{"id":"613da6db-5a3c-43d7-bc8a-099c1ed6895c","url":"https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm5ynekkn5qko","domain":"bbc.co.uk","outlet":{"name":"BBC","country":"GB","cred":5,"lean":0,"curated":true,"owner":"British Broadcasting Corporation"},"title":"Supreme Court rejects Trump's request to stop California counting disputed votes","plainHeadline":"Supreme Court denies Trump request to halt California vote counting","rewrite":{"model":null,"at":null},"summary":["US Supreme Court rejected the Trump administration's request to intervene in California's vote count.","The goal was to set aside about 20,000 ballots believed to be issued to non-US citizens.","Two lower courts had already dismissed the request prior to the ruling.","California officials questioned the accuracy of the government's non-citizen list and its methods.","The decision leaves lower court rulings in place and ends the bid to disqualify ballots."],"topics":["Politics"],"lang":"eng","publishedAt":"2026-11-03T03:32:36.000Z","ingestedAt":"2026-11-03T03:40:06.020Z","story":"https://brief.concise.news/story/de4c34d3-24db-46b6-ad42-02db7bf68854","storyId":"de4c34d3-24db-46b6-ad42-02db7bf68854","image":"https://ichef.bbci.co.uk/ace/standard/240/cpsprodpb/8c3e/live/cffa1c00-d726-11f1-b237-93d5595d4291.jpg","author":"Sareen Habeshian","dek":"The ruling, which comes on the eve of the midterm elections, essentially ends the Trump administration's bid to disqualify the ballots in the state."}