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https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/judge-tosses-citizenship-provisions-in-trump-elections-order-5.jpg?resize=505,337 505w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/judge-tosses-citizenship-provisions-in-trump-elections-order-5.jpg?resize=1012,675 1012w, https:\/\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/judge-tosses-citizenship-provisions-in-trump-elections-order-5.jpg?resize=1263,843 1263w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1012px) 100vw, 1012px\"><figcaption> (Getty Images) <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/header>\n<div class=\"single-article__content\">\n<div class=\"single-article__content-inner has-drop-cap\"> <html readability=\"57.516086885514\"><body readability=\"116.03050969131\"><\/p>\n<p>A federal court partially blocked a Trump administration executive order Thursday <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/trump-election-executive-order-sparks-backlash-from-critics\/\">that seeks to impose requirements<\/a> on states to use the White House\u2019s definition of \u201cdocumentary proof\u201d of citizenship, inhibit mail voting and other election-related elements by threatening to withhold federal funding. <\/p>\n<p>The order was subject to multiple lawsuits from <a href=\"https:\/\/cyberscoop.com\/democratic-groups-challenge-trump-election-order\/\">Democratic Party organizations<\/a> as well as civic groups like the League of United Latin American Citizens, the League of Women Voters of the United States, the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People and others.<\/p>\n<p>In a three-page <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.279032\/gov.uscourts.dcd.279032.103.0.pdf\">order<\/a> issued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly granted the parties partial relief from the order, blocking the Election Assistance Commission from altering federal voter registration forms to include a proof of citizenship section. That would have required voters to present one of several forms of identification \u2014 including REAL ID, a valid passport or state-based ID forms that specify citizenship status.<\/p>\n<p>Kollar-Kotelly also struck down provisions challenged by Democrats to prevent federal agencies from denying or refusing to send federal voter registration forms to voters.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Constitution explicitly empowers states \u2014 and, to a lesser extent, Congress \u2014 to set rules around elections, with no mention of a role for the executive branch. States also verify citizenship when residents get their driver\u2019s license and other forms of ID.<\/p>\n<p>Moreover, federal law already prohibits noncitizens from voting, and post-election audits across numerous states have found that the number of noncitizens registered to vote are often in the double digits, or at most several hundred out of hundreds of thousands or millions of registered voters. Of those noncitizens that are registered, a tiny fraction have actually cast a vote.<\/p>\n<p>In her <a href=\"https:\/\/ecf.dcd.uscourts.gov\/cgi-bin\/show_public_doc?2025cv0946-104\">opinion<\/a>, Kollar-Kotelly said the questions at hand were not about the wisdom behind the executive order, but strictly about the executive branch and the White House\u2019s authority to set election rules under the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe many defendants in these consolidated cases \u2014 federal officers and agencies \u2014 say little about that question,\u201d she wrote. \u201cThey have offered almost no defense of the President\u2019s order on the merits. Instead, they argue that these suits have been brought by the wrong plaintiffs at the wrong time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When reached for comment, White House spokesperson Harrison Fields indicated that the administration will appeal the ruling.<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump will keep fighting for election integrity, despite Democrat objections that reveal their disdain for commonsense safeguards like verifying citizenship,\u201d Fields said in a statement. \u201cFree and fair elections are the bedrock of our Constitutional Republic, and we\u2019re confident in securing an ultimate victory in the courtroom.\u201d <\/p>\n<p>Kollar-Kotelly also expressed the belief that the plaintiffs \u201care substantially likely to prevail\u201d in their case on the merits, at least with respect to the citizenship provisions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCongress is currently debating legislation that would [affect] many of the changes the President purports to order. And no statutory delegation of authority to the Executive Branch permits the President to short-circuit Congress\u2019s deliberative process by executive order,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>However, Kollar-Kotelly denied requests to block federal agencies from sharing federal data and seeking access to state-level databases on voters to cross-check citizenship. The court also declined requests to block federal officials from including absentee and mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day, and a provision that would seek to condition EAC funding on making Election Day the final day to accept any form of ballots.<\/p>\n<p>That provision, however, specifies that agencies can only do so in accordance with Title 52, a section of U.S. law that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.govinfo.gov\/content\/pkg\/USCODE-2023-title52\/pdf\/USCODE-2023-title52-subtitleII-chap209-subchapII-partD-subpart1.pdf\">includes a passage<\/a> specifying that \u201cadoption of [EAC] guidelines and guidance [are] not required to receive payment\u201d and that \u201cnothing in this subpart may be construed to require a State to implement any of the voluntary voting system guidelines or any of the voluntary guidance adopted by the [EAC] with respect to any matter as a condition for receiving a requirements payment.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"ad ad--inline_1 \">\n<div class=\"ad__inner\"> <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Advertisement<\/span> <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Meanwhile, the plaintiffs in this case have argued that millions of eligible voters lack the forms of ID specified by the Trump administration\u2019s order.<\/p>\n<p>Kollar-Kotelly did not rule against the plaintiff\u2019s requests on the merits, but rather felt they were not best positioned to legally challenge those provisions.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOn the present record, challenges to those provisions are premature or properly presented not by these plaintiffs but by the States themselves. In fact, many States are already bringing those challenges elsewhere,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n<p>Samantha Tarazi, chief operating officer and co-founder of Voting Rights Lab, argued that the White House order was not designed to surmount court challenges, but rather to intimidate states into complying with federal preferences and inject uncertainty into their prospects for federal funding.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo President Trump, whether the executive order would survive legal scrutiny was beside the point,\u201d Tarazi said in a statement. \u201cThe goal was to send a clear directive to his allies in the states \u2014 and in Congress \u2014 outlining precisely how the president wants them to change their laws, and they are already following his marching orders.\u201c<\/p>\n<p><\/body> <\/p>\n<footer class=\"single-article__footer\" readability=\"3.5563636363636\">\n<div class=\"author-card\" readability=\"13\">\n<div class=\"author-card__avatar\">\n<figure class=\"author-card__image-wrap\"> <img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"author-card__image\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/ddi.mohflo.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/judge-tosses-citizenship-provisions-in-trump-elections-order-1.jpg?w=640&ssl=1\" alt=\"Derek B. 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