The Trump administration has dropped its lawsuit seeking to force California to set aside mail-in ballots cast by roughly 20,000 people whom federal authorities suspected were not U.S. citizens.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) filed its voluntary dismissal on Nov. 6, four days after the U.S. Supreme Court rejected its emergency appeal to prevent the disputed ballots from being counted until the voters’ citizenship could be verified.
In its dismissal filing, the DOJ said the requested relief would no longer be available because, by a scheduled Nov. 13 hearing, all the challenged ballots would have been processed and stripped of any identifying information….