{"id":373252,"date":"2026-06-24T17:35:28","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/373252\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T17:35:28","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T17:35:28","slug":"judge-permanently-blocks-trump-administration-election-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/373252\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge permanently blocks Trump administration election order"},"content":{"rendered":"

A federal judge on Wednesday permanently barred President Donald Trump\u2019s administration from implementing most of his first\u00a0executive order<\/a>\u00a0on elections, part of which sought to require people to show documentary proof of citizenship when they register to vote.<\/p>\n

The ruling by U.S. District Court Judge Denise Casper in Boston effectively converts a preliminary injunction she issued a year ago, in which she temporarily\u00a0blocked many of Trump\u2019s efforts<\/a>\u00a0to overhaul elections, into a permanent ban.<\/p>\n

Casper rejected the administration\u2019s argument that the lawsuit to block the changes\u00a0brought by Democratic state attorneys general<\/a>\u00a0was premature because the rules had yet to be implemented. Instead, she agreed that the Constitution gives states and Congress the authority to regulate elections, and that Trump\u2019s requirements violated the separation of powers.<\/p>\n

The Constitution \u201cdoes not grant the President any specific powers over elections,\u201d she wrote.<\/p>\n

Among other proposed changes,\u00a0Trump\u2019s order<\/a>\u00a0would have required people to provide\u00a0documentary proof of citizenship<\/a>\u00a0when registering to vote, prevented mail ballots from being counted if they arrive after Election Day, even if they were postmarked by then, and punished states that failed to comply by withholding certain federal money.<\/p>\n

It was the latest in a string of rulings against the elections executive order Trump signed just months after taking office for his second term. He has since signed\u00a0another executive order on elections<\/a>, seeking to create a national voter list and limit mail balloting. That directive also faces multiple legal challenges.<\/p>\n

Last fall, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., overseeing\u00a0a separate challenge<\/a>\u00a0to the first election executive order by civil rights and Democratic Party-aligned groups\u00a0blocked the government<\/a>\u00a0from taking steps to include the proof-of-citizenship requirement on the federal voter registration form. That judge later\u00a0barred the Secretary of Defense<\/a>\u00a0from requiring documentary proof of citizenship when military personnel register to vote or request ballots.<\/p>\n

In an apparent nod to the difficulty of implementing a proof-of-citizen requirement by executive order, Trump is\u00a0pushing legislation<\/a>\u00a0in the Republican-controlled Congress to create such a mandate. The SAVE America Act has passed the House but has stalled\u00a0in the Senate<\/a>, leading Trump to advocate for eliminating the filibuster that is blocking the legislation.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, he\u00a0abruptly cancelled<\/a>\u00a0the expected signing of a bipartisan housing bill, saying he won\u2019t sign legislation until Congress passes his proof of citizenship requirement for voting.<\/p>\n

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