Posted on 10/15/2024 3:57:47 PM PDT by Aquamarine
The Virginia governor’s office is hitting out at what it says is an "unprecedented" lawsuit by the Department of Justice (DOJ) in response to Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s efforts to remove noncitizens from its voter rolls.
The DOJ is claiming that Youngkin violated the National Voter Registration Act with an executive order that required the election commissioner to regularly update the state’s voter lists to remove individuals who have been "identified as noncitizens" and had not responded to a request to verify their citizenship in 14 days.
Virginia has announced that it has removed more than 6,000 individuals between Jan 2022 and July 2024.
The complaint says federal law says that states must complete their maintenance program no later than 90 days before an election under a clause known as the Quiet Period Provision. The complaint notes that voters were identified as possible noncitizens if they responded "no" to questions about their citizenship status on certain forms submitted to the state Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV).
"This systematic voter removal program, which the State is conducting within 90 days of the upcoming federal election, violates the Quiet Period Provision," the DOJ said.
The Justice Department seeks injunctive relief that "would restore the ability of impacted eligible voters to vote unimpeded on Election Day," and "would prohibit future quiet period violations," the DOJ said in a statement.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Aren’t provisional ballots the remedy for this sort of thing (for legal voters accidentally removed from the rolls, I mean)?
Tell them to shove it.
The little commie twerp Garland is screwing the Americans again. Filthy bass turd.
Can’t wait to see Garland disappear.
If Trump wins I pray he gets an absolute pitbull for AG who goes after these scumbags so we are never put in this position again. Think about it: We are 3 weeks away from potentially losing this country. How the hell did we get here?
So they say they are not citizens and the DOJ finds believing what they say problematic for what reason?
The GOP and their minions is how we got here, Mitch McConnell and friends.
One of the first and foremost priorities that President Trump will have once he is inaugurated must be to establish severe and draconian penalties for election fraud and for aiding or abetting election fraud, and that will include voting by non-citizens.
The dems are going way past legal or ethical.. For God’s sake.. Get a grip and stop them!!!
Either you do your job or this country will reach its sad end..
There isn’t room nor time to quibble.. DO WHAT YOU ARE THERE FOR!!!
Non-citizens should not be allowed to vote in ANY election. Ever.
That and cheap labor, so the “forgotten men and women” will be forgotten once more.
TRU DAT n’th degree !!!
THe DOJ isn’t very good at math, apparently.
Hello? Inaugurated? Trump? Cant you see the steal 2.0 is etched in stone? Didn’t 2020 teach us anything?
Youngkin should arrest the DOJ lawyers when they show up in court to plead their case, for violating state election laws.
If an illegal registers to vote 60 days before the election, then he can’t be removed from the list of eligible voters? Am I reading that correctly?
The feds are registering all of the illegal aliens:
https://nypost.com/2024/06/14/us-news/how-non-citizens-are-getting-voter-registration-forms-across-the-us-and-how-republicans-are-trying-to-stop-it/
Just follow the Texas court that ruled to dismiss an AG Paxton suit against a town that illegally mailed out mail-in ballots to everyone in their jurisdiction. The judge said the case was moot because the ballots had already been mailed.
Youngkin should tell the DoJ that their case is moot because the voter rolls have already been purged.
-PJ
"The complaint says federal law says that states must complete their maintenance program no later than 90 days before an election under a clause known as the Quiet Period Provision."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
To begin with, state compliance with the Constitution is more important than complying with a questionable federal law imo.
More specifically, post-Civil War lawmakers had expressed their concern that states who allow non-citizens to vote wrongly nullify the Constitution's "Uniform rule of Naturalization Clause."
"Article I, Section 8, Clause 4: To establish an uniform Rule of Naturalization [emphasis added], and uniform Laws on the subject of Bankruptcies throughout the United States;"
" If the States can admit to the elective franchise those who are not citizens, thereby neutralizing the votes of citizens, not only the Federal power of naturalization becomes a nullity, but" * * * * "a minority of citizens by the aid of aliens may control the government of the States, and through the States the government of the Union [emphasis added]." —Appendix to the Congressional Globe, 1868. (See near middle of 1st column.)
" Whatever difference there may be as to what other rights appertain to a citizen, all must agree that he has the right to petition and also to claim the Protection of the Government. These belong to him as a member the body politic, and the possession of them is what separates citizens of the lowest condition from aliens and slaves. To suppose that a State can make an alien a citizen or confer on him the right of voting would involve the absurdity of giving him the direct and immediate control of the action of the General Government, from which he can claim no protection and to which he has no right to present a petition [emphasis added]." —Appendix to the Congressional Globe, 1868. (See bottom half of 1st column.)
Next, the Constitution's drafters gave the states, not the feds, the power to decide voter qualifications, evidenced by Article I, Section 2, Clause 1 (1.2.1).
"Article I, Section 2, Clause 1: The House of Representatives shall be composed of Members chosen every second Year by the People of the several States, and the Electors in each State shall have the Qualifications requisite for Electors of the most numerous Branch of the State Legislature [emphasis added]."
Note that 1.2.1 gives state-qualified citizens the power to vote only for representatives, not senators or POTUS. The states later gave voters the power to vote for federal senators.
And it remains that ordinary citizen voters still don't have the express constitutional power to vote for POTUS. The fact that we do vote for POTUS is deceptive smoke and mirrors by the corrupt, constitutionally undefined political parties, probably intended to make us deplorables think that we are in control of the Oval Office.
Next, when Virginia Minor claimed that her citizenship automatically gave her the right to vote under the 14th Amendment's Equal Protections Clause, the Supreme Court clarified in Minor v. Happersett (Minor) that citizenship doesn't guarantee the right to vote, Minor living in the "wrong" state which gets us back to 1.2.1 above.
In fact, the justices had referenced 1.2.1 in the Minor case opinion.
"The members of the House of Representatives are to be chosen by the people of the States, and the electors in each State must have the qualifications requisite for electors of the most numerous branch of the State legislature." —Minor v. Happersett, 1874.
What we're seeing now is that desperate elite Democrats and RINOs are trying to gift illegal immigrants the right to vote in order to try to stay in power, a slap in the face to women who had to work hard for their right to vote, evidenced by the 19th Amendment, that amendment pioneered in part by Virginia Minor's work.
"19th Amendment: The right of citizens of the United States to vote shall not be denied or abridged by the United States or by any State on account of sex.
Congress shall have power to enforce this article by appropriate legislation."
The bottom line concerning feds limiting the states in removing ineligible voters is that the feds themselves are unconstitutionally interfering with a federal election imo, unthinkingly helping to nullify the Constitution's Uniform Rule of Naturalization Clause imo.
Regarding renegade states allowing illegals to vote, also note that Section 2 of the 14th Amendment (14A), that amendment ratified shortly after the excerpts above appeared in the congressional record, is a penalty for states where ballot box fraud has occurred.
Especially consider the zero tolerance "hair trigger" wording in that section that should be a warning for any state thinking about rigging an election, letting non-citizens vote just one example of doing so.
Excerpted from 14A:
"But when the right to vote at any election"
"is denied to any"
"or in any way abridged,"
"Section 2: 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: The Congress shall have power to enforce, by appropriate legislation, the provisions of this article."
In fact, consider that the post-Civil War congressional Republicans who drafted Section 2 made it to discourage Southern Democrats (my words) from rigging the ballot boxes that Democrats are now alleged to have done for 2020, 2022 and possibly earlier elections!
"Because slavery (except as punishment for crime) had been abolished by the Thirteenth Amendment, the freed slaves would henceforth be given full weight for purposes of apportionment. This situation was a concern to the Republican leadership of Congress, who worried that it would increase the political power of the former slave states, even as such states continued to deny freed slaves the right to vote." —Apportionment of Representatives
But even with its zero tolerance wording, Pence and the J6 Congress still wrongly ignored allegations of vote-counting fraud imo.
Also, in addition to trying to tap the illegal votes of illegal aliens to try to stay in power, desperate elite Democrats recently unilaterally threw out 14+ million primary votes for Biden after his bad interview with Trump, giving Biden's votes to presidentially unqualified (imo) Harris, and need to be held responsible for violating Section 2 imo.
Consider that if this were a better world, the feds would be reminding all states before an election that the feds will be darkening the doorway of any state to investigate allegations of possible violations of constitutional voting integrity protections, including policing elections for violations of the Uniform Rule of Naturalization Clause.
But since Congress and renegade states have repeatedly proven that they are enemies of the people imo, it is now up to Democratic and Republican Trump supporters to effectively "impeach and remove" ALL (exceptions?) state and federal lawmakers and executives in November.
In fact, it's up to us Trump supporters to take the first MAJOR step in draining the swamp by supporting hopeful Trump 47 with a new, Constitution-respecting Congress, new state lawmakers too, not only so that he will not be a lame duck president from the first day of his second term, but will support him to quickly finish draining the swamp.
Finally, let's not allow the anti-Trump media try to fade our memories of what we witnessed on July 13.
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