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BREAKING: The Trump DOJ just sent letters to local election officials across California — every county in the state — demanding they identify potential noncitizens on their voter rolls and set aside their ballots. Local officials would "risk significant federal scrutiny" if they failed to comply.

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The Cali AG should indict the acting US attorney for violating California Elections Code §18581, which makes it illegal to intimidate, threaten, or coerce any person who is exercising powers or duties to administer elections. 58 counts, one for each county. Up to three years in state prison on each.

"... There are two types of laws: There are just laws and there are unjust laws. I would be the first to advocate obeying just laws. One has not only a legal but a moral responsibility to obey just laws. Conversely, one has a moral responsibility to disobey unjust laws." - Martin Luther King Jr.

Dear California, just ignore them. That’s their strategy, right? Ignoring court orders, actual laws, bulldozing our rights every which way? Give them a taste of their own medicine.

That’s generating a lot of advertising of his claim that noncitizens vote & will be used when he claims the results are wrong. It’s a well thought out scheme.

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Does this violate the court order from the other day ordering him to stop until after the election? Or were these mailed before? Or perhaps I’ve misunderstood the order?

They want to tell their base - "California doesn't want to cooperate, which means they are cheating", and they know their base is too vapid and tribal to make the connection: "California doesn't want to cooperate because states control elections, not the feds".

This is going to get really loud over then next few days. This stuff will fail in the courts. Remember the 2020 election, Trump filed 62 lawsuits to contest the results and failed all but one of them. Even Republican judges said, "kick rocks rapey mcfellon..."

"...risk significant federal scrutiny" How? Is Trump planning on re-hiring a reconstituted DOGE to run amok with a chainsaw through any States he loses? Or will he deputize Herr Stephan Miller to do that job?

Worth noting that when the Trump administration tried getting other states to purge their rolls of suspected non-citizens and those states actually checked, nearly all of the names were found to have been incorrectly flagged and were, in fact, eligible to vote.

There are some counties in CA that are so racist and red (think former sundown towns and confederate names) that they want the state to be another MS or OK. If there isn’t a state law preventing compliance then there needs to be, and soon, because those counties will be all too eager to comply

Legit American citizens barely show up to vote. People are damn crazy to believe non citizens are lining up to vote for some Joe Schmo who’s spending a fortune to be on a ballot. Non citizens care even less than all the actual citizens that just sit home and don’t vote at all.

Nothing says "efficiency" like a federal government spending millions to ask local officials to do the one thing they already do. It’s less of a legal directive and more of a very expensive way to send a "checking in" email.

If only Trump worried about the American people as much as he worries about saving his own sorry ass ! Hey trump…. People of California will vote Blue so screw you ! 💙💙

The list is going to turn out to be fifty percent "Juan Ortega," because they know about a guy by that name who lives in Acapulco.

How exactly do they judge compliance? lol election officials already reject registrations for not complying with the law so what are they supposed to do here? They also do not answer to the feds

The answer is ‘NONE.’ By constitution and state law, non-citizens cannot be on the voter list. The CA election officials in return should demand a list and proof from DoJ and threaten them with a lawsuit for withholding evidence of illegality.

Read the threat at the end. That is the whole letter. The noncitizen hunt is the cover story, the message to county officials is comply or we come for you. Intimidation with a DOJ letterhead is still intimidation.

Federal gov [or White House] has no legal jurisdiction over anything to do with Elections which are run, regulated, counted & controlled solely by the States.

One possible goal: to invalidate the entire CA House delegation (which might be 47-5 or 48-4) and then make it a majority Repub. Should they succeed (unlikely) Dems should refuse to be sworn in so there is no quorum and thus unable to function.

It’s all a setup. After the election they’ll claim fraud. DOJ will sue states. Congress won’t seat until all cases are heard. GOP will call it election integrity. Then endless delays/appeals to drag it out in courts while mass protests get labeled insurrection and finally the goal, military control

They’re laying phony groundwork for refusing to seat Dem midterm winners. Trump will say “we tried to get rid of the fake voters before the election and they wouldn’t do it, so now we have to protect the people from results of a criminal rigged election” Repubs will fall into line like always

Cool. So once again trump is flagrantly violating the constitution. Treason again, and the Republicans are sucking him off like he did with Bubba, and the Dems may snivel about but won't do anything beyond a strongly worded letter.

I'm sure the hundreds of lawsuits have already been written by Grok and will just need serving to every States' Attorneys General where Republicans have losses. So, yes, Cohn taught him well!

I think the State of California could divert any govt funding obligations to cover the legal costs of poll workers. Besides, the counter suits could make them thousands if not more

Blanche says "we don't want to interfere in elections" while actually doing the exact opposite. Totally corrupt DoJ under Blanche. He makes John Mitchell look like a Saint.

Everyone is a potential non-citizen. Knowledge is never perfect. So then the question (if we're to take the edict seriously) is HOW? By what means do we distinguish? What institutions do we question? Regardless, it is illegal to reject votes based on suspicion and it's OUR election to administer.

All states have processes in place to prevent undocumented or dead people or fraudsters from voting...why does the DOJ have to stick their nose in... They aren't looking for voter fraud anyway they are looking for brown people to traffic. Not to mention they did this two weeks before election day

It is going to get worse. Ever corner a rat? They get nasty when you corner them. This one has gotten away with everything so far and considers himself king.

Let me guess..they're gonna call in the military if they don't comply...or better yet..let Iran bomb a few California cities if they don't comply..or..hes gonna divert all the water to Utah and Nevada if they don't comply..

Election Intimidation..well hell..these guys are out just shooting up the town..there is no respect for the Rule of Law..It's all underhanded skullduggery..fuck'em! if ya have to resort to that bullshit, better have some good lawyers...they don't win in court..They are just loud mouth assholes.

Aw, the wee little chicken shits sent stuff to all the counties when they were only suing LA before and the courts are treating their jibber-jabber like the flim-flam that it is. Signed, sealed, delivered, accepted., and ready to be counted.

Isn't it kinda working both ways now? The Administration decides which laws to follow or enforce from the Legislature and the Judiciary but the States are deciding which orders from the Executive to follow--or not.

I sincerely hope that everyone single one of these state attorneys general writes back with either “go fuck yourselves,” or some form of “we think you should know some asshole is sending out stupid bullshit demand letters with your name on them.”

Trump stay out of our elections. You’re too stupid to understand elections are state controlled. Baboons like you have no say in our elections. Stop threatening us!

BREAKING: noncitizens shouldn't be on voter rolls in the first place. Wild that cleaning them up is the scandal now.

Well, that is what Putin, I mean Trump, wants. The US is no different than Russia at this point. Do Trump and Musk ever work or do anything other than fool with elections?

“______County will administer the election in accordance with applicable California law to ensure that ballots properly submitted by legally eligible & registered voters will be accurately counted.”

Non citizens can’t vote in elections and the doj and trump know that. Its bullshit. I am related to a person working at a Vote center in CA. They are required to do a live scan and fbi background check before being hired. They are fully vetted. It’s more than safe.