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Judge Questions Trump Administration’s Need to Target Noncitizen Voters

28. Oktober 2026 um 02:31
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.

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The Trump administration has pressed an effort to disqualify people it says are noncitizens from voting on Nov. 3.

Appeals Court Declines to Intervene in California Ballot Lawsuit

27. Oktober 2026 um 00:04
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.

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Ballots being processed in City of Industry, Calif., during last year’s election.

Justice Dept. Demands That California Counties Help Identify Noncitizen Voters

24. Oktober 2026 um 07:21
Election officials across the state received letters from the agency saying if they fail to comply, they “risk significant federal scrutiny.”

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A ballot processing center in Industry, Calif., last year. California elections rely heavily on mail voting.

What to Know About the Investigation Into Ilhan Omar’s Citizenship

23. Oktober 2026 um 02:04
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.

Judge Restricts D.H.S. Field Operations Aimed at Unearthing Voter Fraud

22. Oktober 2026 um 13:06
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.

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California voters casting ballots last November in a statewide special election.

DOJ Charges 28 California Residents With Voting-Related Crimes Amid Trump’s Voter Fraud Push

19. Oktober 2026 um 21:25
The effort by the Trump administration comes as it wages a broader fight with California officials over voter rolls.

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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.

Ilhan Omar’s Sister’s Phone Was Seized Before Search of Lawmaker’s Home

A criminal investigation into the lawmaker’s immigration process advanced after federal investigators reviewed family text messages from a seized phone.

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An officer carries a box from the Washington residence of Representative Ilhan Omar, during a search on Monday.

California Says D.O.J. System for Identifying Noncitizens Is Sloppy

17. Oktober 2026 um 01:45
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.

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Election Day for the primary in Huntington Beach, Calif., in June.

Trump Administration Sues California Over Voter Rolls

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.

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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.”

Trump Officials Ramp Up Investigations Into Voter Registration Groups

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.

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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.

Supreme Court, Taking On Trump Immigration Agenda, Will Review Migrant Detention Policy

01. Oktober 2026 um 15:50
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.

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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.

Here’s How Trump Is Building a National Citizenship Database to Check Voters

25. September 2026 um 19:02
The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to deploy a system that merges personal data from across the government. Questions remain about its reliability.

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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.

Trump’s Census Overhaul Would Exclude Some Immigrants and Remove Questions on Race

10. September 2026 um 01:21
The proposals for 2030 are among significant changes that would upend a process for helping allot congressional seats and shape policies that address disparities.

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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.

Judge Blocks Trump’s Second Try to Restrict Birthright Citizenship

03. September 2026 um 00:37
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.

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President Trump signed executive orders last month seeking to limit birthright citizenship.

Supreme Court Allows Trump to Pursue Mail Voting Limits, for Now

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.

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

Homeland Security Made a Big Claim About Noncitizen Voting. Now It Can’t Prove It.

20. August 2026 um 23:32
The Department of Homeland Security told Nevada election officials that it identified 185 “potential” noncitizens on the state’s voter rolls, not the nearly 16,000 it claimed last month.

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Nevada election officials have questioned the Trump administration’s claims that thousands of noncitizens are registered to vote in the state. Above, a poll worker stands in a polling location in Las Vegas during the state’s primary in June.

Trump’s Immigration Policy Echoes 1920s Crackdown, but This Time Congress Isn’t Involved

13. August 2026 um 19:08
U.S. leaders limited immigration amid economic and social turmoil. Historians see similarities to Trump’s crackdown, with a catch: He’s doing it without Congress.

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President Calvin Coolidge signing the restrictive Immigration Act of 1924 on the White House South Lawn.
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