First appearance on Fox: A group of Pennsylvania state legislators has fought for the right to sue President Biden’s Election Executive Order (EO) in the Supreme Court.
In a petition for writ of particulars filed Tuesday after a lower court ruled that They are asking the High Court to grant them status in a lawsuit challenging Presidential Decree No. 14019 of March 2021. They lacked position.
The Republican group is essentially an executive vote-getting operation targeting key demographics to benefit the president’s party and his own re-election, something Congress has never done before and is unconstitutional. He filed a lawsuit challenging the presidential election. He enacted a law authorizing such actions from the Oval Office.
In a petition filed Tuesday, they asked the court to take an opinion and to “prevent federal and state executive authorities from usurping Pennsylvania law under the Elections Clause and the Elections Clause” for the 2024 election. He said he could not “do his part by filing a lawsuit to do so.” However, the Electoral Clause does not apply unless the courts do their part and declare individual state legislators to join the action. ”
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A group of Pennsylvania state legislators is fighting for the right to sue the Supreme Court over President Biden’s election executive orders. (Paul J. Richards/AFP via Getty Images)
The Elections Clause provides that “the times, places, and manner of holding elections for senators and representatives shall be prescribed by the legislature of each state.”
The Electors Clause states, “Each State shall appoint in such manner as the Legislature may direct a number of Electors equal to the total number of Senators and Representatives to which that State is entitled in Congress.” ing.
“As the court stated, when a case involves a federal election, ‘the need for review is heightened.’ [e]The petition states that elections “have the most fundamental significance under our country’s constitutional structure.”
Biden Executive Order 14019 requires “executive agencies” to “work with state, local, tribal, and territorial election officials to protect and facilitate the exercise of the right to vote and eliminate discrimination and other barriers to voting. “and expand access to voters.” Registration and accurate election information. ”
The Keystone state lawmaker’s attorney, Eric Kardal, argued in a legal filing that the executive order, among other things, directs the Department of Health and Human Services to facilitate voter registration. The Department of Housing and Urban Development will direct more than 3,000 public housing authorities to facilitate the registration of these units. The Ministry of Education will encourage state schools to register students. The U.S. Department of Agriculture then issued a letter to state agencies that administer the SNAP and WIC programs directing them to use federal funds to conduct voter registration efforts.
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“Individual legislators have the right to uphold their ‘constitutional obligation to develop the rules governing federal elections,'” the petition states. “Members of the executive branch should not be allowed to strip state legislatures of their constitutional right to represent the people.”
This deprivation of constitutional rights refers to Biden’s executive order, which lawmakers say denies them the constitutional right to oversee and participate in legislative decisions regulating federal elections. is mentioned.
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President Biden signs an executive order in the East Room of the White House on Monday, October 30, 2023. (Photo by Demetrius Freeman/Washington Post via Getty Images)
“This is the most serious legal issue in this country,” said the Foundation for Government Accountability (FGA), which filed an amicus brief in the case in lower courts.
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“The outcome of this case could determine who holds the White House,” Stewart Whitson, FGA’s senior director of federal affairs, told Fox News Digital.
The Supreme Court receives approximately 8,000 petitions a year and grants approximately 80 of them.
The Justice Department and the White House did not immediately respond to FOX News Digital’s requests for comment.
