Appeals Court Declines to Intervene in California Ballot Lawsuit

"A federal appeals court on Monday rejected a request from the Trump administration that it intervene in a lawsuit against California and declined to immediately order the state to set aside as many as 20,000 mail-in ballots that the administration claimed had been provided to noncitizens.

By a 2-1 vote, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit found that it was too early for the appeals court to take up the case because a lower court judge had not yet considered it, refusing the Trump administration’s effort to rush the case by leapfrogging a district court judge.
 
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