Supreme Court Rejects Trump Bid to Alter California Ballot Count in 7 Hours
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Updated · The New York Times · Nov 5
Supreme Court Rejects Trump Bid to Alter California Ballot Count in 7 Hours
3 articles · Updated · The New York Times · Nov 5
Summary
A one-sentence Supreme Court order on Monday denied the Trump administration’s emergency request to intervene in how California ballots were being counted, arriving about seven hours after the filing on the eve of the midterms.
The justices rejected the bid without even requesting a response from the other side, an unusually swift dismissal for a Justice Department emergency application, and no justice noted a dissent.
That handling signaled a sharper rebuke than the court’s response to Texas’s 2020 election lawsuit, which took four days, drew more than a dozen amicus briefs and included a short explanation plus a statement from Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas.
The latest order reinforced the court’s refusal to let Trump or allied states dictate how other states run and count their elections.