Judge blocks Trump’s election executive order, siding with Democrats who called it overreach
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A judge in Massachusetts has blocked President Donald Trump’s election executive order, siding with Democratic state attorneys who called it overreach.

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.

  • chiliedogg
    651·
    14 days ago

    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.

      • NotAnotherLemmyUser
        101·
        14 days ago

        And even if one of them decides it’s real (after giving you a good beating):

        They realized he did, in fact, have his green card, but questioned whether it was real.

        “‘I don’t know, maybe it’s fake’ … The other guy says, ‘No, it’s real’ … That’s when they finally stopped”

        They’ll threaten to do what they can to get it revoked just so they can come back for you:

        “Do you think you’re a big shot just because you have a green card? I’ll make sure they revoke that green card of yours,” Reyes said, recalling what agents told him. “‘I’m going to do everything I can to get this paper revoked,’ an immigration officer told me.”

        https://www.nbcboston.com/news/local/worker-arrested-by-ice-in-lynn-released-a-day-later-says-he-was-beaten-in-custody/3733701/

    • CIA_chatbot
      171·
      14 days ago

      In Nazi germany “let me see your papers” was very much a thing

    • Miles O'Brien@startrek.websiteEnglish
      161·
      14 days ago

      If their proof of citizenship is their ID, remind them that people make their entire living off selling fake or altered ID cards.

      Sorry, your drivers license isn’t good enough, you’re going to the concentration camps.

    • Lucky_777
      121·
      14 days ago

      Exactly. Sure I have a passport. But I’m not carrying that thing around with me.

      But I’m white. So currently, it’s probably OK for me, but time and this admin will be coming for us all.