The decisions followed an earlier intervention by the US Supreme Court, which swiftly rejected the administration's request to step into a Justice Department lawsuit seeking to prevent California from counting mail-in ballots from more than 20,000 people whom the government suspects may not be US citizens.

Nov 3 - In the hours before polls opened for the US midterm elections on Tuesday, federal judges issued a series of rulings restricting the Trump administration's unprecedented efforts to pressure state election officials over alleged noncitizen voting. Read more at straitstimes.com.