Federal Judge Permanently Blocks Executive Order Requiring Proof of Citizenship to Vote

On Wednesday, a federal judge permanently blocked the Trump administration from enforcing an executive order (EO) signed last year that required proof of citizenship to register to vote and demanded mail-in ballots be received by Election Day. The decision is more than a year in the making, with a group of state attorneys general filing a lawsuit in Boston last April to block Trump's first EO on voting.

Judge Denise Casper ruled that the president lacks the authority to oversee elections and rejected the Trump administration's unsupported claims of "widespread illegal voting, discrimination, fraud and other forms of malfeasance and error."

"While the Constitution vests the President with 'executive power' and commands him to 'take care that the laws be faithfully executed,' it does not grant the President any specific powers over elections," Casper wrote.

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