Judge Halts Trump's Anti-Voting Executive Order

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These executive orders were clearly void
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A federal judge in Washington, D.C., Thursday blocked federal agencies from carrying out parts of President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order on elections.

The Democratic Party, the League of United Latin American Citizens, the League of Women Voters Education Fund and others are challenging Trump’s order as an unprecedented assault on states’ constitutional authority to run their own elections.

District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, appointed by former President Bill Clinton, granted the groups’ request for a preliminary injunction against several parts of Trump’s order but allowed other provisions to remain in effect.

Among its many changes, Trump’s order directed the U.S. Election Assistance Commission (EAC) — an independent bipartisan agency — to change a federal voter registration form to require eligible voters to show proof of citizenship.

The requirement would bar millions of voters who lack easy access to citizenship documents from using the National Mail Voter Registration Form and could force states to rapidly shift their registration procedures. If states don’t or can’t comply, Trump’s order directs the EAC to punish them by withholding federal funding.

Judge Kollar-Kotelly said EAC commissioners and other senior commission officials are barred from taking steps to add a proof of citizenship requirement to the form.

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1. Here is the ruling

trump' executive orders on voting were clearly void. Here is just the first ruling on these executive order

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• The LULAC Plaintiffs’ and League Plaintiffs’ Joint [34] Motion and the Democratic Party
Plaintiffs’ [53] Motion are both GRANTED as to Section 2(a) of Executive Order 14,248.
Defendants U.S. Election Assistance Commission (“EAC”); Donald L. Palmer in his
official capacity as Chairman and Commissioner of the EAC; Thomas Hicks, Benjamin W.
Hovland, and Christy McCormick, in their official capacities as Commissioners of the
EAC; and Brianna Schletz, in her official capacity as Executive Director of the EAC, are
PRELIMINARILY ENJOINED from taking any action to implement or give effect to
Section 2(a) of Executive Order 14,248, including taking any action based on the Executive
Order to modify the content of the federal voter registration application form described in
52 U.S.C. § 20508(a)(2) to require documentary proof of United States citizenship.

• The Democratic Party Plaintiffs’ Motion is GRANTED as to Section 2(d) of Executive
Order 14,248. Defendants Department of Defense, Department of Veterans Affairs,
Department of the Interior, Small Business Administration, Peter Hegseth in his official
capacity as Secretary of Defense, Douglas Collins in his official capacity as Secretary of
Veterans Affairs, Douglas Burgum in his official capacity as Secretary of the Interior, and
Kelly Loeffler in her official capacity as Small Business Administrator, are
PRELIMINARILY ENJOINED from taking any action to implement or give effect to
Section 2(d) of Executive Order 14,248, including failing to provide the federal voter
registration application form described in 52 U.S.C. § 20508(a)(2) or an equivalent form
to any applicant for service or assistance based on an inability to “assess citizenship.”