{"id":2360544,"date":"2024-10-28T13:14:02","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T17:14:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-turns-to-supreme-court-to-boot-alleged-noncitizens-from-voter-rolls-washington-examiner\/"},"modified":"2024-10-28T13:19:54","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T17:19:54","slug":"virginia-turns-to-supreme-court-to-boot-alleged-noncitizens-from-voter-rolls-washington-examiner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/virginia-turns-to-supreme-court-to-boot-alleged-noncitizens-from-voter-rolls-washington-examiner\/","title":{"rendered":"Virginia turns to Supreme Court to boot alleged noncitizens from voter rolls &#8211; Washington Examiner"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">30<\/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%2Fvirginia-turns-to-supreme-court-to-boot-alleged-noncitizens-from-voter-rolls-washington-examiner%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=2360544&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--><p>Virginia&#8217;s\u200b Attorney \u200dGeneral, Jason Miyares, has filed a petition \u200cwith the Supreme\u2062 Court seeking to overturn a lower\u200b court&#8217;s decision that mandates the reinstatement of over 1,600 individuals identified as noncitizens to the state&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/georgia-grand-jury-returns-indictment-in-trump-2020-election-case\/\" title=\"Georgia Grand Jury Indicts in Trump 2020 Election Case\">voter registration \u200clist<\/a>. This order was issued shortly before the 2024 election, preventing Virginia from verifying voter citizenship through cross-checking DMV\u2063 data and \u200drequiring the state to stop\u2062 any deletions from \u2062the voter rolls during a designated &#8220;quiet period.&#8221;\u200d Miyares argues \u200bthat \u2062this\u2064 injunction undermines longstanding Virginia law, creates confusion\u200c among election officials, and\u200d risks noncitizens \u200bmistakenly believing they can vote, which could <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/voter-suppression-is-real-and-its-not-what-you-were-told\/\" title=\"Voter Suppression Is Real And It\u2019s Not What You Were Told\">disenfranchise eligible voters<\/a>. Following Miyares&#8217;s request, the Supreme Court\u200d has expedited the process, asking for \u200cresponses from\u2064 the \u2062Department\u2064 of Justice and voting rights \u2062organizations by Tuesday afternoon.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Virginia turns to Supreme Court to boot alleged noncitizens from voter rolls<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_1837362\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/virginia\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Virginia\">Virginia<\/a>&rsquo;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/bidens-pick-for-top-us-general-grilled-about-memo-seeking-racial-quotas-in-air-force-recruiting\/\" title=\"Biden&#039;s top US general nominee questioned over memo on racial quotas in Air Force recruitment.\">attorney general asked<\/a> the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/supreme-court\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"Supreme Court\">Supreme Court<\/a> on Monday to step in quickly and halt a recent order by a lower court that forced the state to restore more than 1,600 possible noncitizens to its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/in_focus\/3176891\/purging-ineligible-voter-rolls-stirring-up-2024-election-controversies\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" title=\"\">voter registration<\/a> list.<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares, a Republican, argued in a petition to the high court that the lower court&rsquo;s &ldquo;election-eve injunction,&rdquo; which was issued on Friday and affirmed by the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, violated Virginia&rsquo;s law and &ldquo;common sense.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>The lower court had sided with the Department of Justice and liberal voting rights groups by ordering Virginia election officials on Friday, less than two weeks out from the 2024 election, to stop a process of cross-checking Department of Motor Vehicles data against voter registration lists to check for voters&rsquo; citizenship status.<\/p>\n<p>The court also ordered Virginia election officials to reinstate anyone it had removed through that process during the 90-day window before the election, a time federal law designates as a &ldquo;quiet period&rdquo; during which states are barred from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/doj-goes-on-offense-to-halt-voter-roll-cleanup-washington-examiner\/\" title=\"DOJ goes on offense to halt voter roll cleanup - Washington Examiner\">systematically removing people<\/a> from their voter rolls to prevent accidentally unregistering eligible voters.<\/p>\n<p>Miyares said Virginia would, because of the order, be forced to restore more than 1,600 &ldquo;self-identified noncitizens&rdquo; to its voter registration list, which Miyares said would sow confusion among election officials who had been conducting noncitizen removal efforts for years.<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full is-resized\"><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares addresses the Virginia FREE Leadership Luncheon in McLean, Virginia, on Sept. 1, 2021. (AP Photo\/Cliff Owen)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>&ldquo;The injunction, which prohibits the application of a law that has been on the books since the Justice Department precleared it in 2006, will also irreparably injure Virginia&rsquo;s sovereignty, confuse her voters, overload her election machinery and administrators, and likely lead noncitizens to think they are permitted to vote, a criminal offence that will cancel the franchise of eligible voters,&rdquo; Miyares argued.<\/p>\n<p>In a sign the Supreme Court was planning to expedite addressing Virginia&rsquo;s petition, the high court ordered the DOJ and voting rights groups to submit their replies by Tuesday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p>Miyares&rsquo;s petition came after three 4th Circuit judges, two Obama appointees and one Biden appointee, agreed with the lower court&rsquo;s ruling, saying in an order over the weekend that Miyares&rsquo;s argument was &ldquo;weak&rdquo; because the state had not independently verified that each of the people removed from the voter roll was a noncitizen. That meant the removals were systematic, and <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\">federal law expressly bans systematic removals<\/a> during the quiet period, the three-judge panel observed.<\/p>\n<p>The panel said it was in the public interest to keep the voters on the rolls in case &ldquo;faulty databases or bureaucratic mistakes&rdquo; caused the accidental removal of citizens, who would have little time to correct the state&rsquo;s error.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/live-blog\/2024-election-campaign-live-updates-harris-trump\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">2024 ELECTIONS LIVE UPDATES: LATEST NEWS ON THE TRUMP-HARRIS PRESIDENTIAL RACE<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The panel noted that the state had other means to keep the possible noncitizens from voting.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;Under the preliminary injunction, appellants remain able to prevent noncitizens from voting by canceling registrations on an individualized basis or prosecuting any noncitizen who votes &mdash; options the district court specifically flagged at the hearing and in its written order,&rdquo; the three-judge panel wrote.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> <script data-cfasync=\"false\" src=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/cdn-cgi\/scripts\/5c5dd728\/cloudflare-static\/email-decode.min.js\"><\/script><script>!function(){var g=window;g.googletag=g.googletag||{},g.googletag.cmd=g.googletag.cmd||[],g.googletag.cmd.push(function(){g.googletag.pubads().setTargeting(\"has-featured-video\",\"true\")})}();<\/script><script>var _bp=_bp||[];_bp.push({\"div\":\"Brid_1837362\",\"obj\":{\"id\":\"27789\",\"width\":\"1280\",\"height\":\"720\",\"stickyDirection\":\"below\",\"video\":\"1837362\"}});<\/script><script defer src=\"https:\/\/services.brid.tv\/player\/build\/brid.min.js\"><\/script><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Virginia seeks Supreme Court intervention to remove alleged noncitizens from voter rolls<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":49,"featured_media":2360545,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/AP23004746400576.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[32644,13833,32275,5468,32643],"class_list":["post-2360544","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner","tag-election-integrity","tag-noncitizens","tag-supreme-court","tag-virginia","tag-voter-rolls"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/AP23004746400576.webp","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360544","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\/49"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2360544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2360544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2360545"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2360544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2360544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2360544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}