FIRST ON FOX: Twenty-six Republican attorneys common joined Virginia on Monday in urging the Supreme Court docket to halt a decrease court docket choice that restored the voting rights of 1,600 residents.
The amicus temporary backs Virginia’s competition that the ruling is overly broad and lacks standing below a provision of the Nationwide Voter Registration Act (NRVA), which orders states to halt all “systematic” voter roll upkeep 90 days earlier than an election. It now has the assist of each Republican-led U.S. state, giving it outsize consideration within the remaining stretch earlier than the election.
Within the amicus temporary, attorneys common urged the court docket to grant Virginia’s emergency movement and “restore the status quo,” noting that doing so “would comply with the law and enable Virginia to ensure that noncitizens do not vote in the upcoming election.”
The states additionally sided with Virginia in objecting to the Justice Division’s studying of NVRA protections, which they mentioned was overly broad.
Furthermore, they mentioned, the regulation in place in Virginia was not designed to “systematically” take away residents from the voter rolls, as Justice Division officers cited of their lawsuit earlier this month.
The Justice Division had argued the removals had been carried out too near the Nov. 5 elections and violated the “quiet period” provision below NVRA. That competition was backed by a federal choose in Alexandria, which ordered the affected voters again on the rolls, and upheld by the Fourth Circuit Court docket of Appeals.
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Election officers have a number of voting cubicles accessible for Early Voting on the Broomfield Metropolis and Coutny Constructing. (Picture by David Jennings/Digital First Media/Boulder Day by day Digital camera through Getty Pictures) (getty)
Within the amicus temporary, attorneys describe the ruling as a “sweeping interpretation of the NVRA” that “converts a procedural statute into a substantive federal regulation of voter qualifications in elections—an interpretation that would raise serious questions about the constitutionality of the NVRA itself.”
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin has insisted the voters had been eliminated legally and that the elimination course of is predicated on precedent from a 2006 state regulation enacted by then-Gov. Tim Kaine, a Democrat.
That course of in contrast the state Division of Motor Autos’ noncitizens checklist to its checklist of registered voters. These with out citizenship had been then knowledgeable that their voter registration can be canceled until they may show their citizenship in 14 days.
Youngkin and Virginia Lawyer Common Jason S. Miyares have argued the decrease court docket rulings are “individualized” and never systematic, because the Justice Division alleged earlier this month.
They argued that restoring them simply days earlier than an election is prone to inject new chaos into the voting course of – an argument backed by the group of Republican states within the Monday submitting.
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Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin speaks on Day 1 of the Republican Nationwide Conference (RNC) on the Fiserv Discussion board in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, U.S., July 15, 2024. (REUTERS/Brian Snyder)
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“This Court should reject Respondents’ effort to change the rules in the middle of the game and restore the status quo ante,” they wrote. “The Constitution leaves decisions about voter qualifications to the people of Virginia. And the people of Virginia have decided that noncitizens are not permitted to vote.”
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