WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump is plowing ahead with efforts to change election rules despite initial court rulings that he doesn’t have the power to do so.
Trump said on Aug. 30 he will sign an executive order requiring voters provide identification in every election.
An executive order Trump signed in March requiring people to show government-issued proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote in federal elections has been blocked by the courts.
“The Constitution does not grant the president any specific powers over elections,” U.S. District Judge Denise Casper in Massachusetts wrote in June.
In April, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., reached the same conclusion.
