2026年11月10日 美国东部时间下午2:40 / CBS新闻
华盛顿讯——一名联邦法官周二谴责了司法部提起的诉讼，该诉讼试图强制加州搁置约2万名涉嫌非公民人士的邮寄选票，此举是为了“破坏正在进行的选举并制造混乱与不确定性”。
美国地区法官戴维·卡特的这份单页命令，是针对特朗普政府在中期选举前几周采取的行动作出的回应——该行动是特朗普政府撤回了针对加州官员、洛杉矶县登记员兼县书记员迪恩·洛根提起的诉讼。
“这场诉讼试图破坏正在进行的选举，并给选民和选举工作人员都制造混乱与不确定性，”卡特写道，“选举权是神圣的，对我们民主的信任同样神圣。”
司法部提起诉讼的理由是，据称有超过2万人并非美国公民，但却在加州登记投票。司法部试图获得法院命令，迫使选举工作人员将这些被其认定为涉嫌非公民人士退回的邮寄选票分开处理。
这起诉讼于10月中旬提起，当时加州的投票已经开始，且已有数十万张邮寄选票被退回至选举办公室。
卡特由前总统比尔·克林顿任命，他驳回了特朗普政府要求选举工作人员搁置这些选票、在核实选民公民身份之前暂不计数的主张。在未能在11月3日中期选举前从美国第九巡回上诉法院和最高法院获得类似救济后，司法部于周六通知卡特，将撤回此案。
“鉴于最高法院已驳回申请，美国正在评估如何最好地保护美国选票，包括防止非公民稀释选票，”一名司法部律师在一份文件中写道。
特朗普政府表示，到定于周五举行的案件下次听证会时，“加州将已将受质疑的选票与合法选票混在一起，届时无法再将受质疑的选票分开。因此，美国所寻求和需要的救济已无法获得，撤回此案实属必要”。
卡特在其简短命令中正式结案，并取消了周五的听证会。
Judge denounces DOJ lawsuit over California mail ballots as effort to “disrupt an ongoing election and create confusion”
November 10, 2026 / 2:40 PM EST / CBS News
Washington — A federal judge on Tuesday condemned a Justice Department lawsuit seeking to force California to set aside mail ballots from up to 20,000 alleged noncitizens as an attempt to “disrupt an ongoing election and create confusion and uncertainty.”
The one-paragraph order from U.S. District Judge David Carter came in response to the Trump administration’s move to voluntarily dismiss the suit it filed against California officials and Dean Logan, the Los Angeles County registrar-recorder and county clerk, just weeks before the midterm elections.
“This lawsuit attempted to disrupt an ongoing election and create confusion and uncertainty for voters and election workers alike,” Carter wrote. “The right to vote is sacred. So, too, is trust in our democracy.”
The Justice Department filed its lawsuit after alleging that there were more than 20,000 people who it believed were not U.S. citizens but were registered to vote in California. It sought a court order forcing election workers to separate mail ballots returned by those it had identified as suspected noncitizens.
The lawsuit was filed in mid-October, after voting in California had begun and after hundreds of thousands of mail ballots had already been returned to election offices.
Carter, appointed by former President Bill Clinton, rejected the Trump administration’s effort to require election workers to put aside those ballots and not count them until voters’ citizenship could be verified. After failing to secure similar relief from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit and the Supreme Court before the Nov. 3 midterm elections, the Justice Department notified Carter on Saturday that it would be dismissing the case.
“In light of the Supreme Court’s denial, the United States is evaluating how to best ensure that American votes are protected, including by preventing vote dilution by noncitizens,” a Justice Department lawyer wrote in a filing.
The Trump administration said that by the time of the court’s next hearing in the case, set for Friday, “California will have already commingled the challenged ballots with lawful ones. There is then no way to get the challenged ballots segregated. As a result, the relief the United States sought and needed is no longer available—rendering voluntary dismissal necessary.”
In his brief order, Carter officially closed the case and canceled Friday’s hearing.
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