If you thought from news coverage that a federal judge had completely knocked out President Donald Trump’s March 25 executive order, “Preserving and Protecting the Integrity of American Elections,” you’ve been misled (as usual) by the mainstream media.

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia only issued a preliminary injunction on April 24 against two of the five parts of the executive order that the Democratic National Committee, the League of Women Voters, and other partisans were challenging. And they didn’t even challenge numerous other provisions in the executive order.

The judge granted an injunction against Sections 2 (a) and (d) of the executive order. Section 2 (a) concerns the federal voter registration form established under the National Voter Registration Act. The U.S. Election Assistance Commission, an “independent” federal agency, has the statutory authority to regulate that form, including its contents and instructions for its use.

In Section 2 (a), the president directed the commission to require anyone using the federal registration form to register to vote to provide proof of U.S. citizenship and for the commission to include a list of acceptable documents to prove citizenship. Kollar-Kotelly enjoined the implementation of that directive because she said the challengers were likely to succeed in their claim that the president has no authority to order the commission to do that.

The judge held that since the Election Assistance Commission was created as a bipartisan commission by Congress and assigned it to administer the federal voter registration form, the president has no........

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