U.S. District Judge who denied the Justice Department's request
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The order, issued late Friday, blocks federal officials from forcing local election offices to set aside or stop processing ballots the government calls disputed, three days before the midterm election.
Chief Judge James Boasberg ordered the Justice Department to give immigration advocates its list of about 20,000 suspected noncitizen voters, four days before the midterm election. A second federal judge this week refused to let the government stop counting those voters' mail ballots.
Federal prosecutors are demanding records from Los Angeles County about its voter rolls and its contacts with Homeland Security, escalating a fight with California over an unproven claim of 20,000 noncitizen voters.
Federal prosecutors are subpoenaing election officials in Los Angeles and Orange counties five days before the midterm election, after a judge refused to set aside up to 20,000 mail ballots the government says may come from noncitizens.
