President Trump says voter ID will be required to vote in midterm elections
In a post on Truth Social, President Trump asserted that voter ID will be required in the midterm elections even if Congress does not approve it.
A federal judge in Massachusetts ruled on June 24 that President Donald Trump’s request for proof of citizenship to register to vote exceeded his authority.
The ruling is the latest legal blow to the requirement, which was part of an executive order signed by President Trump in March 2025. The provision would require state and local governments to report details of citizenship documents on national forms used for voter registration applications.
American citizenship is required to vote in the United States, and the registration form requires proof that you are already a U.S. citizen. Some states argue that requiring applicants to provide documentation of citizenship could be a major impediment to voting because some forms of government ID do not include citizenship information and many Americans do not have passports.
Judge Dennis Casper, an Obama appointee, agreed with several Democratic-led states that the requirement exceeded Trump’s authority under the Constitution and the National Voter Registration Act, a 1993 law that establishes voter registration procedures.
Article 1 of the Constitution explicitly grants the states and Congress the power to conduct elections, but not the president.
The Justice Department and the White House did not respond to requests for comment.
Several other courts around the country have also blocked Mr. Trump’s requests in recent months, ruling that they exceeded their authority.
The citizenship requirement is just one of several election-related requirements that President Trump has sought to implement during his administration. These include new regulations regarding mail-in voting, which also face legal challenges.
The election coverage requirements follow the president’s long-standing and baseless claims that elections he or other Republicans lost were fraudulent, including the 2020 presidential election he lost to then-Vice President Joe Biden.
