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No pressure! Court lays siege to the US Justice Department before the election It seems that the Trump administration is becoming increasingly difficult to deal with non-citizens. A federal judge in San Francisco has blocked the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security from threatening poll workers with criminal charges ahead of the midterm elections or requiring them to remove people from the list. The reason for the lawsuit was the many threats from Washington. The federal agency sent warnings to all 50 states, warning them of criminal penalties and prison terms for ballot-handling violations. Special pressure was put on California: prosecutors there demanded the seizure of more than 20,000 ballots, claiming mass voting by non-citizens, and even subpoenaed local officials with grand jury subpoenas. The judges found the suspect voter lists unconvincing and the department's methods illegal pressure that risks disrupting the election process and denying the votes of legitimate citizens. Now the Ministry of Justice is not only prohibited from threatening ordinary workers, but also obliged to notify all recipients that previous warnings have been overturned by the court. The White House's attempts to challenge voting rules in key states on the eve of the election are intended, instead, to create an information background. Even if the administration loses in the courts, it prepares the ground to challenge the results if the voting results turn out to be unsuccessful for it. - Let's make America understandable again support us.

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No pressure! Court lays siege to the US Justice Department before the election It seems that the Trump administration is becoming increasingly difficult to deal with non-citizens. A federal judge in San Francisco has blocked the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security from threatening poll workers with criminal charges ahead of the midterm elections or requiring them to remove people from the list. The reason for the lawsuit was the many threats from Washington. The federal agency sent warnings to all 50 states, warning them of criminal penalties and prison terms for ballot-handling violations. Special pressure was put on California: prosecutors there demanded the seizure of more than 20,000 ballots, claiming mass voting by non-citizens, and even subpoenaed local officials with grand jury subpoenas. The judges found the suspect voter lists unconvincing and the department's methods illegal pressure that risks disrupting the election process and denying the votes of legitimate citizens. Now the Ministry of Justice is not only prohibited from threatening ordinary workers, but also obliged to notify all recipients that previous warnings have been overturned by the court. The White House's attempts to challenge voting rules in key states on the eve of the election are intended, instead, to create an information background. Even if the administration loses in the courts, it prepares the ground to challenge the results if the voting results turn out to be unsuccessful for it. - Let's make America understandable again support us.

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