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Judge bars DOJ threats over California ballot counting, CBS LA reports

Tom Wait explains a temporary restraining order after election worker unions challenged federal demands backed by threats of prosecution.

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Judge orders Trump administration to stop threatening local election workers with prosecution

Los Angeles County election workers had received grand jury subpoenas. The legal response has now produced a temporary restraining order limiting how the Department of Justice can press officials to change ballot-counting procedures, CBS LA reports.

In Tom Wait's report, the order bars the Trump administration from threatening state and local election officials with criminal prosecution to force them to separate ballots or exclude votes from alleged noncitizens. The judge found that the intimidation plan likely violated the U.S. Constitution.

As we reported here, the federal demands included officials' testimony and internal communications. This report moves the story into the courtroom: election worker unions sued the DOJ, and the judge's order temporarily blocks the prosecution threats. Wait says it expires on November 16.

There is also a question of who can see the allegations. Wait reports that the UCLA Voting Rights Project secured access to the DOJ's list of alleged noncitizen voters under strict confidentiality. He notes that the people named on it do not know they are listed. Inclusion on that list is an allegation, not a finding of ineligible voting.

The report drew nearly half a million views in its first day, far beyond the channel's usual audience for uploads of this length. Wait closes by noting that CBS had sought comment from the DOJ.

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