A federal judge in Virginia on Friday ordered the commonwealth to place non-citizens back on its voter rolls.
The judge ruled that removing the registered voters from the rolls violated federal law, WRIC reported.
The Justice Department sued Virginia earlier this month over removing non-citizens from its rolls ahead of the Nov. 5 elections.
The suit was against the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Virginia State Board of Elections, and the Virginia Commissioner of Elections for allegedly violating the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.
The NVRA prevents states from using systematic programs to remove ineligible voters from voter rolls within 90 days of a federal election, according to the DOJ.
While Virginia argued that the non-citizens removed from the voter rolls are ineligible to vote, the judge ruled that they were illegally removed too close to the election.
“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,” Virginia GOP Gov. Glenn Youngkin said in a statement. “Almost all these individuals had previously presented immigration documents confirming their noncitizen status, a fact recently verified by federal authorities.”
“Virginia will immediately petition the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and, if necessary, the U.S. Supreme Court, for an emergency stay of the injunction,” he added.
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares (R) posted on X a statement saying that he will appeal the decision.
“It should never be illegal to remove an illegal voter. Yet, today a Court – urged by the Biden-Harris Department of Justice – ordered Virginia to put the names of non-citizens back on the voter rolls, mere days before a presidential election,” Miyares said. “The Department of Justice pulled this shameful, politically motivated stunt 25 days before Election Day, challenging a Virginia process signed into law 18 years ago by a Democrat governor and approved by the Department of Justice in 2006.
“More concerning is the open practice by the Biden-Harris administration to weaponize the legal system against the enemies of so-called progress. That is the definition of lawfare. To openly choose weaponization over good process and lawfare over integrity isn’t democracy: it’s bullying, pure and simple, and I always stand up to bullies. In the meantime, I encourage every Virginian to exercise their right to vote. Rest assured, I will never stop fighting to preserve the integrity of our election process. The Commonwealth of Virginia will appeal this decision – all the way to the Supreme Court, if necessary.”
Reprinted with permission from Just The News by Natalia Mittelstadt.
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Yet another example that the Democrats have completely weaponized the American justice system. Rule of Law is dead in this country, and we are well on our way to being a third-world socialist banana republic. So what else is new? This is what happens when the American public just sits by while the left systemically takes over everything, until there is nothing left of the constitutional republic we used to have. Having fun yet?
The States are going to have to reestablish their supremacy as was the case in the REPUBLIC as this nation was founded – a nation of SOVEREIGN States banded together for mutual protection and economic benefit on the global stage. The federal government was never intended to be ruling master over the individual Sates, nor subscribe to international interference or submission of our sovereignty to foreign or globalist powers.
So, who appointed this judge, and how about a name to go along with this lunacy?
This is absurd.non-citizens can not vote in OUR elections! Constitutional unlawful. For example, your having a family dinner, and I’m not known , to your family, and I come over and walk into your house and sit at the dinner table and take your food and begin to eat your dinner.
would you allow that?
Whoever this is needs to be hunted down and eliminated
Of course it’s a biden appointed Judge. Who else can biden get to Cheat with his Illegal Alien Terrorist Invasion to vote Illegally..a democrat Judge.
Absurd. The decision, and the comments below of those hiding behind pseudonyms.
I thought this site was for “mature” citizens?
What happened to the requirement to vote you must be a US citizen??
The 1993 Act then is unconstitutional as many of the acts are. Nullify!
If the known non citizens are put back on the voter roll but are flagged to show proof of citizenship required before voting is that acceptable? Then if those non citizens vote and their proof of citizenship fails to meet federal standards as proof of American citizenship or they somehow vote without proving citizenship can they then be arrested as “non citizens who voted in a federal general election.” It then becomes a felony that carries the weight of never being allowed to become an American citizen, their voter registration is purged after the election and they are deported to their last country of residence. A loophole might allow them to later become an American national, not a full citizen, if they have paid income taxes or lived peacefully in America.
Disgusting.. I’m glad they’re appealing! All states need to follow suit, illegal immigrants should never be allowed to vote in our elections!
McCain had a compromise solution to all of this years ago but what has become MAGA along with far left Democrats destroyed that plan. Now we have nothing.
Deport and jail the bad ones and give the good ones a path to citizenship. It’s that simple.
This is outrageous ???????? absolute unconstitutional
how about give them citizenship and let them vote?