Trump’s new role for USPS in mail balloting is unconstitutional, three lawsuits say

Democrats compared President Donald Trump’s latest attempt to overhaul elections to George Orwell’s “1984,” in one of [three lawsuits now challenging](https://www.cnn.com/2026/04/02/politics/mail-ballots-trump-usps-lawsuits?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=missions&utm_source=listnook) Tuesday’s executive order, which instructs the US Postal Service to determine who does and doesn’t receive a mail ballot. Democratic congressional leaders and organizations, as well as two separate coalitions of voter advocacy groups, each filed lawsuits – prompting a sense of deja vu, as those Trump opponents previously brought successful legal challenges that halted parts of a March 2025 Trump executive order that sought to boost proof of citizenship requirements. The challengers say Trump is again violating the Constitution and several laws by imposing new hurdles to vote by mail in his latest executive order, and by unliterally taking over election decisions that are handled by states. Additionally, Trump’s order calls for federal agencies to use internal databases to create a “citizen” list to share with states. While the directive doesn’t lay out explicitly how that list would then be used, the challengers argue that it would violate privacy laws intended to protect against the federal government assembling a “personal dossier” on citizens in the vein of the dystopian novel. Further, they warn, the federal databases in question have shown themselves to be a flawed way of determining who is eligible to vote.

He WANTS it to be challenged so it can go to the supreme court and he can bully them into giving him what he wants.

This will go the way of public broadcasting and be ruined before a lawsuit can even begin to touch the issue IRL. USPS is gonna be a shell of itself soon and all because Cheeto in Chief just wants to sew chaos and take down a system he's got a vendetta for.

Three lawsuits, you say? Well butter my biscuit, surely that’ll stop him.

The USPS does has no legal right to stick their nose in Elections. States run the elections and have the last say in who has the right to vote. Not tRump nor USPS..... tRump entire EO on elections is 100% illegal.