A federal appeals court ruled Sunday that a lower court was correct in reinstating about 1,600 Virginia voters with questionable citizenship to the rolls.
The ruling comes after Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin issued an executive order in August directing state officials to identify noncitizens, giving noncitizens two weeks to challenge their disqualifications before they can be removed from voting. It was made after immigrant and women's rights groups sued the state and the Board of Elections in response to the award. roll.
Yonkin's lawyer argued that the law applied to actual voters and did not exclude non-citizens. The 4th Circuit Court of Appeals said the state was mixing different parts of the law.
Yonkin vows to appeal 'to Scotus' after judge orders votes returned to 1,600 voters
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin speaks at the Faith and Freedom Coalition's Pathways to Majority Policy Conference at the Washington Hilton on June 22, 2024 in Washington, DC. (Samuel Corum/Getty Images)
The Court of Appeals said in its decision that “the court does not interpret the statute that way.”
He vowed Sunday to take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
“Common sense. Non-citizens should not be on the voter list,” he wrote to X.
The Governor thanked Virginia Attorney General Jason for immediately filing an emergency appeal with the U.S. Supreme Court of Virginia's order to restore more than 1,500 people who identify as noncitizens to the voter rolls. “I will.” Miyares.
On Friday, U.S. Judge Patricia Giles issued a preliminary injunction reinstating all voters removed from the state's voter rolls in the past 90 days. The judge found that the exclusion was “systemic” rather than personal, and therefore a violation of federal law.
Her ruling comes after the Department of Justice filed a lawsuit on Oct. 11 against the state of Virginia, the Virginia State Board of Elections, and the Virginia State Board of Elections, which removed voters from voter rolls too close to the Nov. 5 general election. It was issued on the basis that the state's interests would be harmed by excluding it. It violated the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA).
Yonkin fights back against Justice Department lawsuit over 'common sense' law to exclude non-citizens from voter rolls
The United States District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia is located in Alexandria, Virginia. (Bonnie Cash/Getty Images)
“Let's be clear about what happened: Just 11 days before the presidential election, a federal judge ordered the state of Virginia to reinstate more than 1,500 people who called themselves non-citizens on the voter rolls,” Youngkin said. said in a statement Friday.
“Nearly all of these individuals had previously submitted immigration documents confirming their non-citizen status, a fact recently confirmed by federal authorities,” he added.
Voters will fill out their ballots on Election Day 2023.
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If the case is taken up by the High Court, it would be decided within days of the election.
