Local Politics
Supreme Court Rejects Bid to Set Aside 20,000 California Ballots Before Election
The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday rejected the Trump administration's emergency request to force California to segregate ballots of approximately 20,000 voters identified by the Justice Department as potential noncitizens, issuing a one-sentence order with no noted dissents. The ruling followed prior rejections by a federal appeals court and a U.S. district judge. Separately, federal prosecutors charged six people in California with registering or voting as noncitizens, bringing the total facing such accusations to 34 over two weeks. A federal judge in Oakland had previously called the government's database "flawed" and ordered DHS to halt field investigations using it until after polls closed Tuesday. An election workers union filed suit in San Jose seeking to prevent federal prosecution threats against ballot processors.