Supreme Court Rejects Trump Administration Request to Intervene in California Ballot Case

The court’s ruling came just hours after administration lawyers asked the justices to immediately order California to set aside 20,000 mail-in ballots.Voters dropping their ballots off in San Francisco last month. The Trump administration’s legal challenge to 20,000 California ballots is part of a broader effort to argue that the elections could be marred by illegal votes by noncitizens.