A federal judge has now blocked President Trump’s executive order mandating a proof of citizenship in order to register to vote in federal elections.
Here’s the news from The Hill:
A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Friday sided with civil rights groups that sued the Trump administration over an executive order requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly wrote in her decision that the responsibility for election regulation is in the hands of the states and Congress, as stated in the Constitution, and “that the President lacks the authority to direct such changes.”
She later added, “The Constitution’s allocation of authority over federal elections between Congress and the States may not be intuitive. But it is no accident. Instead, this design was the product of carefully considered compromises among our Constitution’s Framers.”
Kollar-Kotelly also ruled that the U.S. Election Assistance Commission is permanently barred from incorporating proof of citizenship in federal voter registration.
Governor DeSantis wrote in response to this ruling: “You have to be a citizen to vote but you can’t verify the citizenship of a voter? Make it make sense.”
I really hope this gets overturned. DeSantis is exactly right, and it is especially crucial that citizenship be verified considering all the illegals Biden and Obama imported into this country.
