There’s still a chance this may come back to the high court before election day.
Wednesday, October 30, the United States Supreme Court granted an emergency application from Virginia election officials. The ruling prevents a lower court order from remaining in place, which had prevented election officials from removing over 1,600 people who self-identified as noncitizens from voter rolls. They generally had noncitizen residency documents or declared to the DMV, that they were not US citizens when obtaining driver’s licenses.
Patricia Giles, a Biden appointee to the federal district court, granted a petition filed by a progressive legal coalition that kept Virginia officials from purging noncitizens who are not permitted to vote. The district court based the injunction, which mandates forcing noncitizens back on the ballot, on a…
