联邦上诉法院短暂解除了对特朗普政府调查加利福尼亚州涉嫌非公民投票行为的禁令，数小时后又推翻了这一决定，将争议提交由11名法官组成的第九巡回法院全院合议庭重新审理。
A federal appeals court briefly lifted a block on the Trump administration’s efforts to investigate alleged voting by noncitizens in California, then reversed course hours later, sending the dispute to the full 11-judge 9th Circuit for rehearing.
周一晚些时候，一个由三名法官组成的合议庭批准了司法部的请求，暂停了旧金山联邦法官发布的临时限制令。该限制令曾禁止政府在州和地方选举官员拒绝配合时，以起诉相威胁进一步要求搁置选票。
Earlier Monday night, a three-judge panel granted the Justice Department’s request to pause a temporary restraining order issued by a San Francisco federal judge. That order had barred the administration from making further requests to set aside ballots under the warning of prosecution of state and local election officials who declined.
合议庭表示，政府极有可能在辩称其请求和刑事调查属于核心行政职能方面胜诉。
The panel said the government was likely to prevail in arguing that its requests and criminal investigations were core executive functions.
数小时后，根据法院命令，第九巡回法院全院合议庭撤销了该裁决，并下令由所有11名在职法官重新审理此案。此举在全院合议庭审议争议期间恢复了地区法院的限制措施。
Hours later, the full 9th Circuit vacated the ruling and ordered the case reheard by all 11 active judges, according to the court’s order. The move restored the district court’s restrictions while the full court considers the dispute.
“旧金山一名法官发布的、声称限制司法部调查选举官员的临时限制令已被适当解除，”美国第一助理检察官比尔·埃萨伊利在临时限制令恢复前在X平台上写道。“进行刑事调查是行政部门的核心职能，而非司法部门。”
"The TRO issued by a San Francisco judge purporting to restrict DOJ investigations into election officials has been appropriately lifted," First Assistant U.S. Attorney Bill Essayli wrote on X before the temporary restraining order was restored. "Conducting criminal investigations is a core function of the executive branch, not the judiciary."
针对调查涉嫌非公民投票一案的诉讼由工会和民权团体提起，其中包括全美有色人种协进会（NAACP）和美洲拉美裔公民联盟（LULAC）。他们辩称，司法部和国土安全部致选举官员的信件警告涉及涉嫌非公民选票的潜在刑事责任，构成了恐吓。
The case against investigating allege noncitizen voting was brought by labor unions and civil rights groups, including the NAACP and the League of United Latin American Citizens. They argued that DOJ and Homeland Security letters to election officials, which warned of potential criminal liability over ballots linked to suspected noncitizens, amounted to intimidation.
特朗普政府辩称，允许非法投票并叫停调查工作可能导致相关人员面临起诉。
The Trump administration argues that allowing illegal voting and halting investigative work could lead to prosecution for those involved.
“美国人理应对他们的选举充满信任，”Essayli 周一深夜写道。“法院已明确指出，针对违反选举法律行为的首选补救措施是刑事起诉。在‘保护选举行动’的基础上，我们将继续调查并起诉那些违反选举法律或协助违反选举法律的人。”
"Americans deserve to have confidence in their elections," Essayli wrote late Monday night. "The courts have made it clear that the preferred remedy for election law violations is criminal prosecution. Building on Operation Protect the Vote, we will continue investigating and charging those who violate election laws or assist in their violation."
此前，最高法院周一驳回了特朗普政府保护选举的另一项努力，上诉法院的判决随之反转。大法官们拒绝了一项紧急请求，该请求要求加利福尼亚州搁置联邦官员标记为可能为非公民的约 2 万名登记选民的邮寄选票。
The appeals court whiplash followed a separate Supreme Court rejection of the Trump administration's effort to protect the vote Monday. The justices denied an emergency request to require California to set aside mail ballots from roughly 20,000 registered voters federal officials flagged as likely noncitizens.
“我们将继续寻求一切可用的法律途径，以维护我们选举的公正性，并确保联邦法律得到执行，”代理美国副司法部长 Trent McCotter 在 X 上写道。政府曾要求加利福尼亚州将任何涉嫌非法的选票与其他选票分开，并在通过州政府拒绝审查的调查确定这些选民为美国公民之前，不得计算这些选票。
"We will continue pursuing every available legal avenue to protect the integrity of our elections and ensure federal law is enforced," acting U.S. Deputy Attorney General Trent McCotter wrote on The administration had demanded that California separate any allegedly unlawful ballots from other ballots and not count them until those voters are determined to be U.S. citizens through investigations that the state has rejected without review.
“一旦加利福尼亚州将受质疑的选票与合法选票混在一起，就无法再把受质疑的选票分出来了，”司法部在提交给最高法院的请求中写道。
"Once California commingles the challenged ballots with lawful ones, there is no way to get the challenged ballots back," the Justice Department wrote in its request to the Supreme Court.
司法部陷入了一个法律上的“两难困境”：它不得不眼睁睁看着选票在加利福尼亚州被投出，即使它掌握据称是非公民投票的证据，也只能在事后采取法律行动。
The DOJ has been forced into a legal Catch-22 where it has to watch votes be cast in California, even if they have alleged evidence of them being noncitizen voters, and then pursue legal action afterward.
司法部长 Todd Blanche 宣布，周一有 63 人因选举犯罪被起诉。
Attorney General Todd Blanche announced that 63 people were charged with election crimes Monday.
“今天的声明标志着自特朗普总统重返白宫以来，选民欺诈逮捕人数最大规模的激增，”布兰奇在一份声明中写道。“这些外国公民据称利用了美国人民的信任，无视管辖我国选举的法律。司法部将继续调查和起诉选民欺诈，以恢复人们对选举制度的信心。” 司法部称，在过去九周里，已在25个州对195名非法移民提出非法投票和选民登记犯罪指控。司法部表示，自特朗普重返白宫以来，已有239人因投票欺诈罪名被起诉。
"Today's announcement marks the largest surge of voter-fraud arrests since President [Donald] Trump returned to office," Blanche wrote in a statement. "These foreign nationals allegedly took advantage of the trust of the American people and flouted the laws that govern our nation’s elections. This Department of Justice will continue investigating and prosecuting voter fraud to restore confidence in our electoral system." The DOJ has charged 195 illegal immigrants across 25 states with illegal voting and voter registration offenses in the past nine weeks. There have been charges against 239 people with voting fraud offenses since Trump returned to the White House, according to the DOJ.