Trump’s California ballot appeal puts Supreme Court in center of fight over allegations of noncitizen voting | CNN Politics
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President Donald Trump on Monday urged the Supreme Court to force California to set aside potentially thousands of ballots the Justice Department claims may have been cast by noncitizens, a longshot request that multiple lower courts have rejected.
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President Donald Trump on Monday urged the Supreme Court to force California to set aside potentially thousands of ballots the Justice Department claims may have been cast by noncitizens, a longshot request that multiple lower courts have rejected.
The appeal puts the Supreme Court’s 6-3 conservative majority in the position of weighing in on Trump’s sweeping allegations of widespread noncitizen voting based on an uncertain record and an exceedingly fast timeline.
