Donald Trump is “unlawfully” trying to dictate how states run elections in violation of the U.S. Constitution by restricting voter eligibility and mail-in voting to lists of voters pre-authorized by the Trump administration, according to a federal lawsuit filed on Friday.

In March 2025, the 45th and 47th president issued Executive Order 14248, titled: “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections.” The order broadly seeks to reshape how elections are administered in the country by, among other things, purporting to enforce a requirement that all voters prove their citizenship by way of formal documentation and by putting a stop to vote-by-mail systems that count ballots postmarked by, but received after, Election Day.

Last month, Trump issued yet another elections-focused executive order titled: “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections.” The latest order aims to firm up and formalize the administration’s citizenship-and-documentation efforts by creating and enforcing the use of approved voter lists, limiting mail-in voting based on harmony with such lists, and imposing record-keeping requirements on states.