Posted on 11/01/2025 8:52:51 AM PDT by Signalman
A federal judge ruled Friday that President Donald Trump’s request to add a documentary proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form cannot be enforced.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, a Clinton appointee, sided with left-wing and “civil rights” groups that had sued the Trump Administration over his executive order aimed at bolstering election integrity.
The order, titled “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections,” directs federal agencies like the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), Social Security Administration (SSA), and Department of State to provide states access to federal databases to verify voter eligibility and citizenship during registration. Agencies under the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) are also required to assess citizenship before distributing federal voter registration forms to public assistance enrollees.
In order to do so, the order mandates documentary proof of U.S. citizenship for voter registration in federal elections. In order to do so, the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) was directed to update the national mail voter registration form to require proof, such as a passport, birth certificate, or Real ID-compliant driver’s license.
States that fail to comply with the directive would be at risk of losing federal funding, the order states.
The order has been met with several legal challenges from left-wing groups, including the Democratic National Committee (DNC) and attorneys general from 19 Democrat-controlled states.
On Friday, Judge Kollar-Kotelly ruled that the proof of citizenship directive is an unconstitutional violation of separation of powers. “Because our Constitution assigns responsibility for election regulation to the States and to Congress, this Court holds that the President lacks the authority to direct such changes,” Kollar-Kotelly wrote in her opinion.
She further ruled that on matters related to setting qualifications for voting and regulating federal election procedures “the Constitution assigns no direct role to the President in either domain.”
The latest opinion echoes comments made by the judge when she issued a preliminary injunction against voter ID provisions back in April. “Consistent with that allocation of power, Congress is currently debating legislation that would affect many of the changes the President purports to order,” the Clinton-appointed judge found at the time. “No statutory delegation of authority to the Executive Branch permits the President to short-circuit Congress’s deliberative process by executive order.”
Friday’s decision grants the plaintiffs a partial summary judgment that prohibits the proof of citizenship provision from going into effect. It also permanently bars the U.S. Election Assistance Commission from adding the requirement to the federal voting form.
Both voter ID and bolstering noncitizen voting enforcement have long been popular policy positions among voters. According to a poll from Gallup taken just before the 2024 presidential election, 84 percent of U.S. adults were in favor of requiring voters to show identification while 83 percent supported requiring proof of citizenship when registering for the first time.
Such policies are also popular along party lines, with 67 percent of Democrats and 84 percent of independents expressing support for mandatory voter ID. Among Republicans support is near unanimous, with 98 percent of respondents expressing support.
The breakdown on proof of citizenship requirements was similar, with 66 percent of Democrats, 84 percent of Independents and 96 percent of Republicans supporting the idea.
Action on election integrity and voter ID laws in particular have long been a focus of President Trump’s agenda. “The system, it’s not a question of being broken — the system is corrupt,” Trump told Breitbart News back in August.
“It’s a corrupt system. A mail-in ballot will always be corrupt. When you go to a polling location and they want your identification and everything, the way — you can’t really vote unless it’s a legit deal. If you have mail-in ballots, nobody has any idea where it’s coming from or where it’s going to and then it travels through so many hands. Jimmy Carter came out a long time ago with a number of highly respected people and they wrote something, and the one thing that come out loud and clear is that mail-in ballots are corrupt. France had it, a lot of countries had it and they went away from it now.”
This is grounds for impeachment, not that I think it will happen.
Just another reason to totally defund our useless Congre$$ and Supreme Clowns of the US.
After the election, as intended.
At least for federal elections there is a need for standardized voting across states. Can’t have one state allow 12 year olds to vote while another says one must be 21 or one state to say your vote counts more depending on how many elections you have voted in.
Anyway, it should be clear that to vote in the US elections, you should be a US citizen.
OK. Just reject the electors from states that do not check citizenship of those on voting rolls or don’t verify ID of voters. Yes they can vote, but their votes should invalidate the vote count in that state.
So we’re not allowed to have a legitimate country anymore, with borders and authentic and certifiable voting laws?
How utterly ridiculous can she get?
there are some communist type judges that need to be retired ASAP if USA is to have chance of returning to a lawful society with individual liberties as envisoned by our US Constitution
Yes... in order to steal the mid-terms.
100% correct.
Pronto.
Pronto.
Correct.
How many American citizens actually know of this action by this leftist liberal judge??? You will never hear of this happening on the news networks or from the Lame Stream Media...
Leftist communists are controlling our country and people just don’t realize it...
One thing the “tear America’s down” crowd has no shortage of is raw brass, arrogance, chutzpah
They also stick together tight like a flying wedge battle assault
The Dems don’t even try to hide the fact that they want foreigners voting in our elections in order to keep *them* in power. Most of these foreigners hate our country and will be glad to vote for the most destructive candidates.
Oh Look
The Imperious Colleen rears her aging Baby Boomer head again
Funny how it’s the same cast of grungy, prune faced characters over and over again waving their magic gavels pretending to be President
LOL!
Your 100% right of course. However Congress has been broken for decades and only constitutional amendments can fix it. So...
Hypocrisy much?
A functional Congress would fire them.
Since California and New York have been handing out Real ID CDL’s to illegals like door prizes at a birthday party, why should any rational human being accept a Real ID as any kind of verification of anything?
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