ALI SWENSON and CHRISTINA A. CASSIDY.

FILE - A voter fills out a ballot at the MetraPark events center, June 4, 2024, in Billings, Mont. (AP Photo/Matthew Brown, FIle)

Judge limits a small part of a court order blocking Trump’s election overhaul as lawsuits continue

A federal judge has modified part of a previous ruling that blocked much of President Donald Trump’s sweeping executive order seeking to overhaul elections in the U.S. The minor change affects just one aspect of a preliminary injunction that U.S. District Court Judge Denise J. Casper granted on June 13 in a case filed by Democratic state attorneys general. The judge said Friday that the part of Trump’s executive order directing certain federal agencies to assess people’s U.S. citizenship when they ask for voter registration forms will now only be blocked in the 19 states that filed the lawsuit.

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