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Trump’s Supreme Court winning streak in election cases screeches to a halt

Justices acted with remarkable speed to shut down his attempt to intervene in California's ballot count on the eve of Tuesday's midterm elections.

Trump’s Supreme Court winning streak in election cases screeches to a halt

On the eve of the midterm elections, the U.S. Supreme Court swiftly rejected President Donald Trump's effort to interfere in California's mail-in ballot tally. Within just six hours and 24 minutes, the justices disbanded the administration's request to halt California from counting ballots from over 20,000 voters suspected of being non-U.S. citizens. The court provided no justification for their decision and there were no recorded disagreements among the justices.

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