The US Supreme Court has rejected a petition filed by the Trump administration seeking to compel California authorities to set aside 20,000 mail-in ballots. The request was grounded in the hypothesis that these ballots might have been delivered to individuals who are not American citizens.
The ruling, issued in the evening without any recorded dissenting votes, came as an unsigned order with no accompanying justification. This decision followed a legal sequence where the administration's lawyers approached the Supreme Court after a federal appeals court had previously dismissed their argument. The lower court had rejected the claim that California officials were required to seize the ballots for further verification.
The Supreme Court's intervention occurred on the same day the administration escalated its legal challenge, effectively ending the attempt to block the counting of these specific votes in the state.
Sources: ANSA Mondo.