A federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump’s attempt to overhaul elections in the U.S., siding with a group of Democratic state attorneys general who challenged the effort as unconstitutional.

Trump’s March 25 executive order sought to compel officials to require documentary proof of citizenship for everyone registering to vote for federal elections, accept only mailed ballots received by Election Day and condition federal election grant funding on states adhering to the new ballot deadline.

The group of attorneys general said the directive “usurps the States’ constitutional power and seeks to amend election law by fiat.” The White House has defended the order as “standing up for free, fair and honest elections” and called proof of citizenship a “commonsense” requirement.

Judge Denise J. Casper of the U.S. District Court in Massachusetts said in Friday’s order that the states had a likelihood of success as to their legal challenges.

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    “siding with a group of Democratic state attorneys general”

    Maybe I should be keeping a list of “actually many Democrats are doing stuff”

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    When people support this or the trialess deportation of people who can’t prove their citizenship on the spot, ask them to prove their citizenship to you right then and there.

    Most people can’t quickly produce proof of citizenship.

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    Judge is not suppose to “side with democrats”, or any group or ideology. They’re supposed to only side with the constitution and the written and agreed upon laws.

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      No they absolutely did not, what the fuck are you talking about? Why did 5 people upvote this? Like wtf? I don’t understand posting verifiable lies and then upvoting them. Like what a weird thing to lie about.

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        I don’t understand posting verifiable lies and then upvoting them.

        I don’t know what op posted or if the upvotes are organic but don’t forget that a lot of trolls use alt accounts to self upvote.

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        There is a lot of vote manipulation going on throughout the fediverse. Most instance admins refuse to address the problem.

        Other forum sites have entire teams of people dedicated to countering vote manipulation but here there is nobody. It will get worse until something is done about it.

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        I think people are confused which court case this is; there are too many things happening this week, and I suspect the above was referring to the national guard one

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      WHY DO PEOPLE KEEP UPVOTING THIS STOP IT ITS NOT FUCKING TRUE

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      https://apnews.com/article/california-immigration-national-guard-newsom-trump-lawsuit-aedf8cdd95ee899c9559d5e54a2e4833

      The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Thursday temporarily blocked a federal judge’s order that directed President Donald Trump to return control of National Guard troops to California after he deployed them there following protests in Los Angeles over immigration raids.

      The court said it would hold a hearing on the matter on Tuesday

      The first ruling has been paused until there is a ruling from the Court of Appeals.

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        Letting lies online dictate your well-being is not great. It sucks, but the best thing to do is reply with the correction and move on. It’s not within any of our powers to force others to accept truth, and it’ll drive one to madness to try.