On Friday, a Democrat-appointed federal prosecutor ordered Virginia to place more than 1, 500 reportedly” self-identified” noncitizens up on the state’s voting rolls ahead of the November competition.
” This be clear about what just happened: just eleven times before a Presidential election, a federal judge ordered Virginia to restore over 1, 500 people— who self-identified themselves as noncitizens — back onto the vote rolls”, Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin said in a speech.
The Biden-Harris Department of Justice ( DOJ), which sued the United States last week to stop its elections department from removing noncitizens and other ineligible registrants from the voter rolls before Nov. 5, requested the order in response.
The very political organization claimed that these steps were instigated by the 1993 National Voter Registration Act. Any plan whose goal is to carefully remove the names of disqualified voters from the official lists of eligible voters must be completed by states” no later than 90 days prior to the date of a principal or standard election for Federal office.”
According to Fox News, Judge Patricia Giles, a Biden appointee, “issued a preliminary injunction … to reinstate all]individuals ] that had been removed from state voter rolls in the state in the last 90 days, finding that the removals had been in fact ‘ systematic,’ not individualized”. According to her, she argued that the state was breaking federal law using this logic.
Youngkin claimed that nearly all the 1,500 or so” self-identified” foreign nationals who were removed from the rolls “had previously presented immigration documents confirming their noncitizen status, which federal authorities have recently verified.” The GOP governor added that the then-Gov. signed the law into law to remove these individuals from the registration lists. Tim Kaine, a Democrat who is now a U. S. Senator.
In a statement released on Friday, Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares expressed his disapproval of Giles ‘ decision. The Biden-Harris administration’s “open practice” to “warn the enemies of so-called progress” was specifically addressed by the chief law enforcement officer of the Commonwealth.
” That is the definition of lawfare. To openly choose weaponization over good process and lawfare over integrity is n’t democracy: it’s bullying, pure and simple, and I always stand up to bullies”, Miyares said.
The United States will take the decision to appeal to the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and, “if necessary, the U.S. Supreme Court,” according to Youngkin and Miyares in their respective statements.
The Federalist staff writer Shawn Fleetwood graduated from the University of Mary Washington. He previously served as a state content writer for Convention of States Action and his work has been featured in numerous outlets, including RealClearPolitics, RealClear Health, and Conservative Review. Follow him on Twitter @ShawnFleetwood