{"id":80519,"date":"2026-10-26T18:54:55","date_gmt":"2026-10-26T23:54:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/court-blocks-bid-by-trump-doj-to-stop-california-from-counting-mail-in-ballots\/"},"modified":"2026-10-26T18:54:55","modified_gmt":"2026-10-26T23:54:55","slug":"court-blocks-bid-by-trump-doj-to-stop-california-from-counting-mail-in-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/court-blocks-bid-by-trump-doj-to-stop-california-from-counting-mail-in-ballots\/","title":{"rendered":"Court blocks bid by Trump DoJ to stop California from counting mail-in ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>California counties were told by DoJ to set aside and verify ballots administration claims belong to noncitizen voters<\/p>\n<p>A \u2060US appeals court on Monday ruled against Donald \u2060Trump\u2019s \u200bjustice department in a major voting dispute ahead \u2060of the midterm elections, denying a \u2060request to block California from \u200bcounting \u200cmail ballots \u200cfrom people on a list \u200cof more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/15\/justice-department-sues-california-midterms\">20,000 registered voters<\/a> the federal government alleges are likely noncitizens.<\/p>\n<p>The decision by \u200cthe San Francisco-based ninth US circuit court of appeals marked the latest setback in Trump\u2019s efforts to assert \u2060a greater federal role in \u200boverseeing \u200belections in \u200bthe run-up to the 3 \u200bNovember midterms \u200bin \u200bwhich his fellow Republicans are fighting to retain control of Congress.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2026\/oct\/26\/court-california-ballots\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>California counties were told by DoJ to set aside and verify ballots administration claims belong to noncitizen voters A \u2060US appeals court on Monday ruled against Donald \u2060Trump\u2019s \u200bjustice department in a major voting dispute ahead \u2060of the midterm elections, denying a \u2060request to block California from \u200bcounting \u200cmail ballots \u200cfrom people on a list &#8230; <a title=\"Court blocks bid by Trump DoJ to stop California from counting mail-in ballots\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/10\/26\/court-blocks-bid-by-trump-doj-to-stop-california-from-counting-mail-in-ballots\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Court blocks bid by Trump DoJ to stop California from counting mail-in ballots\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-80519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80519\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}