Judge denounces DOJ lawsuit over California mail ballots
Summary
A federal judge condemned the Justice Department’s lawsuit seeking to make California set aside mail ballots linked to as many as 20,000 suspected noncitizens. The department moved to dismiss the case after courts rejected its request for emergency relief, and Judge David Carter closed the case and canceled a scheduled hearing.Key Facts
- The Justice Department sued California officials and Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder Dean Logan in mid-October.
- The department alleged that more than 20,000 people it believed were not U.S. citizens were registered to vote in California.
- The lawsuit sought to require election workers to separate ballots returned by people identified as suspected noncitizens and hold them until their citizenship could be checked.
- California voting had begun, and hundreds of thousands of mail ballots had been returned when the department filed suit.
- Judge David Carter rejected the request to set aside the ballots.
- The Justice Department sought similar relief from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals and the Supreme Court, but did not obtain it.
- The department told Carter it would voluntarily dismiss the case, saying the requested ballot separation was no longer possible.
- Carter wrote that the lawsuit sought to disrupt an ongoing election and create confusion, then closed the case and canceled Friday’s hearing.
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