Trump’s DOJ ends California suit over suspected noncitizen voters after midterm losses

The U.S. Department of Justice is dismissing a lawsuit that tried to force California to set aside the ballots of suspected noncitizen voters, marking the formal end of the Trump administration’s most aggressive effort to control vote counting in the lead-up to the midterm elections. The Justice Department filed a notice in court Friday night that it was abandoning the lawsuit. The decision ended what had been a dramatic weeks-long battle between the federal government and state and local election officials over control of California’s elections. The filing came less than a week after the U.S. Supreme Court, hours before Election Day, ruled against an emergency request by the Justice Department — and after Republicans suffered crushing electoral losses nationwide. President Donald Trump will enter the final two years of his term facing a Congress controlled by Democrats.

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