Posted on 10/29/2024 7:51:49 AM PDT by TigerClaws
Virginia attorney general Jason Miyares on Monday took the commonwealth’s noncitizen-voter case to the Supreme Court after a lower court blocked officials from purging their voter rolls of noncitizen aliens.
A federal appeals court on Sunday backed a lower court’s Friday ruling that ordered Virginia to restore some 1,600 suspected noncitizens who are ineligible to vote to the state’s voter rolls. Miyares and Governor Glenn Youngkin, both Republicans, responded with a pledge to take the case to the Supreme Court with just nine days left before the election. They followed through on Monday.
The request asks the Supreme Court to pause the appeals court’s Sunday decision. “Not only will the Commonwealth of Virginia be irreparably harmed absent a stay, so will its voters and the public at large,” Virginia wrote in its emergency application for staying the injunction.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit unanimously upheld a Biden-appointed federal district’s judge’s decision, which found that Virginia’s purging of aliens from the rolls came too close to the November election and therefore violates the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. The appeals court agreed that the voter-purge program is a “systematic” removal, rejecting the state’s request to block the order.
By noting the state can still “prevent noncitizens from voting by canceling registrations on an individualized basis or prosecuting any noncitizen who votes,” the latest ruling says Virginia’s claims for an immediate appeal are weak. Virginia officials argued that removing noncitizens isn’t covered under federal law.
In the wake of the loss, Miyares vowed to take the appeal to the Supreme Court “immediately.” Youngkin supported the attorney general’s decision.
“It’s commonsense: noncitizens shouldn’t be on our voter rolls,” Youngkin posted on X. “Thank you [Miyares] for filing immediately with the U.S. Supreme Court for an emergency appeal of the order for Virginia to put over 1,500 people who self-identified as non-citizens back on the voter rolls.”
Judge Patricia Giles sided with the Department of Justice who sued the Virginia Department of Elections earlier this month for violating the National Voter Registration Act, which includes a so-called “quiet period” provision that prevents states from removing voters less than 90 days before an election. The provision is meant to prevent last-minute mistakes.
The lawsuit was filed on October 11 in response to Youngkin’s August executive order that required daily updates to voter lists to remove ineligible voters. More onVoting That Trump-Rally Comedian Didn’t Do the GOP Nominee Any Favors Fourth Circuit Panel Upholds Order Directing Virginia to Restore Aliens to Voter Rolls My Gripe with Early Voting
Former president Donald Trump, who has been concerned about noncitizens voting in elections, criticized Friday’s ruling.
“This is a totally unacceptable travesty, and Governor Youngkin is absolutely right to appeal this ILLEGAL ORDER, and the U.S. Supreme Court will hopefully fix it,” Trump posted on X. “Only U.S. Citizens should be allowed to vote.”
There are more than a quarter million illegal immigrants living in the commonwealth, according to the Migration Policy Institute. In 2020, nearly 4.5 million people voted in Virginia.
Also hoping SCOTUS takes up the 5th Circuit case about votes arriving after election day being unconstitutional.
Could know the night of the election the results and stop the steal.
Dear Judgey, Non-Americans are not allowed to vote. Look it up, Idiot!
heads up, virginia
I hope Florida joins.
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That this issue should even get this far is insane.
What? Non-citizens are not allowed to vote, like felons. Why doesn’t the judge tell Virginia to purge all criminal records and just not enforce laws?
All 8.2 billion people on this planet who can make their way to the US border and then to VA are eligible to vote, SCOTUS?
ANYONE CAN REGISTER RIGHT UP TO & INCLUDING ELECTION DAY-—BUT BAD PLAYERS CANNOT BE REMOVED BEYOND 90 DAYS????
DOESN’T THAT MEAN THAT ILLEGALS CAN GET A 90 DAY WINDOW TO REGISTER & NOT BE REMOVED???
Seems WRONG.
It’s not a big deal if Virginal loses this case.
Virginia has a list of suspected non-citizen registered voters, so simply monitor the publicly-available voter activity information and if any of the names on the list cast a vote, PROSECUTE THEM.
IMHO, The USSC is either afraid to rule or being blackmailed to keep out of the elections.
"Anyone Can Register Right Up To & Including Election Day"
I did not find that to be true, where I live.
Yes, that is what our asinine ANTI-AMERICAN liberal lawmakers passed-
It’s very sad that an asinine ANTI-AMERICAN law like that can even stand, but apparently our side can’t do anything to atop such asinine ANTI-AMERICAN laws whereas the liberal left can almost always stop conservative common sense laws that they don’t like somehow.
Basically What it boils down to is that states can’t blanket ban illegals who sign up 90 days before- BUT, they can ban (and perhaps even arrest” individual illegals who vote or attempt to vote BUT they must do this individually, which means catching all of the illegals trying to vote, or having voted —On the day of voting— only- a monumental task which is tough to enforce.
“Miyares and Governor Glenn Youngkin, both Republicans, responded with a pledge to take the case to the Supreme Court with just nine days left before the election. They followed through on Monday.”
Excellent.
In VA there is same day/Election Day voter registration but they are provisional ballots.
I was hoping for this!
It’s a big deal if their votes swing the elections of many candidates.
Both have done good things for Va.
That's the SECOND ruling of this type this morning -- "too close to the election."
Why the HELL didn't the states get on top of this right after the 2020 election debacle? Why the HELL are the states making such moves a week ahead of the election?
We are either ruled by infiltrator communists working for the Dems or complete incompetents.
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