Whether Trump can order an independent agency to act and whether that agency has the authority to do what Trump wants will likely be settled in court.

The president does not have the authority to require proof of citizenship for all voters, a federal judge ruled.

A federal judge temporarily blocked parts of President Trump’s executive order demanding that proof of citizenship be added to

The Trump administration was handed a rapid-fire series of court losses Wednesday night and Thursday in lawsuits filed over its policies on immigration, elections and its crackdown on diversity, equity and inclusion programs in schools.

A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked parts of President Donald Trump's executive order seeking to impose new rules on federal elections, which Democrats and other groups said risked denying eligible citizens the right to vote.

The Trump administration cannot enforce parts of an EO requiring US election officials to assess if people who are registering to vote are citizens.

A federal judge has blocked key parts of President Donald Trump’s attempt to make it harder to register to vote without providing documents proving U.S. citizenship. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled Thursday that Trump’s sweeping executive order requiring federal agencies to impose the new voter registration standards was an attempt to usurp the powers of Congress and the states.