Posted on 03/20/2025 10:06:13 AM PDT by yesthatjallen
New York State's top court on Thursday struck down a New York City law that would have permitted more than 800,000 legal non-citizens to vote in municipal elections.
In a 6-1 decision, the Court of Appeals ruled that the law, passed by the City Council in 2021, violates the state constitution.
"Americans have fought over the meaning of citizenship and the right to vote since the earliest days of our Republic," Chief Judge Rowan Wilson wrote for the majority. "Whatever the future may bring, the New York Constitution as it stands today draws a firm line restricting voting to citizens."
New York's law would have allowed permanent legal residents and other legally documented non-citizens, such as those with work authorization, who had lived in the city for at least 30 days to cast ballots in municipal contests. Non-citizens would still have been barred from voting in state or federal elections.
The law had been blocked from taking effect by lower court rulings, after state Republicans challenged its constitutionality.
More than a dozen U.S. cities and towns, including San Francisco and Washington, D.C., allow non-citizens to vote in some local elections.
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Wow! A blue state Republican party fought back and won! May spines can be regrown
In reality.
What that means is they know there are more than enough illgals to vote every one in politics OUT of office.
And install an illegal in their place.
Maybe spines**
It is time to deport the “Democratic” Party.
Government makes up laws and then forces people to sue to correct. That is a lot of time and money! That appears to be today’s government policy, sue us if you don’t like it….
What a surprise! Especially that it is a 6-1 decision.
Democrats aren’t going to like this.
The punishment is the process.
wow judges with brains!
Meanwhile, Gotham still has RCV for mayorals, mail in voting, and electronic voting machines and tabulators.
Deep State’s not worried.
It is a very interesting outcome. There is a reason the rat Judges did this.
I’d like to read the opinion of the one dissenting judge’s logic.
Good news.
shocking it needed to go to court but I’ll take it.
Too late. They’ll probably switch to mail only ballots and take 11 weeks to count them.
It’s time to demand citizens show ID’s...
BTW, when is Trump’s federal election reform coming? That needs to be moved WAY up the priority list. I have not heard him say anything about it since he was inaugurated.
I agree.
Someone needs to ask Trump.
WERE THEY PRINTING 2 SETS OF BALLOTS???
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