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Appeals Court Again Rejects Trump Effort to Impound California Ballots

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Zach Montague
In a 2-to-1 vote, an appeals court panel declined to order the state to set aside more than 20,000 mail-in ballots, calling the notion plainly unconstitutional.

© Mike Kai Chen for The New York Times

Election workers verified the delivery of mail-in ballots collected by police officers from ballot drop boxes in California in August.
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If Trump Gets Another Supreme Court Pick, MAGA Wants a Loyalist

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Mattathias Schwartz
For years, Supreme Court aspirants have avoided talking about how they might rule. Trump’s frustrations with his first-term picks could change that.

© Amir Hamja/The New York Times

President Trump’s three first-term Supreme Court picks have moved the court’s jurisprudence to the right on issues like abortion and gerrymandering. But they have sometimes voted against his sweeping second-term agenda.
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Trump Administration Pressures California With Expanded Voter Fraud Investigation

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Devlin Barrett and Shawn Hubler
The department has issued grand jury subpoenas to local election officials as part of a widening effort to prove unsubstantiated claims about large numbers of illegal voters in the state.

© Philip Cheung for The New York Times

Voters casting their ballots in Los Angeles in June. At least two employees of Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder’s office received grand jury subpoenas last week.
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Ilhan Omar Investigation Involves New Scrutiny of Long-Disputed Marriage

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Ernesto Londoño
Several current and former law enforcement officials said an Obama-era investigation found some evidence that Ms. Omar had entered into a sham marriage with a man suspected of being her brother.

© Tierney L. Cross/The New York Times

Representative Ilhan Omar at the Capitol in Washington earlier this year.
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Judge Questions Trump Administration’s Need to Target Noncitizen Voters

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Shawn Hubler
In the legal tangle between the Justice Department and California, a federal judge on Tuesday deferred a ruling but said the government already had a remedy it could use after the election.

© Philip Cheung for The New York Times

The Trump administration has pressed an effort to disqualify people it says are noncitizens from voting on Nov. 3.
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Appeals Court Declines to Intervene in California Ballot Lawsuit

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Zach Montague
By a 2-1 vote, a federal appeals court panel denied the Trump administration’s request that it immediately order the state to set aside 20,000 mail-in ballots.

© Philip Cheung for The New York Times

Ballots being processed in City of Industry, Calif., during last year’s election.
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Justice Dept. Demands That California Counties Help Identify Noncitizen Voters

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Laurel Rosenhall and Shawn Hubler
Election officials across the state received letters from the agency saying if they fail to comply, they “risk significant federal scrutiny.”

© Philip Cheung for The New York Times

A ballot processing center in Industry, Calif., last year. California elections rely heavily on mail voting.
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What to Know About the Investigation Into Ilhan Omar’s Citizenship

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Ernesto Londoño
The Justice Department is reviewing whether Representative Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, broke the law when she became a U.S. citizen decades ago. Here’s what we know.

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Representative Ilhan Omar at the U.S. Capitol this year.
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Judge Restricts D.H.S. Field Operations Aimed at Unearthing Voter Fraud

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Zach Montague and Shawn Hubler
The ruling largely blocked homeland security agents from carrying out field interviews in nine states, including California, as part of a sprawling effort to find noncitizens registered to vote.

© Philip Cheung for The New York Times

California voters casting ballots last November in a statewide special election.
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DOJ Charges 28 California Residents With Voting-Related Crimes Amid Trump’s Voter Fraud Push

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Devlin Barrett
The effort by the Trump administration comes as it wages a broader fight with California officials over voter rolls.

© Isadora Kosofsky for The New York Times

Voters waiting to cast their ballots at Beverly Hills City Hall in November 2024. The Trump administration has been engaged in a far-reaching effort to find, arrest and publicize instances of voter fraud.
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Ilhan Omar’s Sister’s Phone Was Seized Before Search of Lawmaker’s Home

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Ernesto Londoño · Alan Feuer and Hamed Aleaziz
A criminal investigation into the lawmaker’s immigration process advanced after federal investigators reviewed family text messages from a seized phone.

© J. Scott Applewhite/Associated Press

An officer carries a box from the Washington residence of Representative Ilhan Omar, during a search on Monday.
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California Says D.O.J. System for Identifying Noncitizens Is Sloppy

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Shawn Hubler and Nicholas Nehamas
State and local officials said that they received thousands of names lacking key identifying information, and that many of the names were paired with addresses over which they had no jurisdiction.

© Gabriela Bhaskar/The New York Times

Election Day for the primary in Huntington Beach, Calif., in June.
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Trump Administration Sues California Over Voter Rolls

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Devlin Barrett and Laurel Rosenhall
The lawsuit seeks to temporarily block the state from counting mail ballots of voters it claims are likely noncitizens, opening a new front in the administration’s legal fights with election officials.

© Patrick T. Fallon/Agence France-Presse — Getty Images

A lawsuit from the Trump administration is seeking a court order to force California to not count — at least in the short term — any mail ballots received from some 20,000 people in the state the administration claims are “likely noncitizens.”
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Trump Officials Ramp Up Investigations Into Voter Registration Groups

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Madeleine Ngo · Richard Fausset and Alexandra Berzon
The Trump administration is investigating nonprofits that it says may be recruiting noncitizens for voter registration, documents show, even though noncitizen voting in the United States is rare.

© Will Warasila for The New York Times

With control of Congress and the future of President Trump’s agenda at stake, Democrats are concerned that false claims about rampant illegal voting could be used by Republicans to challenge the results of the midterms.
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Supreme Court, Taking On Trump Immigration Agenda, Will Review Migrant Detention Policy

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Ann E. Marimow
The administration’s policy of detaining immigrants who crossed the border illegally years ago and holding them without a bond hearing has divided lower courts.

© Tierney L. Cross for The New York Times

The Supreme Court will be considering the legality of some of the most controversial aspects of the Trump administration’s efforts to rapidly expel millions of migrants living in the United States.
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Here’s How Trump Is Building a National Citizenship Database to Check Voters

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Nicholas Nehamas and Zach Montague
The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to deploy a system that merges personal data from across the government. Questions remain about its reliability.

© Jamie Kelter Davis for The New York Times

In advance of the upcoming midterm elections, the Trump administration has embarked on an intensive campaign to prove that noncitizens are voting illegally, despite evidence that it is very rare.
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Trump’s Census Overhaul Would Exclude Some Immigrants and Remove Questions on Race

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Zolan Kanno-Youngs
The proposals for 2030 are among significant changes that would upend a process for helping allot congressional seats and shape policies that address disparities.

© Jeenah Moon for The New York Times

A naturalization ceremony at Ellis Island in 2022. The Trump administration has proposed new census regulations that would no longer ask Americans about race, ethnicity and sexual orientation, and would exclude noncitizens without green cards.
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Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Allow Voter-Screening Tool

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Abbie VanSickle
Voting rights organizations had challenged a Trump administration overhaul of a government database, arguing it could be used to disenfranchise eligible voters.

© Mike Kai Chen for The New York Times

Election workers in Fremont, Calif., last month.
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Judge Blocks Trump’s Second Try to Restrict Birthright Citizenship

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Zach Montague
The ruling raised concerns that babies already defined as citizens by the Supreme Court could have their citizenship revoked under an order the president signed in August.

© Haiyun Jiang/The New York Times

President Trump signed executive orders last month seeking to limit birthright citizenship.
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Supreme Court Allows Trump to Pursue Mail Voting Limits, for Now

✇NYT > U.S. News
Von: Abbie VanSickle and Ann E. Marimow
The administration asked the court to clear the way for President Trump’s order that creates “state citizenship lists” and directs the Postal Service to decide who gets a mail-in ballot.

© Nick Hagen for The New York Times

Volunteers processing mail-in ballots on Nov. 5, 2024, in Dearborn, Mich.
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