( November 3, 2026, 12:36 PM EST) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Supreme Court on Nov. 2 denied the federal government’s emergency application to require California to segregate mail-in ballots from more than 20,000 registered voters identified as suspected noncitizens pending verification of their citizenship, leaving in place a Ninth Circuit ruling that federal law prohibiting noncitizen voting does not preempt California’s election procedures and that the government failed to establish irreparable harm (United States v. California, et al., No. 26A624, U.S. Sup.)....