The Daily Fuckup

By June 2, 2025, President Donald Trump’s March 25 elections order was already partly blocked in federal court. The White House said the order was meant to tighten election administration and require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship on the federal voter registration form. Plaintiffs challenged that directive soon after it was issued, arguing the president did not have unilateral authority to impose those changes. ([whitehouse.gov](https://www.whitehouse.gov/fact-sheets/2025/03/fact-sheet-president-donald-j-trump-protects-the-integrity-of-american-elections/?utm_source=openai))

On April 24, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued a preliminary injunction that put the proof-of-citizenship requirement on hold while the case moved forward. The ruling blocked that provision for now; it was not a final merits decision on the full order, and it left other parts of the litigation to be resolved later. The judge also declined to block some other provisions in the same order at that time. ([apnews.com](https://apnews.com/article/4b683fe2e1106316fdb05621be9b7d0e?utm_source=openai))

That is the key timeline point for the June 2 snapshot. The order was not a dead letter, and the case was not over. But one central piece of it had already been enjoined weeks earlier, and the broader legal fight was still in progress. ([apnews.com](https://apnews.com/article/4b683fe2e1106316fdb05621be9b7d0e?utm_source=openai))