ACLU Takes Legal Action Over Trump Election Commission Executive Order

May 11, 2017 4:00 pm

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NEW YORK — The American Civil Liberties Union took legal action today related to President Trump’s new executive order establishing a “Presidential Commission on Election Integrity.” The ACLU filed a Freedom of Information Act “FOIA” request seeking information that the Trump administration is using as the basis for its voter fraud claims. The commission vice chair is Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, whom the American Civil Liberties Union has successfully sued numerous times over voter suppression policies.

Dale Ho, director of the ACLU’s Voting Rights Project, had this reaction to the executive order:

“President Trump is attempting to spread his own fake news about election integrity. Such claims have been widely debunked, but he is still trying to push his false reality on the American public. It is telling that the president’s choice to co-lead the commission is none other than Kris Kobach, one of the worst offenders of voter suppression in the nation today. If the Trump administration really cares about election integrity, it will divulge its supposed evidence before embarking on this commission boondoggle.”

The FOIA request is at: https://www.aclu.org/legal-document/foia-records-surrounding-executive-order-creating-presidential-commission-election

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