A federal district judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order to overhaul U.S. federal elections, siding with a group of Democratic state attorneys general who said the order violated the Constitution.
In the ruling, U.S. District Judge Denise Casper agreed to grant a preliminary injunction that was sought by the attorneys general from more than a dozen states who had challenged Trump’s directive, issued in March.
“There is no dispute [nor could there be] that U.S. citizenship is required to vote in federal elections and the federal voter registration forms require attestation of citizenship,” Casper said in the order, adding that the issue is whether the president can mandate “documentary proof of citizenship where the authority for election requirements is in the hands of Congress.”...
