawsuit\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 20 attorneys general challenge the executive order and say it\u2019s an unconstitutional move to disenfranchise voters More than 20 Democratic attorneys general filed a lawsuit Friday challenging Donald Trump\u2019s Tuesday executive order to restrict who can vote by mail. In his order, Trump directed the US Postal Service to abstain from sending mail-in or &#8230; <a title=\"Democratic attorneys general sue Trump over order to restrict mail voting\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/04\/03\/democratic-attorneys-general-sue-trump-over-order-to-restrict-mail-voting\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Democratic attorneys general sue Trump over order to restrict mail voting\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-70833","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70833\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}