Judge Permanently Blocks Trump Voter ID Order

“The court’s ruling confirms what we have long argued: the President may not rewrite election law to impose a burdensome show-your-papers rule that would shut out countless Americans from the ballot box,” reads a joint statement from the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) about the ruling.

“This executive order was an attempted overreach of power, bypassing the Constitution’s clear allocation of authority to Congress and the states to set election rules,” the statement continued. “Our democracy is strongest when every eligible voter can register and vote free from expensive and unnecessary requirements.”

“President Trump has exercised his lawful authority to ensure only American citizens are casting ballots in American elections,” she said.

“There are multiple problems with it,” Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) told The Hill in April. “The president [of] United States does not control voting laws. The states control voting laws in America, and Congress can regulate, but Congress has not passed anything the president’s talking about.”

“I’ve seen voter suppression up close as someone who has run in Georgia numerous times,” Sen. Raphael Warnock (D-Ga.) also said in April. “Officials in Georgia looked at the anatomy of my win the first time around and they came after it with surgical precision. I had to beat them in court in order to win my race. And so we’re seeing the president play out of the same playbook writ large.”