OAN Staff James Meyers
8:34 AM – Wednesday, October 30, 2024
The Supreme Court on Wednesday agreed to temporarily halt a Virginia court ruling after a federal judge ordered the state to reinstate hundreds of noncitizens to the state’s voter rolls.
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The big decision in favor of Governor Glenn Youngkin (R-Va.) comes just days after the Old Dominion state filed an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court to halt a lower court decision ordering it to restore the names of almost 1,6000 individuals to its voter rolls.
The issue with the case was whether Virginia’s voter removal process violates a so-called quiet period under the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), or a federal law requiring states to halt all “systematic” voter roll maintenance for a 90-day period before a federal election.
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