Voters waiting to cast their ballots at Beverly Hills City Hall in November 2024. The Trump administration has been engaged in a far-reaching effort to find, arrest and publicize instances of voter fraud.
The lawsuit seeks to temporarily block the state from counting mail ballots of voters it claims are likely noncitizens, opening a new front in the administration’s legal fights with election officials.
A lawsuit from the Trump administration is seeking a court order to force California to not count — at least in the short term — any mail ballots received from some 20,000 people in the state the administration claims are “likely noncitizens.”
The lawsuit also suggests that a motivating factor for the dismissals was the intense scrutiny of the F.B.I. director, Kash Patel, after he went to the Olympics in Milan.
After years of investigation, the Justice Department appears to be intensifying a criminal inquiry into the immigration history of Ilhan Omar, a Minnesota Democrat, and her family.
The search takes place within the 60-day window of the midterm elections, when the Justice Department has historically avoided such investigative steps related to political candidates.
The hack left the nation’s premier law enforcement agency racing to respond as both the victim and the investigator of a murky group that threatened to expose agents’ personal information.
The hack last month scooped up home addresses, Social Security numbers, sensitive job assignments and more, according to a New York Times analysis of some of the records.
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