Trump administration asks U.S. Supreme Court to sideline 20,000 California mail ballots
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected a request from the Trump administration to set aside 20,000 mail-in ballots in California that were flagged as potentially belonging to non-citizens. The court provided no reasoning for the decision, which occurred just before the midterm elections.
Why it matters
This decision impacts election integrity debates and the legal standards for verifying voter eligibility in the United States.
The federal government says those ballots should not be counted until the voters’ status can be verified. Mariam Zuhaib/The Associated Press
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected a push for California to set aside thousands of mail ballots from people U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration claims are non-citizens, a decision that comes on the eve of the final day of voting in the pivotal midterm elections.
The high court refused to intervene in a case involving 20,000 people the Republican administration flagged as likely non-citizens on the largely Democratic state’s voter rolls.
The swift rejection was the latest in a flurry of election-related litigation the day before the elections, which will decide control of Congress for the last two years of Trump’s second term. No justices publicly dissented.
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