As at least one congressman expected, California Attorney General Rob Bonta along with Arizona’s Attorney General Kris Mayes and Secretary of State Adrian Fontes have joined forces to file a lawsuit against President Trump’s Executive Order to restore election integrity.
Congressman Abe Hamadeh (AZ-08) says he correctly anticipated that the “beneficiaries of Arizona’s broken election system” would file a lawsuit preventing much-needed reforms embodied in President Trump’s Executive Order 14248, entitled Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections.”
Congressman Hamadeh introduced legislation to support and codify President Donald Trump’s election integrity agenda “knowing that Arizona’s illegitimate Attorney General Kris Mayes and Secretary of State Adrian Fontes and their ilk across the country will go to any lengths to keep our elections processes broken.”
“Congressman Hamadeh knows firsthand the disconsolateness of tainted election processes and the extent to which that undermines electoral confidence,” said elections attorney Jennifer Wright. “Introducing a bill to codify President Trump’s Executive Order “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections” in advance of the left’s predictable attempt to thwart free and fair elections is the kind of forward thinking I’ve come to expect from Congressman Hamadeh. I look forward to vociferously supporting his bill as it makes its way through Congress. America needs wholesale election reform to restore voter confidence.”
The California-lead coalition’s lawsuit was filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts, in a case of forum shopping which has been frowned upon by the courts in the past.
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The attorneys general asked the court to block the provisions of the Elections Executive Order and declare them unconstitutional and void based on objections to elements of the Executive Order including: forcing the Election Assistance Commission to require documentary proof of citizenship on the Federal mail voter registration form as well as forcing states to alter their ballot counting laws to exclude “absentee or mail-in ballots received after Election Day, and commanding the head of each state-designated Federal voter registration agency to immediately begin “assess[ing] citizenship prior to providing a Federal voter registration form to enrollees of public assistance programs.”
Congressman Hamadeh has argued that Arizonans have been the victims of the mismanagement of voter rolls, failed election infrastructure, and corrupt courts, leading to the destruction of their confidence and faith in our system overall. That is why he took swift action to rebuild citizens’ trust in elections through comprehensive and meaningful election integrity legislation.
By codifying President Trump’s Executive Order 14248, Congressman Hamadeh’s bill would make law an extensive list of necessary measures including government-issued proof of U.S. citizenship, security standards for voting equipment, enforcement of the voter-list maintenance rules, requiring voter-verifiable paper ballots, and prosecuting non-citizen voting and related crimes.
“The American people deserve better. They deserve to know that their legally cast ballot is counted and accounted for. I am disappointed, but obviously not surprised that Mayes and Fontes seek to thwart the implementation of commonsense safeguards of democracy,” concluded Congressman Hamadeh. “As a trusted advisor once said to me, ‘election integrity never disenfranchised a single soul, but a single act of election fraud disenfranchises us all.’”
Congress must codify this executive order and prevent lawfare from obstructing the President’s election integrity agenda.
That’s why Congressman Hamadeh has introduced new legislation.https://t.co/0C6CpAjsD0 https://t.co/lb6ySCnbFz
— Office of Congressman Abe Hamadeh (@RepAbeHamadeh) April 2, 2025
