Nine States File Lawsuit to Stop Biden Voter Registration Executive Order...

by Steve Wilson of The Center Square via New York Post

Nine states have filed a lawsuit this week to stop President Joe Biden’s executive order concerning federal workers and voter registration.

The states say that the federal bureaucracy is inserting itself into state electoral systems and the voter registration process without the scrutiny of a public comment period.

Mississippi, Montana, Kansas, Iowa, Nebraska, North Dakota, Oklahoma, South Carolina and South Dakota filed a complaint in the U.S. District Court for the District of Kansas on Tuesday to halt the implementation of the March 7, 2021, executive order.

President Joe Biden speaking at the White House Creator Economy Conference in the Indian Treaty Room, holding a microphone — *Biden’s executive order is coming under fire for exceeding presidential authority.Getty Images*

Biden’s order required federal agencies to develop strategies to expand voter registration efforts and to submit plans to the administration within 200 days.

The complaint says the order would “convert the federal bureaucracy into a voter registration organization and to turn every interaction between a federal bureaucrat and a member of the public into a voter registration pitch.”

“That exceeds any authority executive entities have under federal law, violates the Constitution, threatens states’ attempt to regulate voter registration, and thus ultimately undermines the voter registration systems set up by the states,” the complaint says.

The states also say the order would have consequences for state elections by…