Trump can’t require proof of citizenship on federal voting form, judge rules

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, ruled that only Congress and the states have the power to regulate federal elections. Kollar-Kotelly deemed unconstitutional Trump’s March executive order requiring documentary proof of citizenship on the national mail voter registration form.

“The first question presented in these consolidated cases is whether the President, acting unilaterally, may direct changes to federal election procedures. Because our Constitution assigns responsibility for election regulation to the States and to Congress, this Court holds that the President lacks the authority to direct such changes,” Kollar-Kotelly wrote.

The judge is an appointee of former President Bill Clinton. Her ruling came as a judgment in the case brought by several Democratic groups against Trump’s executive order titled

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