Overview
- U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued an 81-page ruling that permanently enjoins the Election Assistance Commission from adding a documentary citizenship requirement to the national mail voter registration form.
- She concluded the President lacks unilateral authority to alter federal election procedures because that power rests with Congress and the states under the Constitution.
- The decision targets Section 2(a) of Executive Order 14,248, signed March 25, which directed the EAC to require passports or similar documents as proof of citizenship for registration.
- Democratic committees and civil-rights groups, including the League of Women Voters, LULAC, and the NAACP, brought the challenges and praised the ruling as protecting voter access.
- The White House signaled it will appeal, and other provisions of the order—including a requirement that mail ballots be received by Election Day that the judge declined to block—remain under litigation.