Court rules challenged against Virginia’s effort to block suspected noncitizens from being reincluded in voter rolls

A federal appeals court on Sunday ruled that a lower court was correct in reinstating about 1,600 people. Virginia voters those with questionable citizenship status on the lists.

The decision comes after Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin issued an executive order in August instructing state officials to identify noncitizens who were given two weeks to appeal disqualification before being removed from the voter rolls, after immigrants and women’s rights groups called out the state and the State Board of Elections. This came after he filed a lawsuit. rolls.

Youngkin’s lawyers argued that the law applied to bona fide voters and did not cover the removal of noncitizens. The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals said the state had confused various parts of the law.

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“Courts do not interpret the law that way,” the appeals court said in its ruling.

He vowed Sunday to take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.

“There is common sense: Non-citizens should not be on our voter list,” he said in his article to X.

“Thank you @JasonMiyaresVA The governor thanked Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares for “immediately filing with the U.S. Supreme Court an immediate appeal of the order requiring Virginia to restore more than 1,500 people to the voter rolls who do not identify as citizens.”

On Friday, U.S. Magistrate Judge Patricia Giles issued a preliminary injunction to reinstate all voters removed from state voter rolls in the past 90 days. The judge found that the suspensions were “systematic” rather than individual and therefore a violation of federal law.

The decision came after the Ministry of Justice filed a lawsuit The Commonwealth of Virginia filed a lawsuit against the Virginia State Board of Elections and the Virginia Commissioner of Elections on October 11, saying the state violated the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 by removing voters from voter rolls too close to the November 5 general election (NVRA).

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“Let’s be clear about what happened: Just eleven days before the presidential election, a federal judge ordered Virginia to return to the voter rolls more than 1,500 people who identified themselves as non-citizens.” youngkin said In a statement released on Friday.

“Almost all of these people had submitted before immigration documents “It confirms their non-citizen status, which was recently confirmed by federal authorities,” he added.

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If the case is heard by the high court, it will be concluded a few days after the election.