Judge rebuffs Trump DoJ’s bid to order California to set aside 20,000 ballots
Summary
A federal judge declined the Justice Department’s request to require California to set aside ballots linked to people the Trump administration identified as possible non-citizens. The department said its list named 20,000 people, but California officials reported preliminary signs of errors, and the Ninth Circuit had already rejected the department’s effort to speed up the case.Key Facts
- U.S. District Judge David Carter rejected the Justice Department’s request for California to sequester the ballots.
- The Justice Department delivered a USB drive with names of 20,000 people it said were non-citizens on California’s voter rolls.
- California has more than 23 million registered voters, and the article says non-citizen voting is extremely rare.
- The Justice Department gave officials 48 hours to review the list and threatened to sue if the state did not set aside the ballots.
- Los Angeles officials found preliminary indicators that the list was inaccurate.
- The Justice Department filed suit against California on October 15, seeking to require the state to set aside the ballots and verify citizenship.
- A Ninth Circuit panel ruled 2-1 against the Justice Department’s attempt to bypass Carter and obtain faster consideration.
- The Department of Homeland Security said in July that it had identified up to 190,000 non-citizens on California’s voter rolls, but provided further details only after ballots had been sent.
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