移民权益组织提起诉讼，旨在阻止特朗普在华盛顿州搁置选票的努力 该诉讼是抵制特朗普政府压力的最新举动，特朗普政府一直在追查其关于非公民大规模投票的无端指控。
Advocacy Groups Sue to Stop Trump Effort to Set Aside Ballots in Washington State The lawsuit was the latest move to stave off pressure from the Trump administration to pursue its unsubstantiated claim that noncitizens are voting en masse.
华盛顿州的移民权益组织于周五深夜提起诉讼，试图阻止特朗普政府强迫该州选举官员搁置近400名居民的选票，政府认为这些人可能不是公民。
Immigrant advocacy groups in Washington State filed suit late Friday night seeking to bar the Trump administration from forcing state election officials to set aside ballots from nearly 400 residents the administration believes may not be citizens.
这起在西雅图联邦地区法院提起的诉讼，是抵制白宫施压要求阻止非公民投票的最新法律行动——尽管政府在已登记选民是否为公民的问题上往往出错。
The lawsuit, filed in Federal District Court in Seattle, was the latest legal move taken to stave off pressure from the White House to stop noncitizens from voting — even though the administration has often been wrong about whether registered voters are citizens.
西雅图的这起诉讼是为了回应联邦检察官周一向华盛顿州国务卿史蒂夫·霍布斯发送的一封信函，信中要求他指示选举官员不要接受这400人的选票，直到联邦机构能够确定他们的公民身份。
The suit in Seattle came in response to a letter that federal prosecutors sent on Monday to Washington’s secretary of state, Steve Hobbs, demanding that he instruct election officials not to accept ballots from the 400 people until federal agencies could determine their citizenship.
几天后，司法部二号官员特伦特·麦考特随之发出了第二封信，提醒霍布斯先生处理不当选票属于联邦犯罪。
Days later, Trent McCotter, the No. 2 official in the Justice Department, followed up with a second letter reminding Mr. Hobbs that mishandling ballots is a federal crime.
权益组织的诉讼对发送给霍布斯先生的选民名单的准确性提出了质疑，并将其描述为司法部高级官员含蓄的起诉威胁。
The suit from the advocacy groups took issue with both the accuracy of the list of voters sent to Mr. Hobbs and what it characterized as veiled threats of prosecution by senior Justice Department officials.
诉讼坚持认为：“被告的名单不能证明任何事情，他们对未能顺应其要求的选举官员和其他人员发出令人深感恐惧的联邦惩罚威胁是毫无根据的。”华盛顿州并非唯一一个面临特朗普政府巨大压力的州，该州因选民公民身份被视为不合格而面临搁置选票的压力。
“Defendants’ list is not evidence of anything,” the suit maintained, “and their deeply chilling threats of federal penalty for election officials and others who fail to conform to their demands are baseless.”Washington is not the only state that has faced heavy pressure from the Trump administration to set aside ballots from voters deemed to be ineligible because of their citizenship.
政府起诉了加利福尼亚州官员，试图迫使他们搁置2万多名已登记选民的选票，称这些人为非公民。周五，该举动第二次遭到联邦上诉法院的阻止，法院裁定，批准政府的要求将破坏加州对其选举程序的管辖权，并违反宪法的“明文规定”。
The administration sued California state officials, seeking to force them to set aside the ballots of more than 20,000 registered voters it said were noncitizens. That move was blocked for the second time on Friday by a federal appeals court, which determined that granting the government’s request would have undermined California’s authority over its election procedures and violated the “plain text” of the Constitution.
作为一项平行努力，司法部向加州选举官员发出了大量传票，展开了一项不断扩大的刑事调查，试图证明其关于加州选民名册上有数千名非公民的无端指控。
In a parallel effort, the Justice Department has issued a flurry of subpoenas to California state election officials in a widening criminal investigation seeking to prove its unsubstantiated claims that thousands of noncitizens are on California’s voter rolls.
但是，对政府而言是一个重大挫折，旧金山的一名联邦法官在周五晚些时候作出裁决，阻止司法部威胁起诉不遵守其关于处理选票指令的州和地方选举官员。
But, in a major setback to the administration, a federal judge in San Francisco issued a ruling late on Friday blocking the Justice Department from threatening to prosecute state and local election officials who do not comply with its directives on handling ballots.
特里娜·L·汤普森法官作出的这项裁决命令司法部不得基于政府对选民可能是非公民的怀疑，而“威胁、恐吓或强迫州或地方选举官员或工作人员，要求他们停止处理选票”。她已安排在周一举行听证会。
The ruling, by Judge Trina L. Thompson, ordered the department not to “threaten, intimidate or coerce state or local elections officials or workers to demand that they halt processing the ballots” based on the government’s suspicion that the voters might be noncitizens. She has scheduled a hearing for Monday.