A bid by President Joe Biden, Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro, and the commonwealth’s leading election officials to unilaterally change election procedures without legislative approval violates the U.S. Constitution and state law, a new lawsuit says.
Filed on Thursday by several Pennsylvania legislators in the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania, the suit alleges that the aforementioned entities violated America’s founding document and state law by excluding the Keystone State’s legislature from the “law-making process regulating federal elections for President and Congress.” Al Schmidt and Jonathan Marks, Pennsylvania’s secretary of the commonwealth and deputy secretary for elections and commissions, respectively, are also named defendants in the suit.
Plaintiffs specifically took issue with Executive Order 14019, a directive signed by Biden in March 2021 mandating hundreds of federal departments interfere in the electoral process by using U.S. taxpayer money to boost voter registration and get-out-the-vote activities. That order also required the heads of federal departments to draft “a strategic plan” explaining how their agencies intended to fulfill Biden’s directive.
While the Biden administration has routinely stonewalled efforts by good government groups to acquire these plans by slow-walking its response to federal court orders and heavily redacting any related documents that are released, available information indicates a partisan venture aimed at registering likely-Democrat voters. As The Daily Signal’s Fred Lucas reported, for example, many of the supposedly “nonpartisan” third-party organizations that agencies are required to collaborate with to register voters are extremely left-wing, including the ACLU and Demos.
In their lawsuit, plaintiffs argued that Biden’s executive
