Hansi Lo Wong

Anzila Wong, NPR News.

According to the Constitution, rules for voting by mail are set by state lawmakers and Congress.

by President Trump's new executive order is testing the limits of his power.

And it's citing Trump and his aides said it calls for his administration to create a list of U.S.

citizens eligible to vote in each state and for states to send and the U.S.

Postal Service to deliver mail-in ballots only to the people on that list.

It's not clear whether and how Trump's order would be carried out.

Voting rights groups have been preparing to file lawsuits to challenge this order.

Article 1 of the Constitution gives state legislatures, not the president, the power to regulate the times, places, and manner of holding federal elections.

and Congress can alter those election rules.

A Trump-backed bill that would overhaul voting is currently stuck in the Senate.

Hansi Luwong, NPR News, Washington.

The Census Bureau plans to prepare for the 2030 count by asking households in parts of Alabama and South Carolina to fill out an unrelated online survey starting this April.

The form asks, is this person a citizen of the United States?

Which the Bureau's research shows is likely to hurt the accuracy of numbers used to redistribute political representation and federal funding.

In a letter citing NPR's reporting, Representative Robert Garcia of California leads 90 House Democrats in calling for the Trump administration to change its 2026 census test plans.

That call comes as the administration signals in a filing for a census lawsuit that it may soon formally propose to exclude U.S.

residents without legal status from counts that the 14th Amendment says must include the, quote, whole number of persons in each state.

Anzi Luang, NPR News.

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