Judge rejects Trump admin request for order to segregate 20,000 Calif. ballots
Summary
A federal judge in California rejected the Justice Department’s request for an emergency order requiring the state to segregate about 20,000 ballots. The administration had said the ballots belonged to people it considered “likely” noncitizens.Key Facts
- The Justice Department sought an emergency order to segregate the ballots.
- The ballots are in California.
- The administration identified roughly 20,000 ballots as belonging to people it claimed were likely noncitizens.
- U.S. District Judge David Carter rejected the request on Wednesday.
- Carter wrote that the federal government had never before sought, on the eve of an election, to make state and local governments abandon their election procedures.
- The article described the case as a developing story.
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