Trump admin's masked-agent voter sweep blocked as full appeals court snubs last-ditch push

The Trump administration’s pre-election push to send Homeland Security agents after alleged illegal voters will stay frozen through Tuesday’s midterms. The full 9th Circuit Court of Appeals declined to reconsider a ruling that keeps the operation blocked. The court issued its order late Friday. A judge on the court had asked on their own for a vote on whether to rehear the case “en banc,” before a larger panel of judges. Not enough judges voted to do so, which leaves in place a three-judge panel’s decision refusing to lift a lower court’s injunction against DHS’s so-called Unlawful Voter Initi
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