特朗普要求最高法院介入，以促使加州将约2万名涉嫌非公民的选票搁置一边
更新时间：2026年11月2日 美国东部时间上午11:58 / CBS新闻
华盛顿报道—— 特朗普政府于周一要求最高法院介入此事，此举旨在迫使加州选举工作人员搁置数千名据称非美国公民人士的邮寄选票。
美国司法部提出的紧急救济请求，是在一家联邦上诉法院周五拒绝命令加州官员将政府名单上列出的超过2万名涉嫌非公民人士所投选票单独隔离之后提出的。
截至周日，加州全州已退回超过600万张邮寄选票。加州自10月初以来已开启投票程序。该州登记选民超过2300万人。
向最高法院提出的紧急上诉，是在周二选举前夕快速推进的法律纠纷中发生的。到目前为止，特朗普政府未能说服下级法院要求将争议选票搁置一边。
但司法部副部长D·约翰·索尔在向最高法院提交的请求中表示，政府寻求的是一项“适度补救措施”，以确保非美国公民所投的任何选票都不会“贬低或稀释有效选票”。
“一旦加州将受质疑的选票与合法选票混在一起，就无法将受质疑的选票取回，”他在一份文件中写道，“因此，要保留地区法院在完整实质审理后向美国提供救济的能力，唯一办法就是现在将受质疑的选票隔离。”
这场争议源于美国司法部致函加州州务卿及洛杉矶县高级选举官员，附上一份据称2万名已登记投票但非美国公民的人员名单，并要求将这些人退回的所有选票搁置，不得计入，直至其公民身份得到核实。
但相关官员对该名单的准确性以及合格选民可能被剥夺选举权表示担忧。
美国司法部起诉加州，以及洛杉矶县登记员兼县书记员迪安·洛根，寻求法院命令将这些选票隔离。
但周三，美国地区法院法官戴维·卡特驳回了特朗普政府关于发布临时限制令的请求，该限制令旨在阻止选举工作人员对据称非公民的选票进行计数。
“宪法权利和我们的民主正处于危急关头。公共利益要求保护这些权利，”由比尔·克林顿总统任命的法官卡特表示，“符合加州选民登记法律要求的个人，绝不能仅因一项充满不确定性和错误的程序所产生的毫无根据的指控，就被剥夺核心权利。”
周五，美国第九巡回上诉法院的一个由三名法官组成的小组以2比1的投票结果，驳回了美国司法部要求在公民身份核实前将选票隔离且不予计票的请求。
Trump asks Supreme Court to intervene in bid to get California to set aside ballots from 20,000 alleged noncitizens
Updated on: November 2, 2026 / 11:58 AM EST / CBS News
Washington — The Trump administration on Monday asked the Supreme Court to intervene in its effort to force California election workers to set aside mail ballots from thousands of people it claims are not U.S. citizens.
The Justice Department’s request for emergency relief came after a federal appeals court on Friday declined to order California officials to segregate the ballots cast by more than 20,000 people included on a government list of suspected noncitizens.
More than 6 million mail ballots have been returned statewide as of Sunday, according to the California secretary of state’s office. Voting has been underway in California since early October. There are more than23 million registered voters in the state.
The emergency appeal to the high court came in the fast-moving legal battle unfolding in the run-up to Tuesday’s elections. The Trump administration so far has not been successful in convincing lower courts to require the ballots at issue to be put aside.
But in the request to the Supreme Court, Solicitor General D. John Sauer said the government is seeking a “modest remedy” that will ensure any ballots cast by people who are not American citizens do not “debase or dilute valid votes.”
“Once California commingles the challenged ballots with lawful ones, there is no way to get the challenged ballots back,” he wrote in a filing. “The only way to preserve the district court’s ability to grant relief to the United States after a full merits proceeding, therefore, is to segregate the challenged ballots now.”
The dispute arose after the Justice Department sent letters to California’s secretary of state and the top elections official in Los Angeles County with a list of 20,000 people it claimed were registered to vote but not U.S. citizens, and demanded any ballots returned by them be set aside and not tabulated until their citizenship could be verified.
But the officials have expressed concerns about the accuracy of the list and the potential for eligible voters to be disenfranchised.
The Justice Department sued California and Dean Logan, the Los Angeles County registrar-recorder and county clerk, and sought a court order requiring the ballots to be segregated.
But on Wednesday, U.S. District Judge David Carter rejected the Trump administration’s request for a temporary restraining order blocking election workers from counting ballots from the alleged noncitizens.
“Constitutional rights and our democracy are at stake. The public interest favors their protection,” Carter, appointed by President Bill Clinton, said. “Individuals who have met the requirements of California’s voter registration laws must not be deprived of a core right merely because of unfounded allegations stemming from a procedure rife with uncertainty and errors.”
A three-judge panel on the 9th Circuit divided 2-1 on Friday in denying a Justice Department request to require the ballots to be separated and not counted pending citizenship verification.
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