From Reuters: A federal judge on Friday permanently blocked part of an executive order from Republican U.S. President Donald Trump, ruling that the president cannot require voters to show passports or similar documents as proof of citizenship before voting.
Several lawsuits have challenged the president’s March 25 executive order, a sweeping order aimed at overhauling federal elections, and courts had already temporarily blocked it from going into effect. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington, D.C., was the first to reach a final ruling against the executive order.
Kollar-Kotelly permanently blocked the part of the executive order that would require proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote. The judge had previously declined to block the part of the executive order that would bar states from counting mail-in ballots received after Election Day.
The ruling came in response to lawsuits by groups including the Democratic National Committee, the League of United Latin American Citizens and the League of Women Voters Education Fund.
The report explains that President Trump’s executive order “had called on a non-partisan federal election body to modify a standardized national voter registration form to require a document such as a passport proving citizenship.”
ABOUT THIS JUDGE: Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, 82, is a senior United States district judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia and was previously presiding judge of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court. She was nominated by president Bill Clinton in January 1997 and confirmed by the Senate in March 1997.
BREAKING: Colleen Constance Kollar-Kotelly, a Clinton-appointed judge, has ruled that the Trump CAN’T require citizenship proof on federal voting forms. pic.twitter.com/j14zs5QAXD
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A federal judge in Washington, D.C., permanently blocked part of President Trump’s March executive order on federal elections, ruling that the president can not require voters to show passports or similar documents as proof of citizenship before voting https://t.co/WG9BV4RAz8 pic.twitter.com/MeDunq3okR
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