The Trump Justice Department just gave California 48 hours to pull noncitizens off its voter rolls — or face federal court. Acting Deputy Attorney General R. Trent McCotter sent letters Tuesday to Secretary of State Shirley Weber and Los Angeles County Registrar-Recorder Dean Logan, demanding they review a list of suspected noncitizens who were already sent mail-in ballots and segregate those ballots until citizenship is confirmed.
The stakes are direct: federal law prohibits noncitizens from voting in federal elections. California mailed ballots to all registered voters on October 5. If noncitizens are on those rolls, they already have ballots in hand.
According to the New York Post, the DOJ delivered a password-protected thumb drive to Logan's office containing names the federal government
