Judges Block Trump’s Executive Orders
United States’ judges have blocked aspects of President Donald Trump agenda on voting, immigration and DEI in education.
The federal judges on Thursday blocked several aspects of the President’s agenda that he has tried to enact through vehicles such as executive orders.
One of the judges blocked the government’s efforts to add a proof of citizenship requirement to the federal voter registration form.
Trump sought to unilaterally add the requirement in a 25 March executive order.
The Democratic party challenged that order, arguing the president does not have the power to set the rules for federal elections.
US district judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly agreed with the party’s argument, blocking a portion of the executive order that required federal agencies to assess the citizenship of individuals applying to vote at a public assistance agency before they offered them a chance to vote.
In another ruling, a federal judge said President Trump government’s attempt to make federal funding to schools conditional on them eliminating any DEI policies erodes the “foundational principles” that separates the United States from totalitarian regimes.
US district judge Landya McCafferty partially blocked the Department of Education from enforcing a memo issued earlier this year that directed any institution that receives federal funding to end discrimination on the basis of race or face funding cuts.
And on immigration, US district judge Stephanie Gallagher ordered the Trump administration to make “a good faith request” to the government of El Salvador to facilitate the return of a second man sent to a prison there back to the US, saying his deportation violated a court settlement.
Gallagher also ordered the administration not to deport other migrants covered by the settlement.
Another ruling saw US district judge William Orrick, blocked the Trump administration from withholding federal funding from several so-called sanctuary jurisdictions that have declined to cooperate with the president’s hard-line immigration crackdown.
