In a tremendous win for election integrity, the Supreme Court has ruled in favor of Virginia lawmakers and their ability to remove self-declared non-citizens from state voter rolls.
Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin signed an executive order in August that officiated the removal of registered voters who failed to prove their citizenship status. Thousands of potential non-citizens were slated to have their registration statuses revoked. Provisions were included that allowed individuals a chance to prove their citizenship and be reinstated if removed mistakenly.
Soon after the order’s signing, the Biden/Harris Department of Justice sued the Commonwealth of Virginia in an effort to halt this order and effectively permit non-citizens to influence election results statewide.
On October 25th, the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the DOJ, claiming that the executive order violated the National Voter Registration Act of 1993. Judge Patricia Giles, a nominee of Joe Biden, dictated that the NVRA requires that all state efforts to clean voter rolls must be completed 90 days before an election. With Governor Youngkin having signed the order exactly 90 days before the November 5th election, it would have been impossible for state officials to conduct the directed removals before this deadline. In addition to halting state efforts, Giles’ ruling also mandated the reinstatement of more than 1,600 voter’s registration statuses, despite their proven illegitimacy.
What Judge Giles neglected to consider, however, is that the 1993 law permits exceptions for voters to be removed after the 90 day deadline, including the death of a voter, a conviction that renders a voter ineligible, or if a voter is found to be mentally incapable. Luckily, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear and rule on an emergency challenge to the Fourth Circuit’s decision, following an objection by Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares. Miyares argued that the NVRA does not apply to “self-identified non-citizens,” and his petition against the ruling was supported by the Attorneys General of 25 other states through an amicus brief.
In a 6-3 decision released Wednesday, the Supreme Court overturned Giles’ ruling and permitted the state of Virginia to continue their efforts to preserve the sanctity of their elections. Unsurprisingly, all three left-wing activist justices, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown-Jackson, dissented, siding with the Department of Justice and their efforts to legitimize illegal voting and election fraud. Neither side of the court, however, issued reasonings for their decisions.
The political motivations behind both the DOJ and the involved activist judges are ever apparent. Despite assertions from the federal government that illegal immigrants voting is a conspiratorial non-issue, the current administration seems to fight vigorously for its allowance at every turn. Examples of this can be seen in Democrat legislators’ vehement opposition to the SAVE Act, or alternative DOJ challenges to state voter roll cleanup attempts, such as in Alabama.
If deceased, felon, or mentally unfit voters can be removed at any time throughout election season, why can the same rule not apply for non-citizens who, unlike the other examples, were never supposed to be on the voter rolls in the first place? Additionally, what is being done, by the same authorities who claim that non-citizens do not vote, about the very presence of illegal immigrants on voter rolls? If the issue is non-existent, as people like Joe Biden claim, how are tens of thousands of non-citizens getting registered to vote nationwide?
Thankfully, the Supreme Court’s decision on this highly contentious and detrimental issue grants significant precedent for other states to conduct such voter roll cleanups more conducively and effectively. With the right leadership, states like Texas can more diligently ensure that elections are legitimate and free of fraudulent input from foreign nationals. With a border crisis caused by incompetent federal governance that has ravaged South Texas and allowed for the importation of millions of illegal immigrants, the propensity for election fraud is greater than ever. Texas must take advantage of this Supreme Court ruling by officiating massive voter roll cleanups before each and every election.
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