Judge Temporarily Blocks Part of Trump’s Executive Order on Voting
The judge did not issue a preliminary injunction on Sections 2(b), 7(a), and 7(b).
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia blocked parts of President Donald Trump’s executive order to secure our elections and provide proof of citizenship to vote.
Democrats and nonprofits immediately sued Trump over the order because minorities and women are apparently too stupid to get an ID.
Kollar-Kotelly granted a preliminary injunction regarding Sections 2(a) and 2(d).
“But the defendants’ threshold arguments falter with respect to the plaintiffs’ challenges to Sections 2(a) and 2(d),” wrote Kollar-Kotelly. “And on the merits, the plaintiffs are substantially likely to prevail: Our Constitution entrusts Congress and the States—not the President—with the authority to regulate federal elections. Consistent with that allocation of power, Congress is currently debating legislation that would effect many of the changes the President purports to order.”
The judge stopped those ordered in Section 2(a) from “taking any action…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.”
Section 2(a) lists the many forms and documents a person needs to register to vote.
The plaintiffs also received a preliminary injunction on Section 2(d):
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.”
Kollar-Kotelly denied the injunction request for Sections 2(b), 7(a), and 7(b).
“On the present record, challenges to those provisions are premature or properly presented not by these plaintiffs but by the States themselves,” explained the judge. “In fact, many States are already bringing those challenges elsewhere.”
Section 2(b) required DHS and the State Department to identify unqualified voters registered in the states.
Sections 7(a) and 7(b) addressed compliance with the law. Trump ordered the attorney general to “take all necessary action to enforce” two laws against any state that violates the executive order. He also told the Election Assistance Commission to determine funding for any state that does not comply with his law.
So, yeah, this is another Trump order tied up in the courts. It might take a bit for it to go into effect.
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These f-king judges
Time to ignore these retards.
Exactly. She has no authority on this matter.
Probably better to let it go through the appeals process. Public opinion keeps building for Trump which helps with the ‘26 and ‘28 elections.
It keeps pressure on the Supreme Court and if they stupidly block him then he can tell them to pound sand.
I think Trump is playing a smart long term game plan.
Problem is President Trump doesn’t have long term, the Democrat/ Marxists flood voting for the mid term then President Trump’s agenda will grind to a halt.
A Reagan appointee who went on to thank him by accumulating a career record of harassing exclusively Republican presidents and causes, including J6 defendants, right to life activists, and gun owners (once restraining a regulatory change to remove the prohibition on legal concealed carry in National Parks and lands because “no environmental impact study has been performed”).
Ther are no doubt many more Dems and judges who can be convicted og criminal acts if enough creative effort is put into producing evidence.
It feels like being a non-citizen is the only way to go.
Do it carefully or they’ll tax you on the way out.
That’s a surefire right to obtain more rights than citizenship confers.
They’re clever, I’ll give them that. The left is always full of energy and never gives up. At least, instead of wondering, we’ll get legal rulings on whether we can have a country or not.
Meh. Get Congress to act to implement the changes b/c even if the EO are successfully implemented a future d/prog President could revoke them with his own EO. It shouldn’t be a very heavy lift politically to restrict voting in Federal elections to those with proof of US Citizenship.
The Supreme Court has allowed itself to fall into a difficult position. How many of these lower court actions against the Executive are there now? The court really can’t decline to hear many of lower court rulings against Executive Power (there may be some they can ignore of course) because they involve fundamental constitutional powers issues. They MUST be decided.
Had the Court come out early and defined the extent and limits of the power of the Executive’s power most of this mess could have been avoided. Notice I don’t presume to know what that extent is or what the limits are… BUT right now, no one truthfully does. Again, the Court must make a broad ruling because If the Court hears all these cases individually not only will it take forever but they run the risk of inconsistency causing more problems.
You know, they say that a country may have huge discontent but there isn’t a revolution until the lawyers get involved.
By the way, on a totally different point, I would like to note that while the Left is destroying property and making threats against people they disagree with, the Right has only shown intellectual disagreement.
Not the court’s place to define the extent and limits of the power of the Executive’s power. That’s laid out in the Constitution. The court should, however, point out the limits of the inferior courts’ power. That they haven’t done so is the cause of all the lawfare.
“because minorities and women are apparently too stupid to get an ID.”
Ironic. With the Real ID deadline coming up, it’s almost harder to RESIST getting one than it is just to get one.
I have heard family members claim that Trump created Real ID to make women suffer. How does one even begin to address a claim of this nature?
Real ID has been in the pipeline for years. The implementation date for Real ID has been pushed back from it’s original deadline, so there’s no way Trump is behind Real ID.
What I want to know is why does the crowd screeching about voter ID have nothing to say about Real ID. I smell a rat.
I suspect there’s gonna be lost of complaints about Real ID when it goes into full effect in a few weeks. Camera crews and interviews at airports creating videos of frustrated folks who can’t board and miss their flights.
It’s been delayed far too long. Sucks that more than a few States were reluctant to set up their processes to create Real ID and now there’s a crush of folks competing for limited slots to be seen at DMV. Once initial roll out is done it is a breeze and there’s far less excuse not to use Real.ID as proof of citizenship for voter eligibility.
“We have to do our part to maintain The Party’s supremacy.”
Meh,,,, just defund the district courts.
Easier Still: Ignore her. She has no authority to do this.
Since 1998 I have voted against any funding for public schools. Look at the stats, they are useless.
Change the damn form anyway, screw that communist traitor in robes
OK, as a non-lawyer I don’t understand how these judges have any authority (or even jurisdiction) to thwart the functioning of the Executive branch. Maybe it’s an over-simplification, but it seems like they have no such authority whatsoever, and certainly not any authority supported by something like the Constitution.
Can someone please explain to me how the actions of these judges are justified and what gives them the authority to undermine the President in these cases? I’d appreciate it.
Well no one should have any doubt illegals are voting and with the grace of the Marxists
They have no authority and these actions are not justified or even legally sound,..But if you’re a parent, you know that like naughty child who will misbehave constantly because there are no consequences the judges have given themselves carte blance and will do so unless and until either Trump defies them or Roberts smacks their hands
“because minorities and women are apparently too stupid to get an ID.”
This needs to be said loudly and often. Make it a priority that democrats actually think that women and minorities are stupid. Hammer it home enough times, and the “minorities and women” will stand up themselves and claim they aren’t.
Only approximately 15% of dark skinned people in the west have an IQ of 100 and up, it is 50% for whites, including women.
Key word: “Temporarily”.