美国司法部正在提起上诉。此前，一名法官驳回了其请求，该请求要求暂时阻止最多2万张加州邮寄选票被计入，理由是对公民身份存在所谓担忧。
The US Justice Department is appealing after a judge denied its request to temporarily block as many as 20,000 California mail-in ballots from being counted over purported concerns about citizenship.
特朗普政府于周三晚些时候提交了上诉通知。就在不久前，美国地区法官戴维·O·卡特驳回了司法部寻求所谓临时限制令的请求。加州方面认为，该请求在州法或联邦法律中均无依据，并且实际上将剥夺数千名合法选民的选举权。
The Trump administration late on Wednesday filed a notice of appeal shortly after US District Judge David O. Carter denied the Justice Department’s request for a so-called temporary restraining order that California argued had no basis in state or federal law and would effectively disenfranchise thousands of legal voters.
最新提交的文件使这场法律战升级至位于旧金山的美国上诉法院。与此同时，政府正在推进一项非同寻常的请求，即迫使加州官员将这些选票搁置一旁，直到该州能够核实选民的公民身份。司法部一直主张法院应介入，尽管加州已有数十万张提前选票在11月3日中期选举中被计入。
The latest filing escalates the legal fight to the US appeals court in San Francisco as the administration pursues an extraordinary request to force California officials to set aside the ballots until the state can verify the voters’ citizenship. The DOJ has argued for courts to intervene even as hundreds of thousands of early ballots in California have already been counted for the Nov. 3 midterm elections.
司法部于10月15日对加州提起的诉讼，已成为联邦政府与民主党领导的州之间在法庭上的早期交锋点。此时正值总统唐纳德·特朗普提出毫无根据的说法，声称非公民普遍参与投票——而研究已多次表明这种现象十分罕见。
The DOJ’s Oct. 15 suit against California has emerged as an early flashpoint in court between the federal government and a Democratic-led state amid President Donald Trump’s unfounded claims of widespread voting by non-citizens, a practice that studies have repeatedly shown to be rare.
上周，司法部试图绕过卡特，在法官作出裁决之前直接向上诉法院寻求临时命令，称其处理案件进展过慢。但周一，一个上诉法院合议庭以2比1的投票结果驳回了司法部的请求，将案件发回卡特处理，并将任何可察觉的延误归咎于政府。最高法院最终可能拥有最终裁决权。
The Justice Department last week sought to bypass Carter and seek the temporary order directly from the appeals court before the judge could issue a ruling, arguing he was moving too slowly to resolve the case. But on Monday, an appeals court panel voted 2-1 to deny the DOJ’s request and send the case back to Carter, blaming the government for any perceived delay. The Supreme Court could ultimately have the final say.
州和地方官员坚称，联邦政府所称的“可能”已在加州登记投票的非公民名单——该名单于7月首次提交给州官员——基于有缺陷的数据，不可信。
State and local officials contend the federal government’s purported list of “likely” non-citizens who are registered to vote in California — first presented to state officials in July — is based on flawed data and cannot be trusted.
该案为“美国诉加利福尼亚州”案，案号26-cv-12025，由美国加利福尼亚州中区联邦地区法院（洛杉矶）审理。
The case is United States v. California, 26-cv-12025, US District Court, Central District of California (Los Angeles).