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DOJ drops suit against California
Headline from Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
LOS ANGELES -- The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday requested to dismiss its own lawsuit that sought to stop California from counting roughly 20,000 ballots it claimed went to noncitizens until their immigration statuses could be verified.
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Federal prosecutors admitted in the motion to dismiss that by the time of the upcoming hearing, the state will have already "commingled the challenged ballots with lawful ones," and would therefore no longer be necessary.
FILE – Ballots are sorted the day after California’s primary election at the LA County Ballot Processing Center, June 3, 2026, in City of Industry, Calif. (AP Photo/Jae C. Hong, File)
Los Angeles (AP) — The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday moved to dismiss its own lawsuit that sought to stop California from counting roughly 20,000 ballots it alleged went to noncitizens until their immigration status could be verified.
The Trump administration's emergency request to sequester 20,000 California ballots it alleged were sent to "likely noncitizens" had been rejected by the Supreme Court and lower federal courts.
The Justice Department moved to dismiss its own lawsuit that sought to stop California from counting roughly 20,000 ballots it alleged went to noncitizens.
Days after the midterm election, federal prosecutors abandoned their effort to separate roughly 20,000 disputed ballots after courts rejected the Trump administration's emergency requests.
The Justice Department filed a notice of dismissal after it failed to persuade three courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, to make California verify ballots were cast by U.S. citizens.
The U.S. Department of Justice moved to dismiss its lawsuit that sought to stop California from counting roughly 20,000 ballots it alleged went to noncitizens until their immigration status could be verified.
The Justice Department (DOJ) requested Friday to dismiss its lawsuit against California, which sought to make the state's election officials set aside roughly 20,000 ballots for voters the federal government alleged were not U.S. citizens.
Federal officials had claimed the administration had cross-referenced an assortment of databases to produce a list of “likely noncitizens” that it alleged were on voter rolls in California.
The move comes days after Republicans' significant losses in the midterm elections and about a week before a scheduled hearing where a special master was slated to evaluate the accuracy of the list of alleged noncitizens.
LOS ANGELES -- The U.S. Department of Justice on Friday requested to dismiss its own lawsuit that sought to stop California from counting roughly 20,000 ballots it claimed went to noncitizens until their immigration statuses could be verified.
The Justice Department unsuccessfully attempted to force California election workers to set aside mail ballots returned from up to 20,000 alleged noncitizens.
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