Virginia has filed an appeal in the Supreme Court after a Democrat judge ruled that non-citizens must be placed back on the state’s voter rolls.
Last week, U.S. District Judge Patricia Giles, who was appointed by President Joe Biden, ruled that Virginia needed to put non-citizens back on the voter rolls despite the fact that it is illegal for them to vote.
The removal of the non-citizens from the voter rolls was prompted by an executive order signed by Youngkin in August, which was designed to ensure that officials examined voter roll data every day and confirmed that it matched with DMV data. This resulted in roughly 1,600 non-citizens being removed from Virginia’s voter rolls.
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R) immediately vowed to appeal the ruling to Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals, calling the judge out for her insane decision in a statement posted on X.
“Let’s be clear about what just happened: only eleven days before a Presidential election, a federal judge ordered Virginia to reinstate over 1,500 individuals–who self-identified themselves as noncitizens–back onto the voter rolls,” he wrote. “Almost all these individuals had previously presented immigration documents confirming their noncitizen status, a fact recently verified by federal authorities.”
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals unanimously sided with Giles’ ruling, ordering Virginia to add the non-citizens back to the voter rolls, prompting Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares to file another appeal to the Supreme Court.
“It’s commonsense: noncitizens shouldn’t be on our voter rolls. Thank you @JasonMiyaresVA for filing immediately with the U.S. Supreme Court for an emergency appeal of the order for Virginia to put over 1,500 people who self-identified as non-citizens back on the voter rolls,” Youngkin wrote in an X post on Sunday.
It’s commonsense: noncitizens shouldn’t be on our voter rolls. Thank you @JasonMiyaresVA for filing immediately with the U.S. Supreme Court for an emergency appeal of the order for Virginia to put over 1,500 people who self-identified as non-citizens back on the voter rolls. https://t.co/rY4ymZduqq
— Glenn Youngkin (@GlennYoungkin) October 27, 2024
The appeals court claimed that Virginia removing non-citizens from its voter rolls violated the supposed 90-day “quiet period” before the election, arguing that it was a violation of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. However, this is not technically correct — as the 90-day deadline from this law was interpreted in 2012 by Florida federal courts to mean that a state is barred from removing a voter from the rolls “based on a change in the residence of the registrant,” not from removing non-citizens from the voter rolls.
