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Judge orders DOJ to give plaintiffs list of 20,000 alleged noncitizen California voters

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Covered by 3 outlets, mostly left-leaning (67%).

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A federal judge ordered the Justice Department to give lawyers for the Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles (CHIRLA) and a California voter its list of about 20,000 alleged noncitizen voters in California by 5 p.m. Friday. The plaintiffs want to learn whether CHIRLA members or clients appear on the list. Raw Story reports that the judge barred them from sharing the list beyond their legal team. HuffPost reports that the Justice Department claims the names are noncitizens registered to vote, and that state election officials refused to remove them, arguing that past federal efforts to identify noncitizens contained errors. The order came at a hearing in the lawsuit, which challenges the administration’s efforts to identify alleged noncitizens on voter rolls and send lists to county officials.

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A federal judge ordered the Justice Department to give lawyers for CHIRLA and a California voter its list of about 20,000 alleged noncitizen voters by 5 p.m. Friday.
Reported byFar Left2Center1See the outletsHide the outlets
Far Left
Raw Story, HuffPost
Center
Newsweek
The Justice Department claims the 20,000 names are noncitizens registered to vote in California.
One outletHuffPost· Far Left
State election officials refused to remove the names, arguing that federal attempts to identify noncitizens have contained errors.
One outletHuffPost· Far Left
The plaintiffs want to learn whether CHIRLA members or clients appear on the list.
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Far Left
Raw Story
Center
Newsweek
The judge barred the plaintiffs from sharing the list beyond their legal team but allowed them to draw conclusions about whether members appear on it.
One outletRaw Story· Far Left
A lawyer for the plaintiffs said the list has a suppressive effect, and that some citizens say they will not vote.
One outletRaw Story· Far Left

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Every side reports that a judge ordered the Justice Department to give plaintiffs its list of 20,000 alleged noncitizen voters in California by Friday. The left frames it as a setback for the Trump administration and stresses voter fear; the center frames it as a new deadline.

the left
2 outlets
Headlines split between a plain report of the order and one that calls it a setback for the Trump administration; the Far Left outlets’ own text also calls the federal probe dubious.
Trump Loaded verb“suffers setback”The headline states in the outlet’s own voice that a court order is a loss for the administration, which is a judgement rather than a report of the order.More neutral: faces a court deadlineDisagree with this highlight? as judge puts admin on clock in California voter challenge
Raw StoryFar LeftAll left-leaning headlines
the center
1 outlet
Headline presents the order as a procedural court deadline in a legal fight and names the Trump DOJ, without calling the action a setback or the probe dubious.
Judge Gives Trump DOJ New Deadline in Fight Over 20,000 California Ballots
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suffers setbackdubious investigation
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suffers setbackMore neutral: faces a court deadline
The headline states in the outlet’s own voice that a court order is a loss for the administration, which is a judgement rather than a report of the order.
Trump suffers setback as judge puts admin on clock in California voter challenge
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dubious investigationMore neutral: investigation
The outlet’s own voice dismisses the federal probe as dubious without citing evidence in the excerpt.
…the Justice Department’s subpoenas of California election officials in a dubious investigation alleging that those officials are breaking the law by allowing noncitizens to…
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Trump administration setback
court deadline for the list
voter fear and suppression concerns
dubious federal investigation

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HuffPostFar Left
Judge Orders DOJ To Hand Over List Of Purported Non-Citizen Voters
The Justice Department must hand its list of 20,000 purported non-citizen voters to an immigrant rights group.
2 hr agoRead at HuffPost (opens in a new tab)
Raw StoryFar Left
Trump Loaded verb“suffers setback”The headline states in the outlet’s own voice that a court order is a loss for the administration, which is a judgement rather than a report of the order.More neutral: faces a court deadlineDisagree with this highlight? as judge puts admin on clock in California voter challenge
A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to give an immigration advocacy group its list of 20,000 alleged unlawful California voters by Friday evening. …
2 hr agoRead at Raw Story (opens in a new tab)

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court-ordered deadline
suspected noncitizen voters
plaintiffs’ access to the list
immigration advocacy groups

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state election officials’ refusal to remove the names
DOJ’s earlier demand to remove names within 48 hours

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NewsweekCenter
Judge Gives Trump DOJ New Deadline in Fight Over 20,000 California Ballots
A federal judge has ordered the Justice Department to turn over its list of suspected noncitizen voters by 5p.m. Friday.
2 hr agoRead at Newsweek (opens in a new tab)

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Judge orders DOJ to give plaintiffs list of 20,000 alleged noncitizen California voters

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Judge Orders DOJ To Hand Over List Of Purported Non-Citizen Voters

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Judge Gives Trump DOJ New Deadline in Fight Over 20,000 California Ballots

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