CA Supreme Court orders Riverside County Sheriff Bianco to pause probe, preserve seized ballots

The California Supreme Court on Wednesday ordered a county sheriff who seized more than half a million 2025 election ballots to pause his probe into election fraud allegations while the judges review the legal challenge against it.

The order came after California Attorney General Rob Bonta, a Democrat, last month asked the court to step in. A voting rights group is also challenging the ballot seizure.

Thank you for referencing that article DFG.

Local election officials told the county Board of Supervisors last month that the complaint was unfounded.

FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument

Sheriff Bianco took an oath to protect and defend the Constitution which includes investigating complaints concerning possible violations of Section 2 of the 14th Amendment, that section a penalty for states where voting integrity has been compromised. And based on the information in the OP, local election officials may be obstructing the Bianco's official efforts to properly investigate an official complaint concerning the results of a vote possibly being compromised.

The problem (imo) for the local election officials is the zero tolerance, "hair trigger" language of that section doesn't give them much wiggle room to obstruct Bianco's duties.

is denied to any
or in any way abridged,
Section 2 of 14A: Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed. But when the right to vote at any election [all emphases added] for the choice of electors for President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, the Executive and Judicial officers of a State, or the members of the Legislature thereof, is denied to any of the male inhabitants of such State, being twenty-one years of age, and citizens of the United States, or in any way abridged, except for participation in rebellion, or other crime, the basis of representation therein shall be reduced in the proportion which the number of such male citizens shall bear to the whole number of male citizens twenty-one years of age in such State. [Apportionment of Representatives]
Section 5 of 14A: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article.

In fact, here's third-party opinion that Section 2 is being wrongly ignored, evidence of the corrupt uniparty imo.

No serious effort was ever made in Congress to effectuate § 2, and the only judicial attempt was rebuffed.2 , cert. denied, 328 U.S. 870 (1946). —Apportionment Clause
The Section had long been dead. But there are two camps of legal scholars who wish to revive it. The first consists of those who would like to see Section Two enforced to punish states that abridge their citizens’ right to vote, especially in the wake of Shelby County v. Holder. Recently, Joshua Geltzer, the executive director at Georgetown’s Institute for Constitutional Advocacy and Protection and the former senior director for counterterrorism at the National Security Council, added himself to this camp. The second camp is using Section Two, which distinguishes on the basis of gender, as evidence that Section One’s Equal Protection Clause does not prohibit gender-based discrimination. Jonathan Mitchell spearheads this movement. —The Worrisome Ghost of the Fourteenth Amendment’s Second Section

In stark contrast to the political parties blatantly ignoring Section 2 on J6 2020, note Thomas Jefferson's advice against ignoring parts of the Constitution.

In every event, I would rather construe so narrowly as to oblige the nation to amend, and thus declare what powers they would agree to yield, than too broadly, and indeed, so broadly as to enable the executive and the Senate to do things which the Constitution forbids. —Thomas Jefferson: The Anas, 1793.

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