LEADER JEFFRIES STATEMENT ON SUPREME COURT DECISION ON MAIL-IN VOTING

Today, Democratic Leader Hakeem Jeffries released the following statement:

The sycophantic Supreme Court majority’s decision in the vote-by-mail case is sowing chaos in service to Donald Trump’s effort to undermine our free and fair elections. The Trump-aligned justices on the Supreme Court did not and cannot give the President the power to decide how states run elections or who gets to vote by mail. 

The legal fight against Donald Trump’s unlawful executive order is not over, the order does not override the Constitution and the power to regulate elections remains with states and the Congress.

After breaking every promise they made to the American people, extreme MAGA Republicans have concluded that their best course of action is to suppress the vote, intimidate the electorate and try to rig the outcome of the midterm elections. In response, House Democrats have put together the largest voter protection effort ever assembled. The American people, not Donald Trump, should and will choose their elected officials. We will continue to push back in the courts, in communities across the country and at the ballot box. Regime change is coming to the United States Congress in November.