Sacramento, Calif. – California Secretary of State Shirley N. Weber, Ph.D., issued the following statement in response to President Trump’s executive order entitled “Ensuring Citizenship Verification and Integrity in Federal Elections”:
“The President has not learned his lesson from his first failed executive order that attacked our voting rights. This whole charade is just the latest effort to interfere with our elections.
It is simple: President Trump has ZERO constitutional authority over federal elections. That power rests only with States and Congress, not the executive branch, PERIOD.
This action is blatantly unlawful—unconstitutional and a desperate attempt to interfere with and rig our elections.
California will not stand for it.”