Judge rebuffs Trump DoJ’s bid to force California to set aside 20,000 ballots
While the judge rejected the Department of Justice's unprecedented demand in California, the case isn't over yet.
Key points
- The ruling from US district judge David Carter, nominated to the federal bench by Bill Clinton, comes about two weeks after the justice department delivered a USB drive to election officials in Los Angeles and Sacramento that it said contained the names of 20,000 non-citizens on the state’s voter rolls.
- The federal government immediately filed notice that it will appeal.
The judge ruled that no immediate action was necessary, dealing another setback to the administration as it moves to target voting by noncitizens.
There are more than 23 million registered voters in California and non-citizen voting is extremely rare.
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