US Justice Department sues Virginia for purging voters before election
Al JazeeraOCT 20 2024
Republican Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares has filed an emergency petition with the US Supreme Court (SCOTUS) asking the court to overturn a lower court's ruling that stopped the state's removal of suspected noncitizens from its voter rolls.
This comes after a federal appeals court Sunday upheld the lower court's ruling, restoring the registrations of some 1,600 voters removed under an order by Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin, who said the effort is meant to keep noncitizens from voting.
Youngkin's Aug. 7 executive order directed state election officials to use records from the department of motor vehicles to cancel the voter registration of suspected noncitizens within 14 days. The Biden administration and immigrant advocacy groups sued Virginia.
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