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The presidential election of 2024 is on the horizon, and while the chaotic aftermath of 2020 is firmly in the rearview mirror for most Americans, some proponents of election integrity are concerned about the effects that a 2021 executive order signed by Joe Biden could have on November’s pivotal Election Day.
EO 14019 was signed on March 7, 2021, by Joe Biden, and is described by the White House as an EO aimed at “Promoting Access to Voting,” but Biden’s critics say that the underlying goal of this order is to utilize federal power to implement a Democrat “get out the vote” effort.
Turning Point USA President Charlie Kirk described it as “Zuckerbucks X 1,000,” referencing Meta founder and owner Mark Zuckerburg’s move to funnel millions of dollars into the election processes of key battleground states in 2020.
The practice of sending private money to states like Wisconsin has been highly criticized by many. In the Badger State, citizens recently voted to ban out-of-state dark money influence as a direct result of people like Zuckerberg, who utilized a non-profit (CTCL) to pour money into counties across Wisconsin in 2020.
Joe Biden’s federal executive order is far broader than anything Zuckerberg could have achieved. It utilizes the power of the federal apparatus to “promote voter registration and voter participation” on websites, social media, and “other points of public access.”
The EO purports to direct the solicitation and facilitation of expanding access to “multilingual voter registration and election information, and to promote equal participation in the electoral process for all eligible citizens of all backgrounds…”
In sum, the EO utilizes federal power to facilitate a national voting push, which could be construed as a constitutional violation. Case in point, The Federalist revealed that a petition for certiorari has been filed by Pennsylvania lawmakers with the U.S. Supreme Court.
They allege that EO 14019 is, indeed, unconstitutional in that it “nullifies the votes of the individual legislators, nullifies the enactment of the Legislature, violates the Electors Clause, violates the Elections Clause, deprives the legislators of their particular rights, and jeopardizes candidates’ rights to an election free from fraud and abuse.”
Plaintiffs in this filing are asking SCOTUS to determine “whether individual lawmakers have the right to take such claims of federal executive branch incursions on legislative duty to court,” via The Federalist.
Charlie Kirk described the executive order as a tool to turn the “six trillion dollar federal government, with its 600 separate agencies, into a GOTV machine for his campaign [Biden].”
He wrote:
“This is totally illegal and a multi-trillion dollar advantage for Joe Biden ahead of November. This needs to be stopped in the court. It’s currently being challenged in PA in what people connected to the case are telling me is the most important election integrity lawsuit in the country. SCOTUS might hear the case. It could be stopped by Congress, too — if Republicans in Congress ever actually forced concessions from Biden instead of just surrendering.”
The chances that Americans are even aware that Biden signed such a broad-brush executive order in 2021, just two months after taking office, are slim, but the far-reaching ramifications are now becoming apparent three years later.
Kirk warned, “Joe Biden and his campaign are ‘increasingly confident’ they will win, despite bad polling and collapsing approval numbers. Maybe this is why? If we lose in November, it very well could be because of this.”
