Supreme Court lets California count 20,000 disputed ballots
What's next: The ruling leaves lower-court orders in place on the eve of the midterms, ending the federal push to isolate the votes.
The Supreme Court rejected a last-minute Trump administration bid to force California to set aside about 20,000 ballots it claimed may have been issued to non-citizens. In a one-line order Monday, the justices denied the Justice Department's request for an injunction, leaving lower-court rulings intact just before the midterm elections. California officials had challenged the federal list as error-filled and warned that eligible voters could be disenfranchised. The dispute centered on mail ballots in the nation's most populous state, where officials said more than 6 million had already been received by Sunday night. A federal appeals court had turned down the same request Friday.