In Washington, a federal judge pressed pause on a key part of Trump’s bid to enforce sweeping changes to voting and election registration.

Opponents claimed his executive order requiring people to produce a document proving their citizenship before voting overstepped his presidential authority.

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In San Francisco, another U.S. District Court Judge William Orrick barred the president from denying federal funds for “sanctuary” cities across the United States.

He ruled that the administration was prohibited “from directly or indirectly taking any action to withhold, freeze, or condition federal funds.”

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The judge said the education department did not “even define what a ‘DEI program’ is” when it wrote to schools enforcing the change.

“A professor runs afoul of the 2025 Letter if she expresses the view in her teaching that structural racism exists in America, but does not do so if she denies structural racism’s existence. That is textbook viewpoint discrimination,” she said.