US Supreme Court rejects Trump's bid to set aside 20,000 California ballots from suspected noncitizens on midterm eve
Every court to have ruled on the administration's ballot challenges — district, appeals and now the Supreme Court — has turned the government down.
The justices issued a one-line unsigned order with no noted dissents, turning down the Justice Department's emergency injunction request without even asking California to respond — an extraordinary signal of how little weight they gave the administration's arguments. The push had already been rejected by three lower courts, with district judge David Carter finding that the government's list of suspected noncitizens was 'rife with uncertainty and errors.'
A separate federal judge in Washington, James Boasberg, ruled the same day that dozens of confirmed citizens had appeared on the DOJ's flawed list, with circumstantial evidence pointing to thousands more.
California Governor Gavin Newsom said the Supreme Court 'firmly slapped down' the DOJ's attack 'not even entertaining it,' while Democratic congressman Ted Lieu told Attorney General Todd Blanche to 'shove it.'
The 9th Circuit also unanimously blocked a Homeland Security 'intimidation plan' targeting election officials, ruling armed and masked agents had been confronting voters who may be citizens.
