Supreme Court Rules Virginia Can, In Fact, Remove Non-Citizens From Voter Roll

Of course, the Associate Press offers really bad headlines

Supreme Court allows Virginia to resume its purge of voter registrations https://t.co/BY6NSKFz0w

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A lot of other Credentialed News outlets are running the same headline, as well as the other AP one

Supreme Court’s conservative justices allow Virginia to resume its purge of voter registrations

ZOMG, those horrible conservative justices subverting Democracy, taking the right to vote away! But, at least the story jumps right into the reality

The Supreme Court’s conservative majority on Wednesday allowed Virginia to resume its purge of voter registrations that the state says is aimed at stopping people who are not U.S. citizens from voting.

The high court, over the dissents of the three liberal justices, granted an emergency appeal from Virginia’s Republican administration led by Gov. Glenn Youngkin. The court provided no rationale for its action, which is typical in emergency appeals.

Non-citizens should not be allowed to vote. Period. Why is the AP not asking why the Liberal justices voted to allow non-citizens to vote in federal elections?

The justices acted on Virginia’s appeal after a federal judge found that the state illegally purged more than 1,600 voter registrations in the past two months. A federal appeals court had previously allowed the judge’s order to remain in effect.

Such voting is rare in American elections, but the specter of immigrants voting illegally has been a main part of the political messaging this year from former President Donald Trump and other Republicans.

1,600 is no small number, and can influence races, especially down ballot ones. And, this is 1,600 they know about

The National Voter Registration Act requires a 90-day “quiet period” ahead of elections for the maintenance of voter rolls so that legitimate voters are not removed from the rolls by bureaucratic errors or last-minute mistakes that cannot be quickly corrected.

Non-citizens are not legitimate voters. Can mistakes be made? Sure. Just like mistakes were made to allow the non-citizens onto the voting rolls.

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