The U.S. The Supreme Court denied the Department of Justice’s last-minute attempt to intervene in California’s midterm elections.
On Monday, the DOJ filed a motion requesting that the Supreme Court set aside more than 20,000 ballots they claimed were submitted by non-U.S. citizens until they could be verified. The request was made less than a week after U.S. District Judge David O. Carter rejected the DOJ’s request , finding no legal basis for the demand.
“The United States’s requested relief is simple only in the abstract,” Carter wrote in the decision. “As the district court found—and we discern no clear error—there is no feasible way to identify and segregate the ballots of specific individuals without potentially catastrophic effects on the entire system.”
Officials countered the Trump administration’s request, saying that the list appeared to be filled with errors. The ballots were largely from Democrat voters.
Now, the Supreme Court – which has a history of siding with the Trump administration in emergency decisions – has rejected the DOJ’s last-ditch effort to intervene in the Golden State’s election.
The decision came hours after the DOJ’s filing, and the court did not deta...