Court blocks bid by Trump DoJ to stop California from counting mail-in ballots
The court on Monday ruled 2-1 against Donald Trump’s justice department in the dispute, denying the administration’s demand that election officials segregate the thousands of ballots until people on the list could ver…
- Newsom accuses Trump of ‘assault on democracy’ as DoJ claims 20,000 registered voters in state are non-citizens A US federal appeals court rejected the Trump administration’s move to block California from counting the ballots of 20,000 registered voters that the justice department claims are non-citizens.
The court on Monday ruled 2-1 against Donald Trump’s justice department in the dispute, denying the administration’s demand that election officials segregate the thousands of ballots until people on the list could verify their citizenship.
US appeals court blocks government effort to stop California from tabulating ballots from list of alleged non-citizens.
The justice department had given the California secretary of state 48-hours to carry out the order, which state election officials refused – leading to the lawsuit.
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