The US Supreme Court rejects Trump's election-eve bid to set aside 20,000 California ballots flagged for possible noncitizen voting
Sen. Dan Sullivan (left) and fellow Senate candidate Dan Sullivan, whose presence on Alaska's ballot prompted the Trump administration to file a lawsuit it claimed risked voter confusion — a case a federal judge dismissed as "infeasible" after ballots were already cast.
The Supreme Court's one-sentence order carried no explanation and recorded no dissents, delivering a swift and total defeat to the Justice Department on the eve of the US midterm elections. The DOJ had claimed more than 20,000 names on California's voter rolls belonged to noncitizens, but California and immigration rights groups disputed the list's accuracy — with an independent analysis finding 4 in 10 flagged names were not even on the state's rolls.
The DOJ separately charged six more people in its California 'voter fraud' crackdown even as its ballot-segregation bid collapsed in court.
A judge warned DOJ lawyers there would be 'hell to pay' after they wavered over the deployment of Election Day monitors, with a court hearing described as 'wild' after a DOJ attorney was accused of lying to the judge.
Governor Gavin Newsom warned the DOJ would attempt to physically seize ballots and vowed California would prosecute anyone who 'meddles' with voters.
