Ninth Circuit questions Trump DOJ's emergency request to set aside 20,000 California mail ballots
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4 outlets (Fox News, PBS NewsHour, ABC News and CBS News) are covering this story.
How outlets are covering this: 4 outlets ran their own headlines on this story. Words most headlines share: “DOJ's”, “ballots”, “California”, “noncitizen'”. Distinct wording: Fox News uses “questions” and “emergency”; CBS News uses “counties” and “demands”. (Computed from the headlines below.)
- Fox News reports: “A Ninth Circuit panel grilled Justice Department lawyers over forcing California to set aside mail-in ballots tied to suspected noncitizens.”
- PBS NewsHour reports: “The administration has insisted that immigrants voting is a major problem nationwide, when in fact it is quite rare, as even its own investigations have shown.”
- ABC News reports: “Local election officials in California are frustrated after receiving a letter from the U.S. Department of Justice”
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- Fox News: Ninth Circuit questions Trump DOJ's emergency request to set aside 20,000 California mail ballots
- PBS NewsHour: California election officials frustrated, rattled by DOJ demand to sequester 'noncitizen' ballots
- ABC News: California election officials frustrated, rattled by DOJ demand to sequester 'noncitizen' ballots
- CBS News: DOJ demands that some California counties set aside alleged noncitizen ballots
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