US Supreme court rejects Trump request to set aside 20,000 California ballots

This Supreme Court decision should put an end to what has been a weeks-long battle between the state of California and the Department of Justice over how the Golden State runs its elections. Back in September, the Department of Justice came out with a list of approximately 20,000 people saying they are non-citizens taking part in federal elections, which is of course highly illegal. California has contested that, citing that the federal government has not demonstrated that those 20,000 people are actually non-citizens. County officials have found that That many of the people on ...on that list do not have active voter registrations and were not mailed ballots. And over the weekend, a group of data scientists with UCLA's Voting Rights Project was granted access to that list and found that 42% of the people on that list do not appear on California's current voter roll. And a number of U.S. citizens who were granted citizenship through naturalization are on that list, people who are legally allowed to take part in those elections. Now, the Department of Justice has framed this as something it is legally bound to do, which is to prevent There's illegal voting from happening, but again, it appears that the Supreme Court has sided against Trump with California, appearing to uphold one of the longstanding principles in election law, which is to not change election rules so close to election day.