COVID-19 Summary: This is an action seeking to enjoin California from enforcing EO N-64-20, which allowed Californians to vote by mail in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. No outcome yet.
On May 24, 2020, the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Congressional ...
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COVID-19 Summary: This is an action seeking to enjoin California from enforcing EO N-64-20, which allowed Californians to vote by mail in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. No outcome yet.
On May 24, 2020, the Republican National Committee, the National Republican Congressional Committee, and the California Republican Party filed this action in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of California. Represented by private counsel, the plaintiffs sued the governor and secretary of state of California under 42 U.S.C. § 1983, alleging violations of the Fourteenth Amendment and the Electors and Elections Clauses. Specifically, the plaintiffs challenged the governor's EO N-64-20, which allowed Californians to vote by mail to preserve the public health, arguing that the changing the "time, place, and manner in which Californians" vote was unconstitutional.
The case was initially assigned to Judge Kimberly J. Mueller, but was reassigned to Judge Morrison C. England, Jr. because it was related to another case filed a few days earlier by California voters,
VR-CA-0169 in the Clearinghouse.
The case is ongoing.
Caitlin Kierum - 06/03/2020
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