General Discussion

...the March, 2025 EO that was struck down.
( https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/03/preserving-and-protecting-the-integrity-of-american-elections/ )

That order sought to directly alter both the manner and times of state's elections. This was clearly unconstitutional.

This new order is written in a way that dances around the edge of that. It does not direct states to alter their elections per se at all, but to adhere to an envelope standard for mail-in ballots and to provide information to the federal government.

As I said, I can see a world in which the SCOTUS rules that these things to do not infringe on the "Times, Places and Manner of holding Elections" as outlined in the Constitution.

I believe the March, 2025 order was certainly his "way of trying to rally his own base by testing their populist beliefs against truth and of trying to justify the fit he threw when Pennsylvania persisted in counting mail-in ballots after the polls closed"--as that EO was in-part directly aimed at the counting of ballots after the polls closed--but I think this one goes much broader than that grudge.

They've had a whole year to think about this one after knowing that the first one was likely to be struck down....