On Friday evening, a left-wing activist judge ruled that President Donald Trump is not allowed to mandate proof of citizenship for voting. Judge Colleen Constance Kollar-Kotelly, an 82-year-old Clinton-appointee, permanently blocked President Trump from requiring citizenship verification on federal voting forms.
BREAKING: In an infuriating move, an activist judge BLOCKS President Trump from ensuring citizenship to vote in federal elections. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly has decided Trump CANNOT have the states require proof of citizenship for federal voter registration. She believes she is president of the United States. IGNORE and APPEAL, get it OVERTURNED. We are facing a judicial coup who want illegals to vote.
The judge’s ruling came in response to President Trump’s executive order from March requiring Americans to provide proof of citizenship to vote. Judge Kollar-Kotelly deemed the order “unconstitutional.” A federal judge has ruled the Trump administration cannot enforce an executive order requiring documented proof of U.S. citizenship on federal voter registration forms, a decision the administration defends as a lawful effort to protect election integrity.
U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in Washington, D.C., on Friday found the requirement unconstitutional, writing that the president “lacks the authority to direct such changes.” “The first question presented in these consolidated cases is whether the president, acting unilaterally, may direct changes to federal election procedures,” Kollar-Kotelly wrote in her opinion. “Because our Constitution assigns responsibility for election regulation to the States and to Congress, this Court holds that the President lacks the authority to direct such changes.”
What on earth is “unconstitutional” about requiring American citizens — who are the only people legally allowed to vote in U.S. elections — to show proof of that in order to vote? And by the way, yes, that’s her real name. And yet, she’s acting like she is the president and can order whatever she wants.
The Trump administration will appeal this ruling and hopes to prevail. The White House disagreed with the judge’s decision in a statement late Friday, asserting, “President Trump has exercised his lawful authority to ensure only American citizens are casting ballots in American elections.” The statement added, “This is so commonsense that only the Democrat Party would file a lawsuit against it. We expect to be vindicated by a higher court.”
Critics argue the judicial system is becoming increasingly unstable. Bad Hombre on X noted, “Clinton-appointed Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly just ruled that proof of citizenship isn’t required to register to vote, meaning anyone can fill out a voter registration form and claim to be a citizen without showing ID. You just have to take their word for it.”
The ruling has sparked outrage, with calls for action against what some describe as “traitors” in the judiciary.