Republican National Committee Chair Michael Whatley said Tuesday his organization is intervening in litigation involving a March executive order by President Donald Trump that seeks, among other things, to enhance voter citizenship verification and ban foreign nationals from interfering in U.S. elections.

“Leftist groups are attacking President Trump’s election integrity Executive Order,” Whatley wrote in a post on X. “We need protections like proof of citizenship, clean voter rolls, and ensuring ballots are received by Election Day. The RNC is intervening to make sure it is easier to vote and harder to cheat.”

The RNC filed a motion to intervene Tuesday in U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia in support of the executive order that is being challenged in a lawsuit brought by the Democratic Governors Association, the Democratic Party, the Democrats’ campaign committees in the Senate and House, Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., and House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries, D-N.Y.

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