Move comes despite Trump administration entreaty to drop the case

PHOENIX — The Trump administration may be out, but a federal judge isn’t reversing her ruling that voided provisions of a 2022 Arizona law designed to require proof of citizenship to vote on federal races.

In a new order, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton acknowledged that the federal government no longer wants any part of the lawsuit it filed against the state when Joe Biden was president to protect the rights of voters. She actually issued a ruling finding some of what is in that law illegal, though there are still other legal issues to be resolved.

But Bolton rejected a bid by the attorneys for the Department of Justice, now under Trump, to say she should vacate that judgment, at least as far the federal governmen

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