A federal judge strongly criticized Donald Trump’s broad anti-voting executive order and stopped several of its main parts forever. She said it wasn’t just against the law, but actually a danger to democracy.
Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly didn’t hold back or use soft language.
She reminded Trump of a simple lesson in civics that he has tried to forget: the president does not have the power to decide election rules. None at all.
She wrote that the people who created the Constitution knew that having control over elections could be abused.
That’s why they gave that power to the states and Congress—not to the president.
Trump’s order aimed to do what voter suppression groups have wanted for a long time: make it harder to register to vote, keep people registered, and quietly stop eligible voters from voting—especially students, older people, people with low incomes, and people of color.
The judge stopped parts of the order, including Trump’s plan to require federal agencies to check citizenship before giving out voter registration forms and his demand for documents to prove citizenship for military and overseas voters.
The court said both were not allowed by the Constitution.
She wrote simply, “Our Constitution does not allow the president to change federal election rules on his own.”
That sentence should be written on Trump’s pen or maybe on his hand.
This ruling followed other courts stopping parts of the order temporarily.
This time, the stop is permanent, thanks to lawsuits from the Democratic Party, the League of United Latin American Citizens, and the League of Women Voters.
Trump’s real goal was never about making elections fair.
It was about control, controlling election money, targeting mail-in voting, and using government rules to reduce the number of voters.
And now, the courts have said no again.
The Constitution stood. Voters won. And Trump was reminded once more that in America, the presidency is not a throne, and democracy doesn’t bow to a president’s anger.
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