WASHINGTON, April 23 -- Sen. Lisa Blunt Rochester issued the following press release:
Senators Lisa Blunt Rochester and Chris Coons (both D-Del.) joined 38 of their colleagues in introducing the Absentee and Mail Voter Protection Act (Absentee MVP Act) to block President Trump's illegal and unconstitutional executive order (EO) attacking mail and absentee ballots, and to protect the right to vote by mail.
The Absentee MVP Act would nullify President Trump's March 31 EO, or any similar order, that aims to illegally rewrite federal election rules and it would prohibit the U.S. Postal Service (USPS), the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), and any other agency from spending funds to implement actions in the president's unconstitutional EO...