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Court Enjoins Pre-Election Demands For Alleged Noncitizen Voter Lists · GNM News

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  Speaker 1: A federal judge has issued a formal court order directing
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  Speaker 1: the Department of Justice to immediately halt its attempts to
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  Speaker 1: threaten and intimidate California state and local election officials regarding
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  Speaker 1: a disputed list of alleged non-citizen voters. The injunction, handed
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  Speaker 1: down in federal district court. blocks federal prosecutors from issuing
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  Speaker 1: grand jury subpoenas or pursuing emergency enforcement demands against county
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  Speaker 1: registrars who refuse to process federal voter purge directives in
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  Speaker 1: the final hours before the 2026 midterm elections. In a
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  Speaker 1: sharp rebuke of the administration's legal strategy, the court ruled
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  Speaker 1: that the Department of Justice's aggressive pre-election demands violate longstanding
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  Speaker 1: constitutional principles of federalism. which delegate primary authority over election
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  Speaker 1: administration and ballot qualification to individual states. The federal judge
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  Speaker 1: noted that forcing county officials to act on external, unverified
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  Speaker 1: data on the eve of balloting creates severe risks of
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  Speaker 1: voter disenfranchisement and unlawfully interrupts state-mandated voter registration verification timelines
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  Speaker 1: established under the National Voter Registration Act. The ruling arrives
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  Speaker 1: alongside a separate judicial decision ordering the Justice Department to
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  Speaker 1: disclose its full list of roughly 20,000 flagged individuals to
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  Speaker 1: voting rights groups and legal teams, including the UCLA Voting
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  Speaker 1: Rights Project. Initial data analyses of the department's list revealed
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  Speaker 1: widespread errors, with state officials and voting rights organizations discovering
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  Speaker 1: that dozens of individuals marked for potential purging were born
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  Speaker 1: in the United States or are verified naturalized citizens. State
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  Speaker 1: leaders hailed the court's order as a crucial protective barrier
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  Speaker 1: for local election workers who have faced mounting federal legal
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  Speaker 1: threats over ballot processing protocols. While the Department of Justice
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  Speaker 1: has signaled its intent to appeal the ruling to the U.S.
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  Speaker 1: Supreme Court, federal courts across multiple jurisdictions have consistently rejected
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  Speaker 1: pre-election attempts to alter ballot handling. The legal victory reinforces
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  Speaker 1: California's operational autonomy as tabulation centers prepare to process millions
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  Speaker 1: of ballots on Election Day.