The US supreme court on Monday quickly rejected the Trump administration’s request to force California to set aside thousands of mail ballots from people President Donald Trump’s administration claims are noncitizens, the Associated Press reports.
The high court refused to intervene in a case involving 20,000 people the Republican administration flagged as likely noncitizens on the largely Democratic state’s voter rolls. The decision came just hours after the administration asked the supreme court to intervene.
The ruling was the latest judicial rebuke in the face of a wave of unprecedented efforts from the Trump administration to intervene in the elections process of multiple states. The midterm elections are expected to bring nationwide victories for Democrats and impose more Congressional checks on Trump’s power.
In California, the Trump administration had asked the high court to set aside the challenged ballots until the voters’ citizenship status could be verified. But officials there said that the list appeared to be filled with errors and that setting the ballots aside could effectively disenfranchise legal voters.
The high court did not detail its reasoning for rejecting the Trump administration’s request, as is common in emergency decisions. The justices previously rejected Trump’s push to restrict mail ballots around the country in September, even though the justices have sided with his administration in a series of other emergency docket appeals.
Source: www.theguardian.com
