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更新于2026年10月26日 美国东部时间下午6:48
发布于2026年10月26日 美国东部时间下午6:30
10月21日，旧金山旧金山市政厅所属的旧金山县选举运营中心，一名选举工作人员在中期选举提前投票期间整理选票。
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一家联邦上诉法院于周一驳回了特朗普政府前所未有的诉求——要求加利福尼亚州搁置约2万名选民的选票，美国政府声称这些选民为非公民。
司法部本月早些时候在加利福尼亚州提起的诉讼，是联邦政府越来越多地介入各州选举运营方式的举措之一。
美国第九巡回上诉法院的一个由三名法官组成的合议庭，在周日一场通过Zoom举行的特殊紧急听证会后，驳回了司法部的紧急上诉。
特朗普任命的法官马克·贝内特，以及拜登任命的法官加布里埃尔·桑切斯裁定，在地区法院处理该事项之前，上诉法院无权对司法部的诉讼作出裁决。
“美国所谓的紧急情况，至少部分是自行制造的，”多数法官写道，“此处的至少部分延误，归因于美国自身提起诉讼的延误、意识到加利福尼亚州现行州法律管选票的发放与处理的延误、认识到加利福尼亚州有数百万登记选民并按相应规模的时间表处理选票的延误，以及向法院表明其希望获得何种救济的延误。”
合议庭的第三名法官、特朗普任命的帕特里克·布马塔伊法官持不同意见。
这一裁决将案件发回加利福尼亚州联邦地区法院，定于美国东部时间周二下午4点举行听证会。
司法部本月早些时候提起诉讼，试图阻止加利福尼亚州官员计超2万张邮寄选票，这些选票与美国政府称其可能为非公民的选民有关。在地区法院法官上周未在周二听证会前作出裁决后，司法部向第九巡回上诉法院提起了上诉。
这是一则正在发展的报道，将持续更新。
Appeals court rejects Trump DOJ demand to set aside 20,000 California mail ballots
By Jeremy Herb, Tierney Sneed
Updated Oct 26, 2026, 6:48 PM ET
PUBLISHED Oct 26, 2026, 6:30 PM ET
An election worker sorts ballots during early voting ahead of the midterm election at San Francisco County’s election operations facility at City Hall in San Francisco, on October 21.
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A federal appeals court on Monday rejected the Trump administration’s unprecedented attempt to force California to set aside votes from 20,000 people it claims are noncitizens.
The Justice Department’s lawsuit in California, filed earlier this month, is part of its escalating effort to insert the federal government into how states run their elections.
A three-judge panel on the 9th US Circuit Court of Appeals denied the Justice Department’s emergency appeal following arguments in an unusual emergency Sunday hearing held via Zoom.
Judge Mark Bennett, a Trump appointee, and Judge Gabrial Sanchez, a Biden appointee, ruled that the appeals court did not have the authority to rule on the DOJ lawsuit before the district court had addressed the matter.
“The United States’s claimed emergency, at least in part, is a self-constructed one,” the majority wrote. “At least part of the delay here is attributable to the United States’s own delay in filing suit, in realizing that existing California state law governs the issuance and processing of ballots, in recognizing that California has millions of registered voters and processes ballots on a schedule aligned with that scale, and in communicating to the court its desired relief.”
A third judge on the panel, Trump appointee Judge Patrick Bumatay, dissented.
The decision sends the case back to the US District Court in California, where a Tuesday hearing is scheduled at 4 p.m. ET.
The Justice Department filed a lawsuit earlier this month seeking to prevent officials in California from counting more than 20,000 mail-in ballots associated with people the federal government says it believes are likely noncitizens. DOJ appealed to the 9th Circuit after the district court judge did not issue a ruling last week ahead of Tuesday’s hearing.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
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