Trump administration sues California over noncitizens on voter rolls

The administration of United States President Donald Trump has sued the state of California after the state missed a deadline to review a list of registered noncitizen voters sent to officials.In the lawsuit, filed on Thursday in a US District Court in California, Department of Justice (DOJ) officials asked the court to prevent the state from counting mail-in ballots from voters on a list shared with the state that it said contained 20,000 noncitizens. The agency said it had attempted to “work collaboratively” with California to identify noncitizens registered to vote in the state, but “California made no serious effort to do so”.Recommended Stories list of 3 itemslist 1 of 3Trump touts achievements, attacks immigrants in White House addresslist 2 of 3Miami judge rules federal noncitizen voting law violates US Constitutionlist 3 of 3What’s behind the vote-by-mail controversy in the US?end of listThe move follows a 48-hour deadline the DOJ gave California in letters sent to officials in several counties in the state on Tuesday, threatening further action if they did not review lists of allegedly ineligible voters the agency said it had shared.California Secretary of State Shirley We...