The U.S. Supreme Court issued an emergency stay, blocking a lower court order requiring the Virginia to add aliens back to the voter rolls after the state’s Republican governor, Glenn Youngkin, had ordered them removed.
“The application for stay presented to The Chief Justice and by him referred to the Court is granted,” the Supreme Court wrote in an order Wednesday.
The case, Susan Beals v. Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights, pits Beals, the commissioner for the Virginia Department of Elections, against left-leaning activist groups including the League of Women Voters Virginia and African Communities Together. The U.S. Justice Department joined the case on the side of the Virginia Coalition for Immigrant Rights.
The nation’s highest court blocked an Oct. 25 order from the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia, which required Virginia…
