Judge pauses parts of Trump's sweeping executive order on voting

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

58% : Earlier this month, the GOP-led House of Representatives, mostly along party lines, passed the SAVE Act.
52% : " The judge's decision also pauses a second provision of Trump's executive order that requires certain government agencies to verify U.S. citizenship before giving voter registration forms to enrollees of public assistance programs.
50% : While noncitizens do sometimes wind up on voter rolls, state audits have found instances of noncitizens voting to be exceedingly rare.
48% : "Our Constitution entrusts Congress and the States -- not the President -- with the authority to regulate federal elections," wrote Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly in a 120-page opinion, while noting that Congress is currently debating legislation -- the SAVE Act -- that would require showing proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections.
35% : Trump, however, pushed a baseless narrative during the 2024 election that large numbers of noncitizens were poised to vote and swing the election for Democrats.
29% : No evidence of such a plot has surfaced, but Trump and Republicans have continued to cite the narrative to justify more restrictive voting requirements.
22% : Trump's executive order essentially seeks to implement much of the SAVE Act by executive decree -- a move the judge rejected.
20% : " In a statement, White House spokesperson Harrison Fields said, "President Trump will keep fighting for election integrity, despite Democrat objections that reveal their disdain for commonsense safeguards like verifying citizenship.

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