Trump asks Supreme Court to block California mail ballots until verified
What happened
The US Supreme Court on Monday refused to stop California from counting mail ballots from more than 20,000 voters the Trump administration says are probably not citizens, according to the Guardian and DW.
The Justice Department had asked the court, on the eve of the midterm elections, to make California set those ballots aside until the voters' citizenship was verified.
The emergency request came after a federal appeals court rejected it on Friday, Folha reported.
California says its safeguards against non-citizen voting are strict and that the federal list is flawed and probably full of errors.
Los Angeles County clerk Dean Logan said the Justice Department has not provided the evidence, source or methodology behind its claims.
Judge David Carter, who rejected the initial lawsuit, wrote that never before has the federal government tried to coerce a state to abandon its own election procedures on the eve of an election.
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Open on the live globe →Who reported it
- 2026-11-02 17:27 UTCTimesLIVE via Reuters · timeslive.co.za ↗
- 2026-11-02 17:57 UTCSCMP via Reuters · scmp.com ↗
- 2026-11-02 18:20 UTCFolha · redir.folha.com.br ↗
- 2026-11-02 18:27 UTCCBC · cbc.ca ↗
- 2026-11-02 19:06 UTCAl Jazeera · aljazeera.com ↗
- 2026-11-02 19:13 UTCDW · dw.com ↗
- 2026-11-02 23:09 UTCGuardian · theguardian.com ↗
- 2026-11-02 23:50 UTCArab News · arabnews.com ↗
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