“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,”

David Carter · said 2026-10-28 · reported 2026-10-30

A federal judge in California rejected DOJ's push for an emergency order to have California segregate roughly 20,000 ballots the Trump administration claimed belong to likely noncitizens.