MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers today announced Wisconsin is joining a new multi-state lawsuit in response to President Donald J. Trump’s latest executive order directing the U.S. Department of Homeland Security to force states to use a nationwide list of voters provided by the Trump Administration, further suppressing the rights of voters, undermining democracy, and sowing distrust in Wisconsin’s fair, safe, and secure elections.

“Thanks to Wisconsin’s dedicated clerks, election administrators, and poll workers, our state’s elections are safe, free, and secure—and we want to keep them that way. In America, states run our elections, not the president, and the president cannot just wake up one morning and decide to rewrite our laws because he doesn’t like them—that’s not how laws work in this country,” said Gov. Evers. “I was clear from the get-go we’d sue President Trump over this illegal order that tries to radically change our elections and potentially disenfranchise millions of eligible voters, and we’re delivering on that promise today.”

Earlier this week, Gov. Evers promised to bring this issue to court in a statement following the announcement of the president’s executive order, stating the president’s order to undermine and interfere with Wisconsin’s safe and secure elections was “bullshit” and “illegal.”

This latest lawsuit comes as President Trump and the Trump Administration have continuously spread disinformation about Trump’s election loss in 2020, including about Wisconsin’s elections, despite numerous lawsuits, audits, and investigations that have confirmed the accuracy and outcome of the election.

A copy of the lawsuit filing is available here.