Supreme Court Faces Midterm Test as Trump Demands Ballots Set Aside
Summary
The Trump administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court to require California to keep about 20,000 challenged mail-in ballots separate while a legal case proceeds. Federal officials say the voters may be noncitizens, but have not confirmed their citizenship status or whether they voted.Key Facts
- Solicitor General D. John Sauer filed an emergency appeal asking the Supreme Court for an injunction.
- The request would keep the ballots separate; it does not seek to discard them.
- The federal government says a review of voter and immigration records identified more than 20,000 people who may be noncitizens registered to vote in California.
- Federal officials provided the list to California Secretary of State Shirley Weber and Los Angeles County Clerk Dean Logan on October 13.
- The government has not confirmed that the people on the list are noncitizens or that they cast ballots.
- A federal district court rejected the government's request, finding it lacked standing.
- The Ninth Circuit also rejected the request, saying the government had not shown enough evidence of irreparable harm.
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