WASHINGTON: In a significant legal setback for the Trump administration, the US Supreme Court has ruled against its attempt to force California election officials to set aside and withhold approximately 20,000 ballots linked to individuals the Justice Department alleges are non-US citizens.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The ruling marks another major defeat for the administration, which had sought to prevent the counting of ballots belonging to people identified on a federal government list of suspected non-citizen voters.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
WASHINGTON: In a significant legal setback for the Trump administration, the US Supreme Court has ruled against its attempt to force California election officials to set aside and withhold approximately 20,000 ballots linked to individuals the Justice Department alleges are non-US citizens. The ruling marks another major defeat for the administration, which had sought to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2116,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_eb_attr":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[11,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2657","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest","category-world"],"yoast_head":"\n