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A federal judge in Boston on June 24, 2026 turned a previous temporary block into a permanent one, sharply limiting most of President Donald Trump’s first executive order on elections. The ruling stops the administration from carrying out the order’s core provisions, including the plan to require documentary proof of citizenship from people registering to vote in federal elections. ([apnews.com](https://apnews.com/article/358912bcb6c7223b3d2d36465156fde9?utm_source=openai))

U.S. District Judge Denise Casper rejected the administration’s argument that the lawsuit was too early because the changes had not yet been fully implemented. She said the Constitution assigns election authority to Congress and the states, not the president, and held that the challenged provisions ran afoul of that separation of powers. ([apnews.com](https://apnews.com/article/358912bcb6c7223b3d2d36465156fde9?utm_source=openai))

The case was brought by Democratic state attorneys general in Massachusetts and challenged the election-order provisions as unlawful on their face. Casper’s decision leaves the administration without a path to enforce most of the order’s registration changes unless a higher court revives them on appeal. ([apnews.com](https://apnews.com/article/358912bcb6c7223b3d2d36465156fde9?utm_source=openai))

The ruling does not resolve every fight over election rules, but it shuts down a major piece of Trump’s push to tighten federal voter registration requirements by executive order. The practical effect is straightforward: for now, the White House cannot add the documentary-citizenship requirement through this order, and the broader dispute over who gets to set election rules remains with Congress and the states. ([apnews.com](https://apnews.com/article/358912bcb6c7223b3d2d36465156fde9?utm_source=openai))