Supreme Court allows Virginia to continue purging voters
The U.S. Supreme Court has ruled Virginia does not have to restore the registrations of 1,600 voters, some of whom appear to have been wrongly removed.
The court made the decision on its emergency docket and did not give a rationale for it.
Providing a rationale is customary for rulings on an expedited basis.
All three liberal justices on the court — Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson — said they would not have halted a lower court ruling earlier in October ordering the state to restore the voter registrations.
The legal dispute centers on an Aug. 7 executive order by Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican.
Youngkin ordered the state to run its voter registration rolls against DMV data on a daily basis to check for non-citizens.
The justice department and civil rights groups sued, saying the state was violating a federal law that prohibits systematic removals of voters within 90 days of a federal election.
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