A federal judge in Washington, D.C., on Friday sided with civil rights groups that sued the Trump administration over an executive order requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote.

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly wrote in her decision that the responsibility for election regulation is in the hands of the states and Congress, as stated in the Constitution, and "that the President lacks the authority to direct such changes."

She later added, "The Constitution’s allocation of authority over federal elections between Congress and the States may not be intuitive. But it is no accident. Instead, this design was the product of carefully considered compromises among our Constitution’s Framers."

Kollar-Kotelly also ruled that the U.S. Election Assistance Commission is permanently barred from incorporating........

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