The Trump administration pursues aggressive legal action to invalidate mail ballots and remove voters it claims are noncitizens, while courts repeatedly reject the effort and analysts find significant errors in the government's voter lists.
15 stories · since Oct 13
Hours before Election Day, the justices unanimously denied a DOJ emergency request to set aside mail ballots the administration called likely noncitizen votes.
A federal court panel denied the Justice Department's emergency request to block California from counting mail votes from alleged noncitizens ahead of midterm elections.
Federal prosecutors escalate a fight with California over the midterms, ordering at least 18 counties to flag and verify ballots from suspected noncitizen voters.
DOJ arrested 11 people and charged 28 green card holders with illegal voting as it threatens California officials with criminal exposure over a 20,000-name noncitizen list.