Authored by Jack Phillips via The Epoch Times,
A U.S. appeals court has rejected the Trump administration's request to stop California from counting ballots from 20,000 potential noncitizen voters.
In a 39-page ruling, a panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit ruled 2-1 that it declines the administration's "invitation to contravene the Elections Clause by undermining the Constitution's plain text."
"If the United States believes different procedures are necessary for vote-by-mail ballots, we believe it should take that suggestion to Congress, not the courts," the majority stated.
A district court judge already denied that request and said that the Department of Justice's (DOJ) demands could disenfranchise citizens.
Referring to that ruling, the appeals court wrote, "As the district court found - and we discern no clear error - there is no feasible way to identify and segregate the ballots of specific individuals without potentially catastrophic effects on the entire system."
The panel rejected the government's emergency request for an injunction that would have barred the 20,000 ballots from being tallied until the voters' citizenship was verified. The midterm elections are set to b
