The US Supreme Court on Monday denied the Trump Administration’s last-minute bid to force California to segregate 20,000 ballots mailed to non-citizens.
“The application for injunction pending appeal presented to Justice Kagan and by her referred to the Court is denied,” the unsigned order said with no noted dissents.
The Justice Department recently sued California and Los Angeles County over 20,000 suspected non-citizens registered to vote who have already been mailed ballots.
First Assistant US Attorney Bill Essayli said that voter rolls were compared to USCIS immigration, Social Security and passport records.
After a battle in the District Court with a Clinton-appointed judge, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday night rejected the DOJ’s bid to force California to segregate the ballots in question.
On Friday, in a 2-1 vote, a three-judge panel on the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Justice Department’s request to block 20,000 ballots from being counted.
The three judges included: Majority: Mark Bennett (Trump) Gabriel Sanchez (Biden) – Dissent: Patrick Bumatay (Trump).
“Major concerns remain that granting the United States’s requested relief might result in immense hardship to Defendants and harm the public interest by risking the disenfranchisement of eligible voters and putting the entire tabulation process in jeopardy,” the majority wrote.
On Saturday, President Trump fumed over the Appeals Court’s decision to deny the DOJ’s request to segregate the ballots.
“[Bill Essayli] caught a massive number of Illegal Votes, 20,000, but potentially Hundreds of Thousands, and maybe even Millions, and the Court has just ruled against it. Why would they reject fixing Election Fraud?” Trump said.
Earlier Monday the DOJ filed an emergency petition with the Supreme Court.
“In addition, because the United States’ irreparable injury is ongoing, the United States respectfully requests an administrative injunction pending the Court’s consideration of this application,” John Sauer wrote.
“Congress has made it “unlawful for any alien to vote” in any federal election. 18 U.S.C. 611. Enforcing that exclusion of aliens is “part of the sovereign’s obligation ‘to preserve the basic conception of a political community,’”” Sauer wrote.
“The only way to preserve the district court’s ability to grant relief to the United States after a full merits proceeding, therefore, is to segregate the challenged ballots now. That remedy would not cause any undue hardship to California,” the DOJ’s Solicitor General John Sauer wrote earlier Monday in a petition to the Supreme Court.
This article originally appeared on The Gateway Pundit.com.
