( 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....