(DC Pundit) – A Clinton-appointed federal judge has partially blocked President Donald Trump’s executive order aimed at strengthening election integrity—because, apparently, ensuring only American citizens vote is just too much to ask.
The executive order, issued by President Trump on March 25, was a sweeping move to restore confidence in America’s voting system. It included commonsense requirements like voter ID, proof of citizenship to register for federal elections, tougher enforcement against foreign interference, and new protections against mail-in ballot shenanigans. In other words, things the average law-abiding American already assumes are in place… but somehow aren’t.
Thanks to U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, a portion of that order has now been iced—specifically, the part requiring documentary proof of citizenship for federal voter registration. Because why make sure only Americans are voting in American elections? That’s just too controversial in 2025, apparently.
This is the same Judge Kollar-Kotelly who once ridiculed an elderly Catholic woman for praying outside an abortion clinic. So it’s no shocker that she’s now siding with far-left legal groups like the Campaign Legal Center and the State Democracy Defenders Fund.
The part of Trump’s executive order that got blocked included a directive for the Department of Homeland Security, in coordination with the General Services Administration, to “review each State’s publicly available voter registration list and available records concerning voter list maintenance activities… alongside Federal immigration databases and State records requested, including through subpoena where necessary and authorized by law, for consistency with Federal requirements.”
That sounds like actual governance and due diligence. But to Democrats, it’s code for “voter suppression.”
Still, the ruling wasn’t a total win for the left. Judge Kollar-Kotelly did not block one of the most critical parts of Trump’s executive order: the ban on counting mail-in ballots received after Election Day. That provision remains intact, for now, meaning at least one avenue for election chaos has been temporarily sealed.
Of course, the ruling is already being hailed by liberal activists as a “victory for democracy,” which is an odd way to describe a move that makes it easier for non-citizens to slip onto voter rolls.
Democrats and their legal allies have long opposed voter ID laws and proof-of-citizenship measures, claiming they disenfranchise voters. What they won’t admit is that these safeguards make it harder to exploit the system. And in a world where every close race turns into a weeks-long tabulation marathon, securing the process should be a bipartisan goal. Instead, it’s just another front in the left’s never-ending war on accountability.
President Trump’s executive order also included provisions to audit voting machines and crack down on foreign money in campaigns, another area that, shockingly, Democrats haven’t embraced with open arms. Perhaps because, as we’ve seen in cycles past, those foreign donations have a strange way of ending up in blue campaign coffers.
America’s elections should be secure, fair, and transparent. Asking voters to prove they are citizens before casting a ballot isn’t “radical”—it’s responsible. But in today’s upside-down political climate, that kind of logic sends the left into fits.
Thankfully, despite this judge’s efforts, Trump’s fight to restore faith in our elections isn’t over. Not even close.
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