(The Center Square) – A coalition of 24 state attorneys general has joined Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the commonwealth’s removal of “self-identified noncitizens” from voter rolls.
Miyares announced late Sunday that the commonwealth would file an emergency appeal with the court in a last-ditch effort to block a ruling in an order from the U.S. District Court to return over 1,500 noncitizens to the voter rolls that have been removed since Aug. 7.
A unanimous panel of judges from the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rejected Virginia’s request in a rare Sunday ruling to stop an order from a lower court to reinstate noncitizen registrations removed from voter rolls.
In the amicus brief filed to the highest court, the attorneys general argue that the ruling from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia “undermines the constitutional authority of states to determine voter qualifications” to maintain election integrity “by allowing only eligible citizens to vote.”
The top prosecutors say the District Court’s ruling is “based on flawed interpretation” of the National Voter Registration Act’s 90-day “quiet period.” They say the quiet period “does not apply to the removal of noncitizens from voter rolls.”
“Noncitizens are not eligible voters,” the brief reads. “They were not eligible voters before Congress passed the National Voter Registration Act, they were not eligible when Congress passed the NVRA, and they are not eligible today.”
Miyares has defended the commonwealth’s removal of noncitizens from the voter rolls, saying the ruling was “politically motivated.”
“It should never be illegal to remove an illegal voter,” said Miyares. “The Department of Justice pulled this shameful, politically motivated stunt 25 days before Election Day, challenging a Virginia process signed into law 18 years ago by a Democrat governor and approved by the Department of Justice in 2006.”
The Friday ruling drew criticism from Republicans, including former president Donald Trump, who said the move was an attempt by the Biden administration to “weaponize” the Justice Department.
In the lawsuit filed by the Justice Department, it says the commonwealth unlawfully removed individuals deemed “noncitizens” from voter rolls within 90 days before an election, citing a “quiet period” in the National Voter Registration Act that mandates “no such voter cancelation or list maintenance programs may be conducted” within that time period.
Virginia is joined by the attorneys general of Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia and Wyoming.
A coalition of 24 state attorneys general has joined Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares in urging the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the commonwealth’s removal of “self-identified noncitizens” from voter rolls.
Why are we even discussing this ?!? Does this country not try criminals for TREASON anymore ???
AT least the scotus got the call right, as it came down just a few hrs ago, they ruled THAT VA can keep those non-citizens OFF the rolls!
“It should never be illegal to remove an illegal voter,” said Miyares. “The (Democrat Party’s ruled and controlled) Department of Justice pulled this shameful, politically motivated stunt 25 days before Election Day,
This treasonous Democrat Party will do or say anything to access power and retain it by any means available –
No matter the costs to the people, the government, or the nation.
Why do you think this treasonous Democrat Party has imported and completely supported over 14 Million illegal immigrants at the cost of 25 Billion dollars a month, forced to be paid by the U.S. taxpayers.
This treasonous Democrat Party has become our country’s most dangerous and deadly ENEMY!
Another reason why Trump should get 4 more years to appoint up to 2-3 more Supreme Court Justices who actually know how to read and understand the English language of the Constitutional rebellious spirit of Runnymede freedom, that enshrines, defines and protects the rights of WE THE PEOPLE. Knowing how to define what a woman is would not hurt the country either. Treason indeed is their Reason, as well as the love of situational morality that is supposed to change with every court ruling to the favor of the unconstitutionalist traitors, whose inane policies would allow Putin to have every Soviet citizen sign and submit an unvetted mail-in ballot to determine the outcome of our AMERICAN election. Bernie and his “Commie Law” Ka Ma La would love it.
Start with replacing Roberts and Sotomyor.
When I read and hear about this kind of thing I really am at a loss. When did it become controversial that non-citizens of the United States are not allowed to vote? In what logical universe is this some kind of concept that legal judges and juries have to get together and ponder as if it were some fuzzy consideration with good points on either side of the issue. Beam me up Scotty.