26 Republican attorneys general join Virginia in petitioning Supreme Court to rule on voter roll

FIRST ON FOX: Twenty-six Republican attorneys wide joined Virginia connected Monday successful urging nan Supreme Court to halt a little tribunal determination that restored nan voting authorities of 1,600 residents.

The amicus little backs Virginia’s contention that nan ruling is overly wide and lacks opinionated nether a proviso of nan National Voter Registration Act (NRVA), which orders states to halt each "systematic" elector rotation attraction 90 days earlier an election. It now has nan support of each Republican-led U.S. state, giving it outsize attraction successful nan last agelong earlier nan election.

In nan amicus brief, attorneys wide urged nan tribunal to assistance Virginia’s emergency mobility and "restore nan position quo," noting that doing truthful "would comply pinch nan rule and alteration Virginia to guarantee that noncitizens do not ballot successful nan upcoming election."

The states besides sided pinch Virginia successful objecting to nan Justice Department’s reference of NVRA protections, which they said was overly broad.

Moreover, they said, nan rule successful spot successful Virginia was not designed to "systematically" region residents from nan elector rolls, arsenic Justice Department officials cited successful their suit earlier this month.

The Justice Department had based on nan removals were conducted excessively adjacent to nan Nov. 5 elections and violated nan "quiet period" proviso nether NVRA. That contention was backed by a national judge successful Alexandria, which ordered nan affected voters backmost connected nan rolls, and upheld by nan Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals.

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Election officials person respective voting booths disposable for Early Voting astatine nan Broomfield City and Coutny Building. (Photo by David Jennings/Digital First Media/Boulder Daily Camera via Getty Images) (getty)

In nan amicus brief, lawyers picture nan ruling arsenic a "sweeping mentation of nan NVRA" that "converts a procedural statute into a substantive national regularisation of elector qualifications successful elections—an mentation that would raise superior questions astir nan constitutionality of nan NVRA itself."

Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has insisted nan voters were removed legally and that nan removal process is based connected precedent from a 2006 authorities rule enacted by then-Gov. Tim Kaine, a Democrat. 

That process compared nan authorities Department of Motor Vehicles' noncitizens database to its database of registered voters. Those without citizenship were past informed that their elector registration would beryllium canceled unless they could beryllium their citizenship successful 14 days.

Youngkin and Virginia Attorney General Jason S. Miyares person based on nan little tribunal rulings are "individualized" and not systematic, arsenic nan Justice Department alleged earlier this month. 

They based on that restoring them conscionable days earlier an predetermination is apt to inject caller chaos into nan voting process – an statement backed by nan group of Republican states successful nan Monday filing.

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Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin speaks connected Day 1 of nan Republican National Convention (RNC) astatine nan Fiserv Forum successful Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., July 15, 2024.  (REUTERS/Brian Snyder)

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"This Court should cull Respondents’ effort to alteration nan rules successful nan mediate of nan crippled and reconstruct nan position quo ante," they wrote. "The Constitution leaves decisions astir elector qualifications to nan group of Virginia. And nan group of Virginia person decided that noncitizens are not permitted to vote."

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