The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a ruling late Monday that briefly allowed the Trump administration to resume demands that election officials segregate ballots from suspected noncitizens under warnings of criminal prosecution, setting up another legal battle as voters headed to the polls on Tuesday. A majority of the active judges voted to […]
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals vacated a ruling late Monday that briefly allowed the Trump administration to resume demands that election officials segregate ballots from suspected noncitizens under warnings of criminal prosecution, setting up another legal battle as voters headed to the polls on Tuesday.
A majority of the active judges voted to rehear the dispute in front of a larger body of judges, otherwise known as en banc, undoing a divided three-judge panel’s decision issued hours earlier. The move restored restrictions imposed by U.S. District Judge Trina Thompson while the appeals court reconsiders the case.
