Posted on 04/25/2025 3:15:26 AM PDT by Libloather
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Thursday blocked a portion of President Donald Trump’s executive order on election integrity, specifically provisions related to providing documentary proof of citizenship before being allowed to register to vote.
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia handed down the order in response to lawsuits filed by three separate groups of plaintiffs over five different provisions in a March 25 Trump executive order relating to election integrity.
While Kollar-Kotelly dismissed requests to block three of the provisions, requests to block two other provisions pertaining to a proof of citizenship requirement for voters were granted.
The first blocked provision sought to compel the Election Assistance Commission to amend standardized national voter registration forms to require documentary proof of citizenship.
The second sought to require federal agencies offering voter registration to people on public assistance to “assess” the individual’s citizenship status before doing so.
“Our Constitution entrusts Congress and the States — not the President — with the authority to regulate federal elections. Consistent with that allocation of power, Congress is currently debating legislation that would effect many of the changes the President purports to order,” Kollar-Kotelly, a Clinton-appointee, wrote in her order.
“No statutory delegation of authority to the Executive Branch permits the President to short-circuit Congress’s deliberative process by executive order.”
Kollar-Kotelly said she would not block the other provisions that the groups sought to challenge, which cover mail-in ballots and data collection on citizenship status, calling the challenges “premature” and indicating they would be best challenged at the state level.
Earlier this month, the Republican-led House of Representatives passed a bill requiring proof-of-citizenship to vote in federal elections.
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Sadly, that is how the “Scotus Ladies” act.
These judges are traitors.
They need to go!!!!!
Trump staff needs to get control of NSA and FBI, etc data...find the dirty laundry/blackmail data the Dems use to force members to vote in a solid block on everything, and use the data to arrest the corrupt (like there is such a thing as a non-corrupt?) Dem and RINO’s. Do same of the fake judges that the Dems installed.
Best joke I’ve heard today 🤣🤣🤣 Congress doing their job...you’re killing me 🤣🤣🤣
Saw this the other day…..
Of first 110 days of Congress,
they were off 85 days.
They need to go!!!!!
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I SO agree!!!!!
If the Feds had no role in voting whatsoever, the 15th Amendment would not have come about.
I would argue my civil rights are being violated when illegals in another state are flagrantly allowed to vote for the President and Congressmen.
You can argue that.
But the moment you do, it ceases to become a case of election law. The Constitution says States get to decide how elections within that state take place. To argue your case that another state’s election laws are violating your civil rights in a different state turns it into a civil case rather than a case about election law.
The good news is that if some State decides to allow illegals to vote, then it will affect that states representation. Next thing you know illegals will comprise that State’s government. Then maybe they will vote to leave the US.
All of which will be court cases that are not about election law
I must be living in the bizzaro world, cause anything common sense is ruled against by some federal judge!
He is addressing WHO can vote in US elections.
ONLY US CITIZENS.
“Yep. Trump is starting to look ineffective and weak, not a good look.”
Yeah, sure, whatever you say!
Congress is a lost cause. They never, ever step up and do the right thing. Congress should already have passed legislation restricting the lower courts power to issue national injunctions. Its never going to happen.
The only thing they ever pass is an annual continuing resolution that lifts the debt ceiling. I can’t even remember the last time they passed a real budget which they are supposed to do.
I thought PAM Bondie was the el supremo federal judge. She should shut these people down… silly me for expecting justice.
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