Ruling suggests SCOTUS conservatives could interference in election, warns legal scholar Laurence Tribe.
The Supreme Court’s conservative majority, overriding the objections of the court’s liberal members, allowed Virginia on Wednesday to continue its removal of over 1,600 voters from the rolls.
The state’s Republican administration under Gov. Glenn Youngkin has said they are weeding out non-citizens who are not legally allowed to vote, but the U.S. Department of Justice and civil rights groups allege that the purge is also sweeping away actual U.S. citizens.
In a pair of lawsuits, the DOJ and civil rights groups accused Virginia of violating National Voter Registration Act, which prohibits states from “systematically” removing voters from the rolls 90 days or less before an election. A federal district judge ordered Virginia to restore the purged voters to the rolls last week, only for his directive to be reversed in turn by the Supreme Court, which did not explain its decision.
