The Supreme Court Just Allowed Virginia to Purge Non-Citizens From the Voter Rolls with the Election Days Away

Governor Glenn Youngkin understands the importance of election integrity. American citizens need to know that their votes won’t be diluted by the illegal votes of non-citizens.

The governor issued an executive order to purge some 1,600 non-citizens from the voter rolls — a place they shouldn’t have been in the first place.

The U.S. Department of Justice sued Virginia over what it considers a violation of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, which was enacted to protect the voting rights of citizens. Two courts blocked the purge. Jason Miyares, Virginia’s attorney general, filed an emergency petition with the U.S. Supreme Court.

The high court on Wednesday allowed Virginia to remove the non-citizens from the voting rolls. As expected, the three liberal justices disagreed. From Fox News:

At the heart of the case is whether Virginia’s voter removal process violates a so-called quiet period under the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), or a federal law requiring states to halt all “systematic” voter roll maintenance for a 90-day period before a federal election.

Fox News reported that 26 red state attorneys general submitted an amicus brief to the high court in support of Virginia.

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