'Democracy WON': Gavin Newsom declares SCOTUS VICTORY over TRUMP

California Governor Gavin Newsom declaring victory over President Trump after the Supreme Court struck down his efforts to set aside 20,000 midterm ballots in California. The Justice Department has claimed that the ballots in question are from likely non-citizens and that California has not taken appropriate measures to prevent non-citizens from voting in this year's elections. The Supreme Court's order was only one sentence long and did not provide an explanation, simply writing that the injunction was denied. Governor Newsom wrote on X, quote, California just secured a historic Supreme Court defeat against Donald Trump. The court rejected Trump's emergency request without even asking the other side to respond. A first, democracy won, vote. This comes as the DOJ announced charges on Monday against six green card holders in California accused of voting illegally. That's in addition to the 28 others in the state who were also charged with the same crimes last month. The DOJ says the six individuals in question are from Mexico, Canada, Iran, Israel, and the Philippines. As the DOJ should, because it's illegal to not be a citizen and vote in our elections. The president, the problem is that he has failed to provide adequate proof that this is worth trying to Create major change days before an election. And no, they they're welcome to do their jobs. The federal law says that people who are not American citizens cannot vote in elections. And so 28 people out of the millions of people that cast ballots every year for every or each year we have an election. get caught as they should, they should get the proper punishment. The president does not need to upend our entire political and voting system based on a lie from 2020 that he lost because it was rigged and continue that narrative all the way up to 2026 because he wants to undermine our election. There's a distinct difference in what the strategy the president is implementing versus the proof that he has that it needs to be this dramatic. Sure, fine. The Supreme Court said you'd have to make the case. Yeah, they can't. Take your word for it. The 20,000 voters are not licensed to vote. They're not legal voters. And so they were not going to operate on that. Again, the idea that the Supreme Court is some that some liberals have that the Supreme Court is a rubber stamp of the Trump administration is, again, a false notion because they rule against him constantly on election stuff, on tariffs, on immigration issues again and again. Do you know how many people are voting in California? You're talking about 28 people? Do you know how many millions of people are voting in California and you want to be serious about? The Trump administration is allowed to pursue and prosecute anybody who's breaking the law, but 28 compared to millions goes back to all the Brennan Center studies and every study that I've referenced about the small, very minute percent of people that are committing election fraud and how it hasn't swayed any specific election. Okay, well, they say it's 20,000. That's a little bit more. No, they say it's 20,000, but they haven't provided adequate... Proof. So the Supreme Court and the lower courts all shut it down. This is not the first time the president has tried to push this forward. The lower courts said no. So that's why it went to a higher court. And this is what I'm saying. There's no proof of the 20,000 people. The real issue, by the way, is actually not that non-citizens are voting. It's that non-citizens are inflating the. Uh, the population levels of blue states. And so maybe they're not voting with the presence of non-citizens in California, they contribute to the census. So it gives California a greater population. And so it gives Florida more congressional representation and more electoral votes. And that is the major, um, unbalancing effect that illegal immigration is having. Yes. There are some of them in red States too, like Texas, but it's. And some people have also migrated here and have green cards and have work visas and so forth that are also contributing to census information because they live in these states. Okay, but there are millions of illegal immigrants. I'm telling you, there's also millions of people that have migrated here illegally. And so what are we talking about? You're saying that our data is thrown off. That's not what the president has been pursuing this entire election. I'm saying the census is not based on legal voters. It's based on people in the country. Yes, but the election is based on illegal voters, and there's no proof that anything otherwise has happened in the history of our election. So California and Illinois and New York get more electoral votes because they have illegal immigrants living in them. I'm saying that is the problem for, not so much that they're voting, but that they tip the scale. The problem for you may be that. The problem for the president has very specifically been that he thinks. That elections are rigged. That's a quote that he said. That he thinks that our election system is flawed. It's been problematic that he thinks people who are... Well, it is flawed if there's... Wait, he thinks that... No, because they're not voting. We're talking about the election. They don't need to be voting because there's more power... No, because you're moving the goalposts. You're moving the goalposts. The president said he wants to stop... No, I'm correcting the right. Illegal migrants. Illegal migrants from voting. I know, but the president's saying something different. He runs the entire country. And that's been my issue. Is that a couple of days before the election, you want now 20,000 different people who took the time to mail in their ballot. To be rescinded because you say so on top of the fact that we know that immigration authorities have been knocking in certain states from door to door, just questioning people about whether they have the right to vote, which also could cause intimidation. We know historically in our country, in our country, unfortunately, that can make people really uneasy. Why don't they just show up at the polls and show some ID? There's also been threats in the past about. Immigration authorities and other national or federal authorities being at the polls, which is illegal, and that happening for no reason. And the president has denied it. If there's no illegal immigrants voting at the polls, Lindsay, then what is the issue? That's what I said. If it's 28 of the millions in California, then why would ICE be at the polls? It makes no sense. Like for the numbers. Because they suspect illegal immigrants are voting. No, well, then that's why the law works. And that's why we saw the DOJ is doing its job. The law works. So you arrest the 28 people prior to the voting or right after the voting, rescind their votes and do your job. But you don't put fear in the entire voting population. But we haven't caught thousands more. Yeah, but the concern is that even when you look at conservative think tanks that are doing studies on this, you should see that even though they try to find sufficient information to prove that our elections may be fraudulent, they failed because they put out the information from this is not enough. Well. The answer to that could be because not enough of them have been caught and apprehended and prosecuted. They can only go based on the data they have. They have the data from the people who were successfully caught or stopped. That doesn't apply to any other argument that you make. No, it doesn't. That's like, you want me to find the crime later and just say you deserve to be a criminal and find the crime later? They don't have proof of crime. The president does not have a proof of a crime. So that's like me saying, Robby needs to be in jail and I'll figure out the crime later. People are always inferring that there's far more, the prevalence of, for For instance, sexual violence is. Far beyond what actually gets prosecuted or dealt with by the legal system, that it's like one in three people on American college campuses, which sounds- Which is true, because people might say these things, but they're not prosecuting- That would have a higher rape rate than Somalia, but- They're not prosecuting on these things. Okay, that's what we're saying about the voting. That's exactly what we're saying about the voting. The president is actively trying to prosecute, and the president is actually trying to- Demolish our elections based on no proof. No proof. What are you saying? Who is actively trying to rip apart these college campuses? People are making awareness so that women can protect themselves in college campuses. I don't even know how this conversation got over here. I'm just coming up with an example of something that I think is far more prevalent than actual criminal prosecutions would suggest. The precautions can be put in place. A prominent here than in Somalia, which seems unlikely to me. But I think that the president needs to point to the problem and point to the exact proof that he hasn't prosecuted the problem, because that's how our law works. Well, he's trying to do that. And the Supreme Court has said no. So he has to assemble more. Everybody's wrong besides him. The president also does not control. He's not wrong about the millions of illegal immigrants who are here. We have we have several ways before somebody actually. Submits their ballot to protect from election fraud. And also federal law that says people who are not Well, I know, but his concern is that the state might not have incentive to police this because it's benefiting the people who run the state of California. No, there's not some big conspiracy against President Trump. He lost in 2020 and he's losing his argument There's not even a small conspiracy against President Trump. OK. All right. The Hill will be live on election night, which is tonight, starting at 7 p.m. News Nation's Corey Smith and The Hill's Drew Petrimo will be moderating. We'll have contributions from us and News Nation's Chris Stirewalt and other special guests You won't want to miss it. See you tonight.