The federal judge blocked President Donald Trump’s attempt on the US elections on Friday, on the left with a group of general representatives of democratic prosecutors who questioned this effort as unconstitutional.
According to the AP report, the executive order of the Republican President on March 25 tried to get officials to demand documentary evidence of citizenship for all who registered to vote for the federal elections, only received the voting cards received by the election day and the conditions of federal electoral financing about the new vote.
A group of General Prosecutors said that the directive “usurp the constitutional power of states and seeks to change the right of Fiat”.
The White House defended the order as “standing up for free, fair and honest elections” and called evidence of citizenship with a “healthy” requirement.
Federal vs state strength
The best officials in criminal proceedings of 19 countries filed a federal lawsuit after the Republican President signed an executive order in March and claimed that its provisions could proceed on the authority of states to set its own electoral rules and that the executive branch does not have such authority. The case is tested by the constitutional subsoil – the Department of Powers.
The submission of the Bipartisan group of former state secretaries said that Trump’s Directive would support the system set by the Constitution elections, which gives the states and control of the congress over how the elections are carried out, the AP news agency reported.
They said that the order was trying to “unilaterally crown the president as the main politician and administrator of the country’s election policy”.
If the Court does not stop this order, they argued: “Snowball will grow rapidly and exponentially”.
What did Trump’s executive order meant
This election directive from Trump was part of a lot of executive orders issued in the opening months of his second term of office and provoked legal challenges.
Over the years, Trump has repeatedly argued that his loss to Democrat Joe Biden in the presidential elections by 2020 was caused by a widespread fraud. Trump and other Republicans supported the idea that a large number of foreigners threatened the integrity of the US elections, the report said.
Noncitizens vote is in fact rare and can lead to accusations of crime and deportation when catching.
Donald Trump’s executive order would require voters to show evidence of US citizenship when registering for voting in federal elections, forbidden postal or absent ballots to count on whether they are received after an election day, set new rules for voting equipment and banned citizens outside the US in some elections.
It would also condition the financing of federal election grants to states that are strictly voting, the report added.
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