Supreme Court allows Virginia to remove suspected non-citizens from voter rolls

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Amy Howe on SCOTUSBlog reports on how the justices yesterday granted Virginia’s request to reinstate a program it had used since August to purge more than 1,600 people from its voter rolls. The program, put in place by Virginia’s Republican governor, uses a driver’s license database to expedite the removal of suspected noncitizens in the 90 days before the election. A federal judge had found that at least some of those people were U.S. citizens eligible to vote.

In a brief unsigned order, the justices granted Virginia’s request to put a lower court order on hold while a challenge to it continues. Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson indicated that they would have denied the state’s request.

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