Supreme Court rejects Trump's request to stop California counting disputed votes — SkimNews
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- Supreme Court denied the Department of Justice's request for an injunction in a one-line Monday order, leaving lower-court rulings in place and effectively ending the administration's bid to disqualify 20,000 ballots.
- Department of Justice sent letters last month to the California secretary of state and Los Angeles County Registrar, demanding that ballots from 20,000 registered voters it believed were "likely" non-citizens be set aside.
- Department of Homeland Security deployed armed officials to deliver letters to county officials and employees across California about a week later, threatening criminal charges if they did not sequester those ballots.
- California election officials said the federal list was riddled with inaccuracies, warned eligible voters could be disenfranchised and called segregation unfeasible while voting was underway.
- David Carter described the move as an "ongoing pattern of attempted election interference" and said the federal government's attempt to coerce state and local election procedures had never occurred before in American history.
- California had received more than six million mail-in ballots by Sunday night, while about 23 million people were on the state's voting register.
Why it matters: California's 20,000 disputed ballots remain eligible for the count, preserving the votes of registered voters whom state officials said the federal list misidentified. With the midterms deciding congressional control for the final two years of Trump's second term, the denial also leaves the lower courts' rejection of the administration's election-coercion effort intact.
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