{"id":11260,"date":"2025-06-13T13:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-06-13T13:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=11260"},"modified":"2025-06-13T13:40:10","modified_gmt":"2025-06-13T13:40:10","slug":"judge-blocks-trumps-election-executive-order-siding-with-democrats","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/?p=11260","title":{"rendered":"Judge blocks Trump\u2019s election executive order, siding with Democrats"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-testid=\"prism-article-body\">\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \"><span class=\"oyrPY qlwaB AGxeB  \">ATLANTA &#8212; <\/span>A federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump\u2019s <a class=\"zZygg UbGlr iFzkS qdXbA WCDhQ DbOXS tqUtK GpWVU iJYzE \" data-testid=\"prism-linkbase\" href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/voting-elections-trump-executive-order-4e9edb53f47e61e241a43ceef8164022\">attempt to overhaul elections<\/a> in the U.S., siding with a group of Democratic state attorneys general who challenged the effort as unconstitutional.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">The Republican president&#8217;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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">The group of attorneys general said the directive \u201cusurps the States\u2019 constitutional power and seeks to amend election law by fiat.\u201d The White House has defended the order as \u201cstanding up for free, fair and honest elections\u201d and called proof of citizenship a \u201ccommonsense\u201d requirement.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ATLANTA &#8212; A federal judge on Friday blocked President Donald Trump\u2019s attempt to overhaul elections in the U.S., siding with a group of Democratic state attorneys general who challenged the effort as unconstitutional. The Republican president&#8217;s March 25 executive order sought to compel officials to require documentary proof of citizenship for everyone registering to vote [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":11261,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-us-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11260","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11260"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11262,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11260\/revisions\/11262"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/11261"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/firearmman.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}