一名联邦法官下达了一项广泛的紧急命令，叫停了特朗普政府近几天采取的各种激进策略，这些策略旨在向全国各地的选举官员施压。
A federal judge imposed a sweeping emergency order halting various aggressive tactics employed by the Trump administration in recent days to pressure election officials across the country.
美国地区法官特里娜·汤普森在周五傍晚批准临时限制令的意见书中表示：“尽管被告声称其行动旨在阻止非公民的非法投票，但他们的行动很可能会产生干扰选举管理和剥夺合法选民投票权的效力。”
“Although Defendants claim that their actions are designed to halt unlawful voting by noncitizens, their actions are likely to have the effect of interfering with election administration and disenfranchising lawful voters,” US District Judge Trina Thompson said in her opinion granting a temporary restraining order Friday evening.
她表示，在她的命令生效期间，司法部和国土安全部不得要求任何州的选举官员隔离选票、从选民名册中清洗选民或停止处理选票。由总统乔·拜登任命的汤普森还阻止了这些机构对选举官员发出刑事起诉威胁，并表示政府不能采取其他“威胁、恐吓或胁迫”选举官员的行动，以要求根据选民没有资格的说法来更改选票处理程序。
She said, while her order is in place, the Justice Department and the Department of Homeland Security cannot demand that election officials in any state segregate ballots, purge voters from voter rolls, or halt ballot processing. Thompson, who was appointed by President Joe Biden, is also blocking threats of criminal prosecutions against election officials from those agencies and said that the administration cannot take other actions that “threaten, intimidate or coerce” election officials to demand changes in ballot processing procedures on claims the voters are ineligible.
汤普森的意见书驳斥了政府数月来声称其能够并且将会起诉选举官员未能在防止非法投票方面做得足够的说法。
Thompson’s opinion rebuked claims the administration has made for months that it can and will prosecute election officials for not doing enough to prevent illegal voting.
她写道：“当州和地方政府雇员按照法律‘履行分发、处理或计票或以其他方式管理2026年中期选举的工作’时，‘即使某一选票属于被被告指称无权投票的登记选民，他们也没有违反联邦刑法’。”
“When state and local government employees perform the work of distributing, processing, or counting ballots or otherwise administering the 2026 midterm election” in accordance with the law, “they do not violate federal criminal law even if a particular ballot belongs to a registered voter alleged by Defendants to be ineligible to vote,” she wrote.
她还要求政府向她通报任何已发出的、与政府为指称个人无权投票而创建的名单相关的“搜查令申请、大陪审团传票或其他获取选举材料或选票的要求”。
She is also requiring the administration inform her of any “search warrant applications, grand jury subpoenas, or other demands to access election materials or ballots” that have been issued related to lists the administration has created to allege individuals are ineligible to vote.
法官将该命令的失效时间设定为11月16日。美国有线电视新闻网已联系司法部寻求置评。
The judge set her order to expire November 16. CNN has reached out to the Justice Department for comment.