AG Nick Brown statement on SCOTUS allowing Trump’s illegal mail-in voting order to be implemented as lawsuit proceeds

Attorney General Nick Brown released the following statement in response to today's U.S. Supreme Court action allowing the president's unconstitutional executive order attacking mail-in voting to proceed for now. The court's order puts on hold an injunction granted in June in a lawsuit brought by Washington as part of a multistate coalition opposed to the president's extraordinary overreach:

"A majority of the U.S. Supreme Court does not seem to recognize the grave threat the president's actions pose for our democracy. There is nothing hypothetical about his intent to illegally suppress legitimate votes.

"Fortunately, today's decision does not bless the substance of the president's actions, it simply says states must wait slightly longer to challenge them. We stand ready to take action to protect the integrity of our elections and prevent this clearly unconstitutional overreach from taking effect.

"States control elections, not the president."

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