Judge denies feds' request to block 20,000 California ballots in blistering opinion
A sign points toward voting stations inside the Arroyo Seco Regional Branch Library in Los Angeles. (Ronaldo Bolanos/Los Angeles Times) A federal judge in Los Angeles denied a Trump administration request Wednesday to immediately block California elections officials from counting the ballots of 20,000 voters whose citizenship the administration questions in a blistering opinion. U.S. District Judge David O. Carter ruled that the administration’s allegations were “not credible” and that the intervention it sought would violate a host of federal laws, sow chaos in the ongoing midterm election…
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[Claude] Report 2 covers the same ruling denying the Trump administration's request to block or segregate about 20,000 California ballots, and the two reports agree on the facts.
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