Yes, you read that correctly. A Biden-appointed federal judge has given more than 1,600 self-identified non-citizens voting rights after they were legally removed with a Virginia law passed in 2006 and signed by then-Democrat Governor, now Senator Tim Kaine. This illustrates just how much Democrat orthodoxy has moved in less than a decade. The judge’s action was precipitated by an injunction request by the Biden administration’s Justice Department that claimed that the voter registrations were wrongly canceled.
The law, as explained by current Governor Glenn Youngkin, “mandates certain procedures to remove non-citizens from voter rolls, with safeguards in place to affirm citizenship before removal…the ultimate fail-safe of same-day registration for U.S. citizens. This law has been applied in every presidential election by Republicans and Democrats since enacted 18 years ago.”
Youngkin went on to say, “Almost all of these individuals had previously presented immigration documents confirming their non-citizen status, a fact verified by federal authorities.” Thomas Sanford, an attorney with the Virginia attorney general’s office, told the judge at the conclusion of Friday’s hearing that the state intends to appeal her ruling. But with the election only a week away, can a legal response succeed in time? (On Monday, Virginia appealed to SCOTUS to reinstate the ban on non-citizens voting.)
There is a particular irony in this judge’s ruling. U.S. District Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles granted the DOJ and the civic groups—including The Virginia Coalition For Immigrant Rights, The League of Women Voters of Virginia, The League of Women Voters of Virginia Education Fund, and African Communities Together (all left-leaning, progressive organizations)—their request for a preliminary injunction to pause the program until after Election Day because it fell within a 90-day “quiet period” preceding an election. Did that stop Special Prosecutor Jack Smith from refiling his politically motivated charges against Trump? Of course not.
The federal government confirmed that these were non-citizens, yet sued Virginia anyway to award them voting rights in the upcoming presidential election. While Youngkin insisted that Virginia “will immediately petition for Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and, if necessary, the U.S. Supreme Court, for an emergency stay of the injunction,” it is now crystal clear that Democrats will do anything to retain power, including this shameless maneuver to order Virginia to violate their own state law and restore non-citizens to its voter rolls. […]
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