Judge blocks parts of Trump order purporting to protect 'integrity' of US elections

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

64% : In their complaint, the plaintiffs claimed that the president lacks the power to issue the directives in his order, asserting that the executive has "no role in regulating federal elections" under the U.S. Constitution and relevant federal laws.
58% : Many provisions of the SAVE Act are encompassed by Trump's executive order.
53% : Provisions not halted by the court include one directing the Departments of Homeland Security and State to give access to the so-called Department of Government Efficiency access to databases to "search for non-citizens who have registered to vote," and two requiring states to stop counting mail-in votes received after election day or have federal funds withheld.
52% : In a 120-page order, U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly issued a preliminary injunction blocking the president's measure that would require amending the national voter registration form to require proof of U.S. citizenship as well as a provision ordering federal agencies to "assess the citizenship" of individuals who receive public assistance before they are provided a voter registration form.
31% : Following Kollar-Kotelly's order, White House spokesperson Harrison Fields issued the following statement to CBS News: "President Trump will keep fighting for election integrity, despite Democrat objections that reveal their disdain for commonsense safeguards like verifying citizenship.
24% : Kollar-Kotelly, an appointee of President Bill Clinton, wrote that allowing those measures to be implemented would cause "irreparable harm" to the plaintiffs and "would not be in the public interest.
19% : " Trump has continued to promote that fictitious narrative even after he took office for the second time.
11% : Since his loss to Joe Biden, Trump has repeatedly promulgated erroneous conspiracy theories positing that the election was rife with voter fraud and rigged in favor of Democrats.

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