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The DOJ filed court documents defending Trump's executive order restricting mail-in voting as a limited measure. Critics argue the ban will disenfranchise millions of voters and contradict established voting access protections.
The DOJ filed court papers arguing Trump's executive order restricting mail-in voting is actually a limited measure. Voting rights lawyers fired back that the ban will disenfranchise millions of people and contradict the voting access protections already on the books.
This is a meaningful disagreement about what counts as "modest." The DOJ is trying to get courts to see the order as narrow and reasonable. Critics are saying that framing ignores the actual impact on voters in practice. When federal lawyers argue that something affecting millions of voters is "modest," they're essentially asking courts to adopt a particular definition of scale—one that judges the impact by intent rather than effect. That's a legal framework courts will have to explicitly accept or reject.
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