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Appeals court rules against Virginia's effort to block re-instatement of suspected noncitizens to voter rolls
A federal appeals court on Sunday ruled that a lower court was correct to re-instate some 1,600 Virginia voters who have questionable citizenship status to the rolls.
The ruling came after immigrants and women’s rights groups sued the state and its Board of Elections after Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin issued an executive order in August directing state officials to identify noncitizens, who were given two weeks to dispute being disqualified before being removed from voter rolls.
Youngkin’s attorneys argued that the law applies to actual voters and that removing non-citizens isn’t covered. The appeals court for the Fourth Circuit said the state was mixing various parts of the law together.
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“That is not how courts interpret statutes,” the appeals court said in its ruling.
On Sunday, he vowed to take the case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
“It’s commonsense: noncitizens shouldn’t be on our voter rolls,” he wrote on X.
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