Virginia asked the Supreme Court Monday to block a lower court order to return over a thousand alleged noncitizens to the voter rolls.
Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares vowed to file the emergency appeal Sunday after an appeals court upheld a ruling preventing officials from removing roughly 1,600 individuals who the state says “self-identified” as noncitizens.
“The injunction, which prohibits the application of a law that has been on the books since the Justice Department precleared it in 2006, will also irreparably injure Virginia’s sovereignty, confuse her voters, overload her election machinery and administrators, and likely lead noncitizens to think they are permitted to vote, a criminal offence that will cancel the franchise of eligible voters,” the state argued in its petition.
U.S. District Court Judge Patricia Giles, a Biden appointee, issued an order Friday blocking Virginia’s efforts to remove noncitizen voters within 90 days of the election.
The Department of Justice (DOJ) sued Virginia Oct. 12 over Gov. Glenn Youngkin’s executive order to more frequently remove noncitizens.
“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,” Miyares said in a statement Friday.
“More concerning is the open practice by the Biden-Harris administration to weaponize the legal system against the enemies of so-called progress,” Miyares said. “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.”
A federal judge blocked Alabama’s efforts to remove noncitizens from the voter rolls earlier in October.
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Never underestimate the Democrats willingness to cheat. The Democrats let in 12-14 million poor unvetted illegals and they want them to vote to keep them in power in perpetuity. There is no denying that fact now that the Biden/Harris DOJ is suing the state of Virginia and the state of Alabama for removing thousands of illegals from their voter rolls. That insanity alone should be reason enough for every American to vote for Trump. And Governor Newsom signed a law banning any California county from requiring voter ID to vote. Of course, It is supposed to be illegal for illegals to vote, but the Democrats have passed dozens of “work arounds”. Oregon was the first of 24 states in 2016 to create “motor voter” laws that automatically register people to vote when they receive a driver’s license. Originally they required proof of citizenship to get a drivers license but they dropped that requirement when they passed HB2015 in 2019. I doubt that any of those other states have citizenship verification because now 14 of those 24 states permit people to vote without requiring photo identification. Eight conduct elections entirely by mail — which means little or no verification of voter identity. And even in some states where in-person voting takes place, election officials are not required to verify citizenship or other voting eligibility. Furthermore, almost half the states in the country (24) now permit “ballot harvesting,” meaning that someone other than the voter can collect and turn in his or her ballot that can be fraudulently filled out by someone else.
That’s why the Republican House passed the “Save Act” to ensure that illegals aren’t voting. But 198 Democrats in the House have already voted down the Republicans’ non citizen voting bill to guard against the above listed abuses and the Democrats in the Senate have killed the bill. Vote out every Democrat in the House and Senate because they all want to allow the idiocy of illegals voting that isn’t allowed in any other country in the world. Trump has to win in a landslide to overcome the cheating and has to win both the Senate and the House so that we can pass the necessary laws to restore election integrity. Fortunately, that’s starting to look more and more possible. We need new Federal laws to stop all mail in voting and provable reasons for any absentee ballot. No ballot harvesting or “drop boxes”. Universal picture voter ID with citizenship verification. Same day voting and tabulations of paper ballots, all done on election day and make it a Federal holiday so that it will be easier for working people to vote. Don’t believe the polls, because Trump is winning and he can win big but it will take EVERYONE voting, especially Christians and Evangelicals who have a historical tendency to stay home. This, indeed, is the most consequential election in American history and as Elon says; if we don’t win in 2024, it will be the last time you have a choice.