{"id":2447188,"date":"2025-06-13T18:05:02","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T22:05:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-find-judge-to-block-more-of-trumps-election-law-order\/"},"modified":"2025-06-13T18:08:06","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T22:08:06","slug":"dems-find-judge-to-block-more-of-trumps-election-law-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/dems-find-judge-to-block-more-of-trumps-election-law-order\/","title":{"rendered":"Dems Find Judge To Block More Of Trump&#8217;s Election Law Order"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fdems-find-judge-to-block-more-of-trumps-election-law-order%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2447188&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A coalition of 19 Democratic state attorneys general successfully secured a court ruling against several provisions of former President Donald Trump&#8217;s executive order aimed at enhancing election integrity. A Massachusetts <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wow-georgia-judge-who-also-is-stacy-abrams-sister-blocks-elections-officials-from-challenging-voters-who-live-outside-of-registered-district\/\" title=\"WOW! Georgia Judge Who Also Is Stacy Abrams\u2019 Sister BLOCKS ... Officials from Challenging Voters Who Live Outside of ...ed District!\">district court judge<\/a>, Denise J. Casper, ruled that potential voters should not be required to prove thier citizenship with documents such as passports or state-issued IDs. This decision follows a similar ruling by another U.S. district court judge, Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, who previously blocked the order&#8217;s proof-of-citizenship requirement. <\/p>\n<p>Trump&#8217;s executive order had mandated the inclusion of citizenship proof in federal voter registration processes, which would complicate and perhaps impede voter registration, especially for those receiving public assistance. Casper granted a preliminary injunction against implementing these provisions, suggesting they could result in irreparable harm and discrimination against voters, particularly among Black and low-income populations.Critics argue that this decision undermines election integrity while Democrats leverage favorable judicial venues to achieve victories against the Trump administration&#8217;s initiatives. <\/p>\n<p>The article highlights ongoing debates about voter ID laws and their implications for electoral fairness, framed against the backdrop of political and judicial maneuvering in the United States.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>After a U.S. <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >district court judge barred parts<\/a> of Donald Trump&rsquo;s election integrity executive order in April, a coalition of 19 Democrat attorneys general found a second district court judge to block other crucial provisions of the order. Along with the requirement of proof of citizenship to register to vote, these provisions include measures that strengthen security protections for overseas voting and ensure that ballots meet an Election Day deadline instead of straggling in for weeks on end.<\/p>\n<p>By law, only U.S. citizens are allowed to vote in federal elections. But left-leaning Massachusetts Judge Denise J. Casper <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.mad.282905\/gov.uscourts.mad.282905.107.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">ruled<\/a> on Friday that wannabe voters should not have to prove they are citizens by showing documents like a passport, a state-issued photo ID like a driver&rsquo;s license, or a military ID.<\/p>\n<p>Casper has sided with the 19 Democrat-led states fighting President Donald Trump&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.whitehouse.gov\/presidential-actions\/2025\/03\/preserving-and-protecting-the-integrity-of-american-elections\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">executive order<\/a> requiring documentary proof of citizenship to participate in federal elections. The states in this case are California, Nevada, Massachusetts, Arizona, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, Minnesota, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, and Wisconsin.<\/p>\n<p>In their lawsuit the states took aim at Trump&rsquo;s order directing the federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC) to include a documentary proof of citizenship requirement on the federal voter registration <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eac.gov\/sites\/default\/files\/eac_assets\/1\/6\/Federal_Voter_Registration_ENG.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">form<\/a>, which would require state employees&nbsp;to assess citizenship &mdash; see the documents &mdash; before letting applicants register to vote when they apply for public assistance programs. (Those receiving public assistance are automatically handed a federal voter registration card when they apply for services.) &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The same executive order has other components, including a directive that Attorney General Pam Bondi take action against states that count absentee or mail-in ballots received after Election Day in the final tabulation of votes and a measure to require proof of citizenship and state eligibility to register as an overseas voter under the Uniformed and Overseas Citizens Absentee Voting Act (UOCAVA). But Casper nixed those too. <\/p>\n<p>In April U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly barred the order&rsquo;s critical proof-of-citizenship requirement for the federal voter registration application and, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2025\/04\/24\/donald-trump-elections-executive-order-00308294\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">according to Politico<\/a>, &ldquo;another provision that instructs federal agencies not to assist individuals with registering unless they can assess that those people are U.S. citizens.&rdquo; She left provisions like the Election Day deadline and the UOCAVA proof-of-citizenship requirement in place, but Democrats simply moved along to the favorable venue and achieved a victory in one district court that has nationwide consequences for the integrity of U.S. elections.<\/p>\n<p>Casper granted the states a preliminary injunction, preventing Trump&rsquo;s order from being implemented, saying the states are likely to prevail in further court proceedings. She said implementing better voter ID would likely cause irreparable harm to states, because it would be complicated and expensive.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The Executive Order will require the States to immediately update their voter registration processes and databases, issue new guidance, conduct trainings and &lsquo;fund and mount public education campaigns to counter confusion and disenfranchisement resulting from the changes,&#8217;&rdquo; Casper <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.mad.282905\/gov.uscourts.mad.282905.107.0.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">wrote<\/a> in her opinion. &nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Currently the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/official-election-data-drops-2020-bombshell-thousands-of-ballots-may-have-been-illegally-cast\/\" title=\"Official Election Data Drops 2020 Bombshell: Thousands of Ballots May Have Been Illegally Cast\">federal voter registration form<\/a> requires would-be voters to make a &ldquo;standard oath&rdquo; that they are U.S. citizens. It amounts to simply checking a box. <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/tag\/noncitizen-voting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bad actors <\/a>have done far more to cheat in an election. But Casper was not moved by this reality.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;&ldquo;The Executive Branch now insists that this &lsquo;standard oath&rsquo; is not a substitute for proof of eligibility. Rather, according to the Executive Branch, the standard oath is &lsquo;merely a mechanism by which applicants are held accountable for the veracity of all statements they make in completing required application documents.&rsquo;&rdquo; She agreed with the states that because Congress made the application form a postcard, it did not intend to require documents.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Incredibly, Casper, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bostonglobe.com\/business\/2012\/06\/09\/federal-judge-breaks-new-ground-first-black-woman-sit-bench-massachusetts\/okBKS0fSigjqKBJqkmF2zK\/story.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">touted<\/a> as the first black female judge to serve on the federal bench in Massachusetts, made the racist claim in her order that asking people to provide citizenship documents is too expensive for black people, costing up to $165 for a passport in Rhode Island, and $22 for a birth certificate in the City of Providence.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;For this reason and others, [it] appears likely to disproportionately disenfranchise Black and poorer Americans,&rdquo; Casper wrote. She bolstered this claim using &ldquo;expertise&rdquo; from an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brennancenter.org\/our-work\/analysis-opinion\/house-bill-would-hurt-american-voters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">opinion<\/a> article published by the far-left election interference nonprofit (with $225 million in gross receipts) the Brennan Center for Justice. The <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/02\/18\/leftist-nonprofits-fighting-the-save-act-lead-back-to-two-soros-backed-groups\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">center<\/a> has been working overtime to prevent any sort of <a href=\"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/2025\/02\/14\/leftists-claims-the-save-act-wont-let-married-women-vote-are-an-insult-to-their-intelligence\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">meaningful<\/a> voter identification law from being enacted.<\/p>\n<p>Unfortunately, it appears that Democrats have found the perfect strategy for undermining election integrity and the Trump agenda more broadly: Moving from one jurisdiction to the next until a leftist district court judge in one venue hands Dems a victory that is a loss for Americans everywhere.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>      Beth Brelje is an elections correspondent for The Federalist. She is an <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/lara-logan-challenges-media-to-ask-certain-questions-about-afghanistan\/\" title=\"Lara Logan Challenges Media To Ask Certain Questions About Afghanistan\">award-winning investigative journalist<\/a> with decades of media experience.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A second judge blocked key parts of Trump&#8217;s election order<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":104,"featured_media":2447189,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bethy-Vote.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[4728,3933,5387,32603,57146],"class_list":["post-2447188","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-block","tag-dems","tag-judge","tag-political-news","tag-trumps-election-law"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/thefederalist.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/Bethy-Vote.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447188","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/104"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2447188"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447188\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2447192,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2447188\/revisions\/2447192"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2447189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2447188"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2447188"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2447188"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}