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Clinton judge blocks Trump citizenship requirement order on federal voting forms

November 1, 2025 | | Print Article

A Clinton-appointed judge added to her history of orders against President Donald Trump with a Friday ruling blocking efforts to shore up America’s elections.

As much as possible, obstructionists on the left have sought to block the president’s America First agenda by continuing their use of lawfare. Now, as the Democratic Party’s shutdown persisted over their desire to fund healthcare for illegal aliens, for whom they’ve employed radical and often violent means against federal law enforcement to impede deportations, a Washington, D.C. district judge ruled against Trump’s executive order requiring proof of citizenship to vote.

“Because our Constitution assigns responsibility for election regulation to the States and to Congress, this Court holds that the President lacks the authority to direct such changes,” wrote U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly, who deemed the action by the president unconstitutional.

“… the Constitution assigns no direct role to the President in either domain,” said the judge regarding regulating federal elections and setting voting qualifications as she barred the U.S. Election Assistance Commission from adding the requirement to federal voter forms.

In addition to serving on the district court since her appointment by President Bill Clinton in 1997, Kollar-Kotelly had also served as the presiding judge of the United States Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court from 2002 to 2009.

Previously, Kollar-Kotelly raised eyebrows after John Harlow, the husband of 75-year-old Paulette “Paula” Harlow, had pleaded for mercy regarding his wife’s two-year prison sentence for praying outside of an abortion clinic.

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Reacting to concerns about Harlow’s health after the conviction for violating the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances (FACE) Act, the judge was reported as saying, “I would suggest that, in terms of your religion, that one of the tenets is that you should make the effort during this period of time, when it may be difficult in terms of for your husband, to make every effort to remain alive, to do the things that you need to do to survive, because that’s part of the tenets of your religion.”

Kollar-Kotelly, who’d once blocked access for the Department of Government Efficiency to the U.S. Department of Treasury, also felt the need to opine regarding Jan. 6, 2021 in formally dismissing a case following the president’s sweeping pardons for J6 defendants as she wrote in part, “What occurred that day is preserved for the future through thousands of contemporaneous videos, transcripts of trials, jury verdicts, and judicial opinions analyzing and recounting the evidence through a neutral lens.”

“Those records are immutable and represent the truth, no matter how the events of January 6 are described by those charged or their allies,” she added.

Responding to the ruling, White House deputy press secretary Abigail Jackson said in a statement, “President Trump has exercised his lawful authority to ensure only American citizens are casting ballots in American elections. This is so commonsense that only the Democrat Party would file a lawsuit against it. We expect to be vindicated by a higher court.”

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Meanwhile, the lawsuit continues as the Democratic National Committee and leftist organizations also oppose attempts to limit mail-in voting to ballots postmarked before Election Day.

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