Court to Trump: You Can't Just Rewrite Election Rules
A federal judge just permanently blocked Trump’s attempt to overhaul how Americans vote, reminding him that the White House isn’t a local polling station.
Remember Trump's massive executive order from last year? The one where he tried to force states to demand proof of citizenship to vote, ban late-arriving mail ballots, and threaten to starve noncompliant states of federal funding? Well, a federal judge just took a giant red pen to it.
District Judge Denise Casper made her temporary block permanent, basically telling the administration that the president does not actually run local elections. In a 59-page ruling, she pointed out the obvious: the Constitution gives the president zero specific powers over how votes are cast. That job belongs to the states.
She also noted that tossing late-arriving mail ballots would disproportionately hurt military members, rural folks, and the elderly. Naturally, 19 states sued, and now the whole "do what I say or I cut your funding" threat is dead in the water.
It turns out the Constitution actually has rules about who gets to make the rules. Who knew?
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