California Judge Rejects DOJ Request to Review Mail Ballots
A federal judge in California has refused to allow the Trump administration's Justice Department to intervene in the state's mail-in ballot counting process. The judge warned that the administration's request to segregate and vet up to 20,000 mail ballots to…
Monterey Salinas, CA, October 28, 2026 —
A federal judge in California has refused to allow the Trump administration’s Justice Department to intervene in the state’s mail-in ballot counting process. The administration had requested that up to 20,000 mail ballots be separated and reviewed to check voters’ citizenship, according to the information provided.
The judge warned that carrying out the request during the ongoing election would disrupt the ballot-counting process and violate voting rights. The ruling leaves the state’s mail-in ballot counting process without the intervention sought by the Justice Department, based on the details available.
The judge’s name, the date of the decision and the specific court were not provided. The information also does not describe the legal arguments made by either side, identify the election involved, or explain how the proposed review would have been conducted. No further details were provided about the ballots or the process for determining voter citizenship.
The issue at the center of the dispute is whether ballots should be segregated and vetted while election counting is underway. The judge’s stated concern, as described, was that the requested review could interfere with that ongoing process and infringe voting rights. The account does not provide additional reasoning from the judge or indicate whether the administration may pursue other steps.
Further details about the decision and any subsequent action were not included in the information provided. Accordingly, the available account establishes the request’s stated purpose, its scale of up to 20,000 ballots and the judge’s warning, but does not specify the full procedural history or the precise terms of the ruling.
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