On October 15, 2026, the Justice Department gave California 48 hours to verify voter citizenship and threatened suit over mail-in ballots, then delivered 20,000 L.A. County names and moved to segregate those ballots under 18 U.S.C. 611, the Supremacy Clause and a 1973 Mississippi desegregation case, challenging no state law. The DOJ has charged 28 people from the list, at least eight for allegedly voting more than once, and McCotter's letter threatens election workers who process the ballots. Of 64 reviewed cases, at least 56 defendants are lawful permanent residents and only four are in the country illegally. Marc Elias's firm intervened for Mi Familia Vota, Schumer and Jeffries countersued over federal authority, and a Trump-appointed Utah judge barred the…