Supreme Court rejects Trump administration's last-ditch effort on California ballots

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[0:00] The Supreme Court now shutting down a

[0:02] lastditch effort by the Trump

[0:03] administration to force California to

[0:06] set aside thousands of ballots from

[0:08] alleged non-citizens. You may remember

[0:10] last month the DOJ sent a letter to

[0:12] state election officials that included a

[0:14] list of 20,000 registered voters. It

[0:17] claimed those folks are not US citizens

[0:19] but still received a mail-in ballot.

[0:21] California contested and a federal judge

[0:24] sided with the state. Yesterday, the

[0:26] Supreme Court rejected the Trump

[0:28] administration's appeal. With election

[0:30] day here, the DOJ announced this morning

[0:32] that election monitors will be in all 50

[0:35] states for the first time in US history.

[0:37] So, what does this mean? Well, we've got

[0:39] CBS News election law expert David

[0:41] Becker with

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