Judge rebuffs Trump DoJ’s bid to order California to set aside 20,000 ballots

Justice department had demanded state segregate ballots from people it claimed were non-citizens A federal judge declined to order California election officials to segregate ballots from people the Trump administration claimed were non-citizens, rebuffing a legally thin request from the justice department that appeared designed to cast doubt over the results of the midterms. The ruling from US district judge David Carter, nominated to the federal bench by Bill Clinton, comes about two weeks