The Daily Fuckup

A federal judge in Boston on June 24 made permanent an earlier block on key provisions of President Donald Trump’s elections executive order. The ruling bars the administration from enforcing provisions that would have pushed documentary proof-of-citizenship requirements into federal voter registration forms and would have tied federal election funding to state compliance with ballot-receipt deadlines and related rules.

Chief U.S. District Judge Denise Casper said the challenged sections exceeded presidential authority. In the 59-page order, she permanently enjoined enforcement of the order’s provisions at issue for the plaintiff states, while also leaving one narrow question unresolved.

The case had already been partly frozen before this week’s decision. Casper had granted preliminary relief last year, and the June 24 order converted that earlier relief into final judgment on the remaining claims the court resolved. The ruling does not read as a blanket invalidation of every part of the executive order; instead, it targets specific sections and specific states that brought the case.

The one issue still hanging is § 7(b), limited to the non-ballot-receipt states’ challenge. Casper ordered the parties to confer and notify the court by July 10, 2026, on whether they intended to press that claim or seek final judgment on the rest of the case.

For now, the practical result is simple: the administration cannot use this order to impose the challenged proof-of-citizenship and ballot-processing mandates on the plaintiff states while the court’s permanent injunction stands.