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Supreme court rules against Trump over bid to force California to set aside ballots

Global Published 3 November 2026, 04:09 · archived 2 Nov 2026

Justice department had ordered state to segregate and not count 20,000 ballots from people it claims are non-citizensThe supreme court on Monday ruled against the Trump administration and its attempts to force California election officials to segregate and not count ballots from people that the justice department claims are non-citizens. The ruling follows several lower courts siding with California officials, who argued the federal government was seeking to interfere in state elections.California and the Trump administration have been in a legal standoff over the past few weeks following the ...

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