DOJ asks Supreme Court to set aside California ballots

What each leads with

CNN ↗ — Headline labels it 'Trump’s California ballot appeal' and lede calls the request a 'longshot' already rejected by lower courts, stressing 'uncertain record,' 'fast timeline,' and 'material risk' of disenfranchisement.

Washington Times ↗ — Headline calls the filing a 'last-ditch bid to block noncitizen ballots'; summary describes it as a 'Hail Mary petition' to stop counting 20,000 ballots mailed to people the feds say may be ineligible.


Trump’s California ballot appeal puts Supreme Court in center of fight over allegations of noncitizen voting

Left: CNN

President Donald Trump on Monday urged the Supreme Court to force California to set aside potentially thousands of ballots the Justice Department claims may have been cast by noncitizens, a longshot request that multiple lower courts have rejected.

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Trump takes California case to Supreme Court in last-ditch bid to block noncitizen ballots

Right: Washington Times

The Trump Justice Department filed a Hail Mary petition with the Supreme Court on Monday that asked the justices to block California from counting 20,000 ballots the feds say were mailed to people who might be noncitizens ineligible to vote.

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