{"id":503915,"date":"2026-10-22T07:22:08","date_gmt":"2026-10-22T07:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/503915\/"},"modified":"2026-10-22T07:22:08","modified_gmt":"2026-10-22T07:22:08","slug":"california-asks-court-to-dismiss-doj-lawsuit-over-mail-in-ballots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/503915\/","title":{"rendered":"California asks court to dismiss DOJ lawsuit over mail-in ballots"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">California is asking a federal court to dismiss the Department of Justice lawsuit alleging that over 20,000 noncitizens received mail-in ballots for the November election.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">In new court filings Wednesday, the state argues the Trump administration is asking officials to ignore the law and dismiss the lawsuit. California is also asking for the court to expedite the case.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Justice Department <a data-ylk=\"slk:sued California officials last week;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/www.abc10.com\/article\/news\/politics\/elections\/california-sued-by-trump-administration-over-allegations-involving-20000-mail-ballots\/103-47a25d81-359c-4a5c-a04e-0b59df46ee7a\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">sued California officials last week<\/a> after the state declined to set aside the ballots until the recipients&#8217; citizenship status could be verified.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">A hearing on the state&#8217;s request is scheduled for Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Watch more from ABC10: <a data-ylk=\"slk:California rejects DOJ demand to set aside disputed ballots as voting continues;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas;\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;link&quot;,&quot;yLinkElementType&quot;:&quot;article_link&quot;}\" href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/qhf44vNDoNY\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\">California rejects DOJ demand to set aside disputed ballots as voting continues<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"California is asking a federal court to dismiss the Department of Justice lawsuit alleging that over 20,000 noncitizens&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":503916,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8],"class_list":["post-503915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=503915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/503915\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/503916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=503915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=503915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=503915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}