Supreme Court Rules In Favor Of Virginia – Virginia Can Resume Removing Non-Citizens From Voter Rolls
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The Supreme Court sided with Virginia in a major election decision.
They temporarily halted a lower court ruling ordering 1,600 voters back onto Virginia voter rolls.
The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to take up an emergency challenge from Virginia, temporarily halting a federal judge’s decision that ordered it to reinstate hundreds of potential noncitizens to the state’s voter rolls.
The decision is a victory for Gov. Glenn Youngkin and comes just days after the state of Virginia filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court to halt a lower court decision ordering it to restore the names of some 1,600 individuals to its voter rolls.
At the heart of the case is whether Virginia’s voter removal process violates a so-called quiet period under the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), or a federal law requiring states to halt all “systematic” voter roll maintenance for a 90-day period before a federal election.
That argument pitted the Department of Justice — which sued the state over its removal program earlier this month — against Youngkin, who insisted the state’s process is “individualized” and conducted in accordance with state and federal law.
Virginia can now resume removing non-citizens from its voter rolls.
🚨🚨 BREAKING:
SCOTUS rules that Virginia CAN remove non-citizens from voter rolls
If you’re not a citizen, you can’t be disenfranchised pic.twitter.com/xJh4G4wWHu
— Phil Holloway ✈️ (@PhilHollowayEsq) October 30, 2024