A federal appeals court on Nov. 2 ordered an en banc rehearing of the lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s efforts to have state and local election officials segregate ballots from registered voters suspected of being noncitizens.
A three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals earlier ruled 2–1, granting the DOJ’s motion to stay a restraining order issued by U.S. Judge Trina Thompson on Oct. 30, allowing the administration to require state and local election officials to set aside ballots from individuals it deemed ineligible.
The Ninth Circuit vacated that ruling hours later and ordered a full rehearing. It did not specify a date for the rehearing….