A federal judge has agreed with voting rights groups and Democrats that the Constitution gives the power to regulate federal elections to states and Congress — not the president.

A U.S. judge on Thursday blocked parts of President Donald Trump's executive order seeking to impose new rules on federal elections, which Democrats and other groups said risked denying eligible citizens the right to vote.

A federal judge has blocked key parts of President Donald Trump’s attempt to make it harder to register to vote without providing documents proving U.S. citizenship. U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly ruled Thursday that Trump’s sweeping executive order requiring federal agencies to impose the new voter registration standards was an attempt to usurp the powers of Congress and the states.