Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares rebuffed the Department of Justice’s new lawsuit against Virginia as Republicans spotlight the department’s legal action against the state.
The lawsuit, announced by the DOJ last week, was filed after Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) issued an executive order that removed over 6,300 noncitizens from the state’s voter registration rolls in August. Miyares contended that the DOJ is lacking “basic common sense” with its legal action, noting how Youngkin used a law signed by Sen. Tim Kaine (D-VA), then governor of Virginia, back in 2006.
“My question is, where are all these left-wing groups that have brought this lawsuit when Tim Kaine signed this into law or when Ralph Northam or Terry McAuliffe were also similarly acting in a similar capacity?” Miyares said on Fox News’s Fox and Friends First. “So I applaud Gov. Youngkin for…
