Trump launches new ‘lawless’ attack on voting rights

President Donald Trump escalated his assault on democracy Tuesday, signing a sweeping—and, according to experts, unconstitutional—executive order that would block millions of U.S. citizens from voting.

The order, titled “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections,” threatens to withhold federal grant money to force states to comply with voter suppression tactics that are already in effect in many red states.

The order comes one day after interim D.C. U.S. Attorney...