Trump lawyers ask Supreme Court to set aside 20,000 California ballots

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Set us as preferred WASHINGTON  — On the day before the midterm election, Trump administration lawyers asked the Supreme Court to intervene and set aside ballots from 20,000 California voters who the administration says may not be citizens.Solicitor Gen.D.

John Sauer filed an emergency appeal on Monday.“The Court should issue a limited injunction directing California to stop commingling suspected illegal ballots with legal ones,” he wrote, “pending completion of the United States’ appeal to the 9th Circuit and further review in this Court.”He said the court should require “California to segregate mail ballots from persons whom the United States has identified as likely non-citizens.

The court should also enter an administrative injunction to that effect while it considers this application.”It’s not clear whether the court will see this as an emergency.The appeal goes first to Justice Elena Kagan.She could ask for a response from California, which would take days.

So far, the administration has lost before a federal judge in Los Angeles and twice at the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco.Those judges said that Trump’s lawyers were wrong on the Constitution and that their complaint came too late for this election.

In May, more than 23 million Californians were registered to vote, and the majority lean in favor of Democrats.But Trump claimed again last week “there are hundreds of thousands of bad ballots, bad votes, in California.

Millions, in my opinion.” Politics Federal judges have repeatedly rejected the Trump administration’s efforts to wrest control over state voting processes and intimidate state and local elections officials.In mid-October, the Trump administration sued and said federal courts should require California and Los Angeles County to “set aside vote-by-mail ballots f...