Politics
Supreme Court Rejects Trump Administration Bid to Set Aside California Ballots
AP News · 4 hours ago · Read the Full Story on AP News
AI SUMMARY
The U.S. Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration's emergency request to force California to set aside thousands of ballots from voters flagged as potential noncitizens.
- The U.S. Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration's emergency request to force California to set aside thousands of ballots hours before the final day of midterm voting.
- The case involved 20,000 individuals flagged by the Republican administration as likely noncitizens on California's voter rolls.
- No Supreme Court justices publicly dissented from the decision, which was made without asking the opposing side to respond.
- California's Attorney General Rob Bonta noted that courts have rejected the Trump administration's attempts to interfere in the state's elections four times.
- Federal judge James Boasberg ruled that the administration's last-minute demands violated the U.S. Constitution's Elections Clause.
- Department of Justice attorney Kenneth Kao acknowledged during a hearing that there is a high error rate in the data used to compile the list of challenged voters.
- California election officials stated that finding and setting aside the challenged ballots would be logistically impossible as hundreds of thousands of votes have already been processed.
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