Judge rejects Trump administration request for order to segregate 20,000 California ballots – ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and Videos

Judge rejects Trump administration request for order to segregate 20,000 California ballots  ABC News – Breaking News, Latest News and Videos

The Justice Department sought an emergency order in the case. A federal judge in California has rejected the Justice Department's push for an emergency order to have California segregate roughly 20,000 ballots belonging to individuals the Trump administration has claimed are "likely" noncitizens. "Never before in American history has the federal government, on the eve of an election, sought to coerce a state and local government to abandon their own Constitutional elections procedures and bend to the will of the Executive Branch," U.S .District Judge David Carter wrote in his Wednesday order.

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