Democratic governors react to Supreme Court ruling on mail-in voting: 'States run elections, not Donald Trump'
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Comments: by Sarah Davis - 08/25/26 11:22 AM ET Comments: Link copied by Sarah Davis - 08/25/26 11:22 AM ET Comments: Link copied NOW PLAYING Democratic governors are expressing their dissatisfaction with the Supreme Court’s Monday decision to lift a lower court’s block on the Trump administration’s executive order restricting mail-in ballot voting.
New Jersey Gov. Mikie Sherrill criticized the move as a “terrible decision” in a social media post .
“States run elections, not Donald Trump,” she wrote. “I will do everything I can to protect New Jerseyans’ right to vote — by mail and in person.”
Twenty-three Democrat-led states and the District of Columbia sued the administration shortly after President Trump directed federal agencies to create “state citizenship lists” of eligible voters and instructed the U.S. Postal Service not to mail ballots on behalf of anyone who did not appear on the list.
The court’s conservative justices found in an emergency opinion that the states sued too early and that the administration could proceed with planning for restrictions on mail-in ballot voting while a lower court weighs the legality of these new guidelines.
The three justices in the court’s liberal minority said they would have kept the lower court’s hold in place, with Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson calling the majority’s ruling a “ Kafkaesque nightmare .”
California Gov. Gavin Newsom (D), whose state attorney general’s office led the lawsuit against the Trump administration’s executive order, slammed the high court’s decision.
“WOW. The Supreme Court just let the Trump Admin move ahead (for now) with its plan to disenfranchise voters across the country,” Newsom wrote on social media . “California will be suing AGAIN to block these Orwellian rules from being implemented.”
Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro (D) wrote in a statement shared on social media that his state would also “see the Trump Administration in court.”
“In the meantime, I’ll keep defending Pennsylvanians’ right to free, fair, and secure elections,” he added.
Connecticut’s own Democratic governor, Ned Lamont, called the high court’s decision “disappointing,” but he stressed that it was “not the end of the story.”
“SCOTUS allowed the Trump Administration to begin planning for the executive order, but it did not rule on whether carrying it out would be lawful,” he wrote in a social media post .
“While the court defers that decision for another day, Connecticut will continue to defend the safe, secure, and accessible elections we hold in this state — including mail-in ballots,” he continued. “We are not handing over control of our elections to the Trump Administration, and Donald Trump’s ongoing campaign of spreading misinformation to undermine public trust in our elections will not succeed.”
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