Supreme Court temporarily halts lower court ruling ordering 1,600 voters back on Virginia voter rolls

The Supreme Court connected Wednesday agreed to return up an emergency situation from Virginia temporarily halting a national judge's determination that ordered it to reinstate hundreds of imaginable noncitizens to nan state's elector rolls. 

The determination is simply a triumph for Gov. Glenn Youngkin, and comes conscionable days aft nan authorities of Virginia revenge an emergency entreaty to the Supreme Court to halt a little tribunal determination ordering it to reconstruct nan names of immoderate 1,600 individuals to its elector rolls. 

At nan heart of nan case is whether Virginia’s elector removal process violates a alleged quiet play nether nan National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), aliases a national rule requiring states to halt each "systematic" elector rotation attraction for a 90-day play earlier a national election.

That statement pitted nan Department of Justice—which sued nan authorities complete its removal programme earlier this month— against Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who insisted nan state's process is "individualized" and conducted successful accordance pinch authorities and national law. 

With conscionable days until nan election, nan court's determination is expected to beryllium nether a microscope.

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Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin speaks astatine a property convention successful Chalmette, Louisiana. (Fox News - Paul Steinhauser)

Virginia’s elector rotation attraction programme was implemented successful August and compares nan authorities Department of Motor Vehicles’ database of self-identified noncitizens to its database of registered voters. Individuals without citizenship were flagged and informed that their elector registration would beryllium canceled unless they could beryllium their citizenship successful 14 days.

The Justice Department based on that nan removals were conducted excessively adjacent to nan Nov. 5 elections and violated nan NVRA’s quiet play provision, a determination backed by a U.S. judge successful Alexandria, who ordered Virginia past week to halt its removals and to reinstate nan registrations of each 1,600 removed individuals. 

Justice Department officials besides cited concerns successful their suit that eligible votes whitethorn person incorrectly been removed from nan rolls without capable announcement aliases pinch capable clip to correct nan mistake. 

In nan state’s petition to nan Supreme Court, Virginia Attorney General Jason S. Miyares objected to nan suit and consequent tribunal ruling connected respective grounds. First, he argued, nan NVRA does not widen to "self-identified noncitizens" successful nan state– adopting a more constrictive reading of nan rule than nan Justice Department, and 1 that he said could render nan superior ground for nan suit obsolete. 

Second, he based on that if nan NVRA does apply, nan authorities still has an "individualized process" of removing voters that is conducted by nan Department of Motor Vehicles and straight by section registration offices. 

Late Monday, attorneys wide from each 26 Republican-led states joined Virginia in filing an amicus brief to nan Supreme Court, backing its assertion that nan removal programme was conducted connected an "individualized" basis, and further, that nan Justice Department’s reference of nan protections granted nether NVRA are overly wide and do not use to noncitizens.

The Virginia Capitol successful Richmond, Va. (AP Photo/Steve Helber)

Attorneys urged nan tribunal to grant 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."

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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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