Posted on 06/26/2020 3:03:08 PM PDT by ransomnote
Republican groups are suing California Governor Gavin Newsom, claiming his recent executive order to mail every registered voter in the state a ballot ahead of the November election is an "illegal power grab" that redesigns the election system.
The Republican National Party, the National Republican Congressional Committee and the California Republican Party are listed as plaintiffs in the lawsuit, which was filed Sunday in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California.
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The executive order earlier this month made California the first state to in the nation to mail voters a ballot ahead of the November presidential election as a response to the coronavirus pandemic.
"In a direct usurpation of the legislature's authority, Governor Newsom issued an executive order purporting to rewrite the entire election code for the November 2020 election cycle," read the complaint. "This brazen power grab was not authorized by state law and violates both the Elections Clause and Electors Clause of the U.S. Constitution."
The lawsuit contends that the U.S. Constitution reserves for "state legislatures the power to set the time, place and manner of holding elections for Congress and the President." It further argues that state executive officers like Newsom "have no authority to unilaterally exercise that power."
RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said Democrats are using "this pandemic as a ploy to implement their partisan election agenda, and Governor Gavin Newsom's executive order is the latest direct assault on the integrity of our elections."
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Here's Gavin Newsom's phone number: 916/445-2841
The Dems are wildly supportive of mail-in-voting because decent people outnumber the freaks in this state and the only way they can win, now that President Trump's cyber security agencies have stopped their capacity to steal electronically, is to physically steal paper ballots.
What??? The republicans actually did something?
Going to court is for suckers any more.
Rioting and destroying stuff gets more done, obviously.
naaah...the Pubbies are jealous he’ll get to benefit from the mail-in voter scam this time around. That’s all you see going on here
It's a shame that this post has so little interest compared to a family guy cartoon post. Freeyores sure can be apathetic...
This is necessary to fight back at the rats usurping our Constitutional Republic. We were never intended to depend on the government to “do the right thing.” The crafters of our Constitutional system were wise enough to know that We The People needed methods of redress to illegal overreach by elected officials.
Until we as a society learn to participate and use the system we were given we really are the slaves they treat us like. I’m glad the pubbies in CA have taken action. Now I pray that every right-minded citizen of California jump aboard and take action as well.
No kidding.
Maybe there is hope for this country.
We need to pray for them.
Since when does Newsom do anything that isn’t a power grab.
Good. Have been waiting to see lawsuits filed - there should be more filed. Pour it on. Start now.
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