Virginia filed an appeal in the U.S. Supreme Court after a Biden-appointed judge ruled last week that the commonwealth must put non-citizens back onto its voter rolls just days before the 2024 election.
U.S. District Judge Patricia Giles’ order was kept in place by a federal appeals court on Sunday, prompting Virginia Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin and Attorney General Jason Miyares to take the case to the Supreme Court. Youngkin’s attorneys argued before the federal appeals court that the lower court’s injunction against Virginia purging voter rolls on non-citizens was legally flawed and too disruptive before the election, POLITICO reported.
In a unanimous ruling, the three judges on the appeals court said that Virginia’s process for removing non-citizen voters during a 90-day “quiet period” before the election by using data from the Department of Motor Vehicles appears to…
