Size of Democratic majorities comes into focus as GOP grapples with loss

CBS News reports: District Judge Jamal Whitehead granted a temporary restraining order blocking the Justice Department from demanding that election workers in Washington state reject ballots of voters suspected of being noncitizens. The department was also barred from threatening workers with prosecution if they don't comply. "Plaintiffs are likely to succeed on their claim that Defendants have exceeded their authority, and the harm to Washington voters whose ballots are set aside on the strength of an unreliable federal list cannot be undone after the fact," Whitehead wrote in the ruling , which came in a lawsuit filed by several groups.

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