{"id":1205230,"date":"2022-01-10T15:34:22","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:34:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1205230"},"modified":"2022-01-10T15:49:00","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T20:49:00","slug":"rnc-sues-over-nyc-law-allowing-non-citizens-dreamers-to-vote-in-citywide-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/rnc-sues-over-nyc-law-allowing-non-citizens-dreamers-to-vote-in-citywide-elections\/","title":{"rendered":"RNC Sues Over NYC Law Allowing Non-Citizens, Dreamers To Vote In Citywide Elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Frnc-sues-over-nyc-law-allowing-non-citizens-dreamers-to-vote-in-citywide-elections%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1205230&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>The Republican National Committee (RNC) announced it filed a lawsuit Monday against Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams, the New York City Council and the New York City Board of Elections after the city passed a law allowing non-citizens to vote in city elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAmerican elections should be decided by American citizens. If Democrats can subvert elections this flagrantly in America\u2019s largest city, they can do it anywhere,\u201d RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said in a statement. \u201cThe RNC is suing to protect the integrity of our elections, and we stand ready to do the same wherever Democrats try to attack the basic security of your ballot.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/prod-static.gop.com\/media\/documents\/85007_2022_VITO_J_FOSSELLA_et_al_v_ERIC_ADAMS_et_al_SUMMONS___COMPLAINT_1_1641837327.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">suit<\/a> alleges the new law violates both the state Constitution as well as state election laws.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis law creates a new class of persons called \u2018municipal voters\u2019 who are non-citizens who are either lawful permanent residents or persons authorized to work in the United States, who except for their lack of United States citizenship would be qualified to register to vote,\u201d the suit reads.<\/p>\n<p>The suit further alleges the new law will \u201cdilute the votes of United States citizens\u201d and will \u201ccause an abrupt and sizeable change to the makeup of the electorate, which will force the elective-officeholder Plaintiffs to change the way that they campaign for office and will materially affect their likelihood of future electoral victory.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2022\/01\/10\/eric-adams-alvin-bragg-manhattan-district-attorney\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Adams<\/a> allowed the legislation, which was approved by the majority-led Democratic city council last month, to automatically become law Sunday. Under the new law, approximately 800,000 <a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/06\/08\/democratic-voters-brit-hume-joe-biden-motivated-border-illegal-iimmigrants\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">noncitizens<\/a> and \u201cdreamers\u201d can vote in city wide elections, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/abc13.com\/nyc-non-citizen-voting-new-york-noncitizen-vote-city-eric-adams\/11445310\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">ABC 13<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">More than 800,000 noncitizens and \u201cDreamers\u201d in New York City will have access to the ballot box\u2014and could vote in municipal elections as early as next year\u2014after Mayor Eric Adams allowed legislation to automatically become law. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/Xyxr94NzGu\">https:\/\/t.co\/Xyxr94NzGu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ABC News (@ABC) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC\/status\/1480251768491683843?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 9, 2022<\/a><\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/twitter.com\/ABC\/status\/1480251768491683843?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Individuals who have been lawful permanent residents for at least 30 days in the city, as well as those authorized to work in the states can vote for city wide officials, according to the report. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/dailycaller.com\/2021\/10\/18\/tucker-carlson-illegal-immigrants-kamala-harris\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">(RELATED: Tucker Carlson Says Illegal Immigrants Share More Of His Values Than Kamala Harris)<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cI believe that New Yorkers should have a say in their government, which is why I have and will continue to support this important legislation,\u201d Adams said in a statement, according to ABC 13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Republican National Committee (RNC) announced it filed a lawsuit Monday against Democratic New York City Mayor Eric Adams, the New York City Council and the New York City Board &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":74,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1205230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/74"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1205230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}