{"id":890181,"date":"2026-06-24T20:20:24","date_gmt":"2026-06-24T20:20:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/890181\/"},"modified":"2026-06-24T20:20:24","modified_gmt":"2026-06-24T20:20:24","slug":"federal-judge-bars-trump-from-proof-of-citizenship-requirement-to-vote","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/890181\/","title":{"rendered":"Federal judge bars Trump from proof of citizenship requirement to vote"},"content":{"rendered":"

A federal judge on Wednesday permanently barred President Donald Trump\u2019s administration from implementing most of his first executive order<\/a> on 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 blocked many of Trump\u2019s efforts<\/a> to overhaul elections, into a permanent ban.<\/p>\n

Casper rejected the Republican administration\u2019s argument that the lawsuit to block the changes brought by Democratic state attorneys general<\/a> was premature because the rules had yet to be put in place. 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 wrote Casper.<\/p>\n

Among other proposed changes, Trump\u2019s order<\/a> would have required people to provide documentary proof of citizenship<\/a> when 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

In a statement, New York Attorney General Letitia James<\/a> said she was grateful the court had blocked Trump\u2019s \u201cunconstitutional attempt to seize control of our elections\u201d and would continue to defend voting rights in this year\u2019s midterm elections.<\/p>\n

\u201cGenerations of Americans fought tirelessly for the right to vote, and we honor their legacy by protecting that right against anyone who tries to undermine it,\u201d said James, a Democrat.<\/p>\n

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California Attorney General Rob Bonta, whose state was the lead plaintiff in the case, said the ruling reaffirmed the constitutional principle that it s up to the states and Congress to set election rules.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhile we are proud of this result, we are clear-eyed that President Trump\u2019s attacks on voting rights and our elections show no signs of slowing down,\u201d Bonta, a Democrat, said in a statement. \u201cSo let me be clear: we will keep fighting back every step of the way.\u201d<\/p>\n

Requests for comment sent to the White House and he U.S. Department of Justice were not immediately returned.<\/p>\n

The ruling was the latest in a series against the elections executive order Trump signed just months after taking office for his second term. The Republican president has since signed another executive order on elections<\/a> that seeks to create a national voter list and limit mail balloting. That directive also faces multiple legal challenges<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Last fall, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., overseeing a separate challenge<\/a> to the first election executive order by civil rights and Democratic Party-aligned groups blocked the government<\/a> from taking steps to include the proof-of-citizenship requirement on the federal voter registration form. That judge later barred Trump\u2019s defense secretary<\/a> from 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 pushing legislation<\/a> in the Republican-controlled Congress to create such a mandate. The SAVE America Act has passed the House but has stalled in the Senate<\/a>, leading Trump to advocate for eliminating the filibuster that is blocking the legislation.<\/p>\n

On Wednesday, he abruptly canceled<\/a> the expected signing of a bipartisan housing bill, saying he would not sign legislation until Congress passes his proof of citizenship requirement for voting.<\/p>\n

The president and many of his Republican allies have been promoting the narrative<\/a> that voting by noncitizens<\/a> is a major problem, when in fact it\u2019s quite rare<\/a>. The federal voter registration form already requires people to attest that they are U.S. citizens. Violating that is punishable<\/a> as a felony that can lead to prison or deportation<\/a>.<\/p>\n

In another major voting case<\/a>, the U.S. Supreme Court is due to issue an opinion soon on whether mail ballots must arrive by Election Day. That could immediately change the rules in 14 states that allow grace periods ranging from days to weeks if the ballots are postmarked by Election Day.<\/p>\n

Casper, who was nominated by Democratic President Barack Obama, is the chief judge for the U.S. District Court for the District of Massachusetts.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A federal judge on Wednesday permanently barred President Donald Trump\u2019s administration from implementing most of his first executive…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":890182,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[4,3],"tags":[7373,11744,2731,29070,364,360942,69,90,19887,57,2055,24980,2739,50,80,13211,89,61,67,370,132,68,333,76450,93],"class_list":["post-890181","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-united-states","category-us","tag-2026-elections","tag-barack-obama","tag-boston","tag-citizenship","tag-constitutional-law","tag-denise-casper","tag-donald-trump","tag-elections","tag-executive-orders","tag-general-news","tag-government-and-politics","tag-letitia-james","tag-massachusetts","tag-news","tag-politics","tag-rob-bonta","tag-u-s-democratic-party","tag-u-s-news","tag-united-states","tag-united-states-government","tag-unitedstates","tag-us","tag-voting","tag-voting-rights","tag-washington-news"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/116806944716366902","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890181","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=890181"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/890181\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/890182"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=890181"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=890181"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=890181"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}