Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) asked the justices to intervene after lower courts blocked efforts to cancel registrations of voters who could be noncitizens.
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A divided court sided with Republicans, allowing the state to cull about 1,600 voters less than a week before Election Day.
A divided Supreme Court on Wednesday ruled for Virginia Republicans, clearing the way for an election-eve purge of about 1,600 registered voters who were suspected of being noncitizens. Over three dissents, the court granted an emergency appeal from ...
The Supreme Court allowed Virginia to purge an estimated 1,600 people from its voter rolls as part of a program to block noncitizens from voting.
After several federal judges ruled against the state, it launched an emergency appeal at the Supreme Court, which is fielding a series of election cases this week.
The ruling overturns a lower court decision which held that the removal of noncitizens from the voter rolls came too close to the election.
Virginia Republican officials asked the US Supreme Court on Monday to allow the state to implement a program to remove suspected noncitizens from the voter rolls in one of the first major voting cases to reach the high court ahead of next week’s presidential election.
Virginia can cancel more than 1,600 voter registrations the state claims are held by noncitizens in advance of next week’s election, the Supreme Court ruled on Wednesday. The emergency
In a significant decision, the U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday granted a temporary stay in the ongoing legal dispute over Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s executive order that resulted in the removal of over 6,000 people from the state’s voter rolls.
Virginia has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to intervene to allow the state to remove roughly 1,600 voters from its rolls that it believes are noncitizens.