Claims extracted
18
sentences that state something as happening or true
Uncertain
11%
2 of 18 hedged
("reportedly", "may", "according to")
Leaning
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no quote in the article backed the model's score
Publisher signals
66/100
The Guardian's corrections and
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Outlets on this story
48
Politics
Same framing elsewhere
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articles that frame the event the way this one does
A federal judge declined to order California election officials to segregate ballots from people the Trump administration claimed were non-citizens, rebuffing a legally thin request from the justice department that appeared designed to cast doubt over the results of the midterms.
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that → decline → midterms
The ruling from US district judge David Carter, nominated to the federal bench by Bill Clinton, comes about two weeks after the justice department delivered a USB drive to election officials in Los Angeles and Sacramento that it said contained the names of 20,000 non-citizens on the state’s voter rolls.
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it → nominate → rolls
There are more than 23 million registered voters in California and non-citizen voting is extremely rare.
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voting → be → California
“This case is about the right of every American citizen to vote in a free and fair election,” Carter wrote in his Wednesday evening ruling.
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Carter → vote → ruling
“Never before in American history has the federal government, on the eve of an election, sought to coerce a state and local government to abandon their own Constitutional elections procedures and bend to the will of the Executive Branch.”
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government → seek → Branch
“In bringing this lawsuit, the Executive would have this Court believe that it reigns as a sole sovereign,” Carter continued.
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Carter → bring → sovereign
The justice department gave officials just 48 hours to review the list and said it would sue the state if officials did not sequester ballots from those whose citizenship it could not confirm.
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it → give → citizenship
The department refused to provide more details about its methodology and Los Angeles officials found preliminary indicators the list was inaccurate.
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list → refuse → indicators
The justice department then sued California on 15 October to try and force the state to sequester the ballots and verify citizenship.
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department → sue → citizenship
The justice department separately has threatened to prosecute election officials in the state if they tabulate ballots from non-citizens.
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they → threaten → citizens
Such a move would be without a legal basis, Sam Trepel, a former prosecutor at the justice department, wrote in a blogpost this month.
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Trepel → write → blogpost
After filing the lawsuit, the Trump administration began providing lists to other counties of suspected non-citizen voters.
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administration → file → voters
When election officials began reviewing them, they found the department had flagged voters who were not on the rolls and had provided insufficient information to verify their citizenship status, according to CalMatters.
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who → begin → CalMatters
Carter’s ruling came after the justice department tried to bypass him entirely.
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department → come → him
After Carter set a 27 October hearing on the justice department’s emergency motion, the department took the unusual step of appealing to the US court of appeals for the ninth circuit, saying Carter was not considering the case fast enough.
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Carter → set → case
A panel of ninth circuit judges ruled 2-1 against the justice department earlier this week.
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panel → rule → department
In July, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced it had identified up to 190,000 non-citizens on California voter rolls.
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it → announce → rolls
The DHS did not provide more details to the state until after ballots had already gone out in the state.
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ballots → provide → state
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