A federal judge just blocked President Trump’s executive order requiring documented proof of citizenship when registering to vote.

The judge is an Obama-appointee.

Here’s more via CNN:

A federal judge in Massachusetts on Friday blocked part of President Donald Trump’s executive order that seeks to revamp how elections are run in the United States.

Judge Denise Casper issued a preliminary injunction halting requirements to show written proof of US citizenship when registering to vote in elections and Trump’s effort to prohibit states from counting mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day. The mail-in ballot ruling applies only in states that filed the lawsuit.

Non-citizens are already prohibited from voting in federal elections, but opponents of the executive order argue that requiring the documentary proof of citizenship will deter people from registering.

Casper, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, cited examples such as college students or immigrants who don’t have access to a birth certificate or passport.

The executive order, Casper wrote, “would burden the States with significant efforts and substantial costs to revamp voter registration procedures and would impede the registration of eligible voters, many of whom lack ready access to documentary evidence of citizenship (e.g., U.S. passport and other forms of identification that reflect citizenship).”

We all know that voter registration fraud is the biggest culprit that leads to voter fraud, and it’s something that even Obama was involved in before he was president. It’s how the left gets away with so much voter fraud and this executive order by President Trump is not only common sense, but absolutely necessary. Hopefully an appeals court will stay this decision soon.