A federal appeals court reversed itself on Election Day, handing the Trump administration a green light to pressure the workers counting ballots. On Tuesday, a majority of an 11-judge en banc panel of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals reinstated a three-judge panel order that halted a temporary restraining order…

A campaign by the Trump Justice Department to put the screws to election officials over contested ballots was blocked in two different courts on the eve of Election Day. The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals’ active judges, by a majority, discarded a ruling that had left the DOJ at liberty to threaten local authorities…

President Donald Trump’s Justice Department faced a wave of ridicule Monday after the Supreme Court rejected its last-minute attempt to force California to set aside thousands of mail-in ballots on the eve of the midterm elections. The administration had sought to segregate roughly 20,000 ballots from voters it…