LaRose announces victory with challenge to Biden administration’s use of federal agencies to engage in partisan politics

Ohio Secretary of State Frank LaRose announced this week a major victory in a challenge to the Biden administration’s use of federal government agencies to engage in partisan political activity.
 
“I’m grateful to announce we’ve filed a motion to dismiss our lawsuit because the Trump administration has repealed the unlawful and unconstitutional executive order that prompted it,” said Secretary LaRose. 

“We stood up to the left’s appalling abuse of power, and we won.”
 
LaRose joined a federal lawsuit last July filed by the America First Policy Institute against President Joe Biden’s Executive Order (EO) 14019, which attempted to institute an all-of-government approach to use federal government agencies to register and mobilize as many as 3.5 million new voters before the 2024 election. 

Then-President Biden ordered federal agencies to identify and partner with third-party voter registration groups selected only by his administration, conducting listening sessions on how to implement the order with left-wing activist groups, such as ACLU, the Southern Poverty Law Center, Dēmos, and the Brennan Center for Justice.
 
“Fortunately, the American people saw this for what it is, as one of the many outrageous attempts to use government resources as a weapon against political opponents,” said Secretary LaRose. “They rightfully fired the people responsible, including the president and vice president, and now President Trump is reversing these terrible decisions.”
 
Separately, Secretary LaRose continues to lead on election integrity issues involving the federal government, especially focused on negotiations with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to resolve a legal challenge seeking to expand state access to federal citizenship records.