Just four days before the Mid Term elections, on Friday, October 30, some judges were busy issuing rulings intended to impact the elections. The irony could not be greater as October 30th, is also known as “Mischief Night” or “Devil’s Night.”
Mischief Night, in the northeast, typically involves pranks, such as ringing door bells or tossing toilet paper into trees. Devil’s Night in Detroit escalated into property damage, vandalism and arson. On October 30, 2026, some judges appointed by Democrats followed Detroit’s example. – On October 30, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals rejected the Trump DOJ—notice it is now “Trump DOJ” while before it was simply “DOJ” instead of “Biden DOJ” or “Obama DOJ”— last-minute bid to force California to remove 20,000 ballots mailed to non-citizens.
The case began when the DOJ sued California and L.A. County over suspected 20,000 non-citizens registered to vote and who had been mailed ballots were compared to USCIS immigration, Social Security and passport records. The DOJ appealed after Clinton appointed US District Court Judge David Carter denied the DOJ’s request for a Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) on Wednesday night.
Ninth Circuit Biden-appointed Judge Gabriel Sanchez denied the DOJ’s appeal; Trump appointed Judge Mark Bennett doubted the court’s jurisdiction since the trial court had not yet ruled.
When the Ninth Circuit en banc denied the DOJ appeal, Trump appointed Judge Patrick Bumatay’s dissent included “If California receives these suspect ballots, mixes them with legitimate ballots, and then processes them, the potentially illegal votes will be counted toward the election of our representatives—threatening to dilute the vote of eligible citizens.
“The federal government proposes a modest remedy—stopping California from mixing the ballots of citizens and suspected noncitizens. This solution would not cancel any vote but would allow time to verify the eligibility of suspected noncitizens.”
Hmmm, what a logical approach.
On October 30 the Ninth Circuit refused to lift a preliminary injunction that sharply restricts the Trump administration’s investigations into potential noncitizen voting in nine states, leaving the block in place through Election Day. Biden-appointed U.S. District Judge Araceli Martínez-Olguín (Northern District of California) issued a sweeping preliminary injunction on October 21 in California Nurses Association et al. v. Mullin et al.
The order bars DHS, ICE, USCIS, HSI, and related officials from conducting elections-related field operations and field interviews in California, Connecticut, Georgia, Missouri, Nevada, New York, Pennsylvania, Washington, and Wisconsin, when those operations “involve or are likely to involve” persons the government “know[s], suspect[s], or should reasonably know or suspect are U.S. citizens.”
Hmmm, a district court judge issuing orders for 9 states?
It also restricts operations based wholly on certain records generated under the administration’s Voter Eligibility Matching Policy. The injunction runs through November 3, 2026 (Election Day: what a coincidence!
The Ninth Circuit Trump appointed Judge Tung’s dissent included “By enjoining the government from even investigating illegal voting, the district court departed from its limited role, and trampled on the President’s in the process. And by relying on section 11(b) of the Voting Rights Act … it confused investigation for intimidation.”
The Judge emphasized that federal law prohibits noncitizens from voting in federal elections (18 U.S.C. § 611), with criminal and immigration consequences, and that Article II gives the President “exclusive authority and absolute discretion” to decide which crimes to investigate and prosecute.
“The district court here installed itself as a super-executive responsible for deciding when investigations are really in the public interest.”
“Federal courts do not exercise general legal oversight of the … Executive Branch[].”
Section 11 (b) of the Voting Act limits the right of action to the DOJ.
Hmmm, what a logical approach.
On October 30, Biden appointed Judge Trina Thompson of the Federal District Court in San Francisco, in a suit brought by the Service International Union, in an ex parte hearing (meaning without hearing) from the DOJ, blocked President Trump from demanding states remove fake or illegal alien voters from their voter rolls, blocked threats of prosecution for election workers and ordered the DOJ to disclose pending election-related warrants and subpoenas.
Previously Judge Thompson accused Trump of racism when she blocked the US President and his administration from ending the “temporary” protected status of migrants from Honduras, Nicaragua, and Nepal, and prevented their being sent back to their home countries. The judge pulled the race card by saying, “Color is neither a poison nor a crime.”
Hmmm, removing the “temporary” protection for migrants is also not “poison nor a crime.”
On October 30, Biden appointed U.S. District Judge Jennifer L. Rochon, in the Southern District of New York, ordered the government to take down the ads titled “$5,000 to Americans,” “Every Democrat Voted Against No Tax on Tips,” and “Cost of Socialism,” from official government websites and social media accounts (YouTube, Instagram, and others) and the cancellation of any plans to distribute the ads through third parties, including President Trump’s super PAC, MAGA Inc.
Impacting the elections was not limited to judges as on October 27 in Maine the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) urged the state to take action on the 3,181 potentially dead voters and 693 duplicate registrations the PILF had previously identified but the state had yet to take any action.
On October 30, it was reported that ‘Biscuit” received a letter on Virginia Governor Spanberger’s stationary stating that the executive review of Biscuit’s criminal case had determined that her rights to vote had been restored.
The “determination” followed Spanberger’s announcement in August that the initial figure of 66,000 had reached 100,000 individuals who had received restoration of their rights since she took office. Sadly, even if Biscuit were alive (she died 5 years ago) she would not have read the letter as Biscuit was a dog.
Conclusion:
Vote Republican to avoid more “Devil’s Nights.”
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For what it is worth, exit polling indicates that democracy and corruption are among the top concerns of voters. Presumably this means that Trump is both a threat to democracy and corrupt. This is what the Democrat party has made a big part of their campaign strategy and what Democrat voters believe. I can't imagine anything more corrupt or antithetical to democratic process than partisan judges using their power to influence the outcome of an election. Of course facts do not matter to Democrat voters who are animated only by emotion.
Grandma would say;
The *DSA is breeding a scab on the end of their nose.
*Democratic SOCIALISTS of America.
Sadly Destroy Safe America rings closer to the truth.