{"id":119248,"date":"2024-10-28T08:30:33","date_gmt":"2024-10-28T01:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=119248"},"modified":"2024-10-28T08:30:33","modified_gmt":"2024-10-28T01:30:33","slug":"appeals-court-keeps-virginia-voter-purge-program-blocked-setting-up-supreme-court-fight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hotvideos24.online\/?p=119248","title":{"rendered":"Appeals court keeps Virginia voter purge program blocked, setting up Supreme Court fight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"fluid\"\r\n     data-ad-layout-key=\"-fb+5w+4e-db+86\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-3711241968723425\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"7910942971\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<p>(CNN) \u2014 A federal appeals court refused to reinstate a Virginia purge program aimed at culling suspected noncitizens from the\u2026<\/p>\n<div id=\"Entry-content\">\n<p><b>(CNN) \u2014 <\/b>A federal appeals court refused to reinstate a Virginia purge program aimed at culling suspected noncitizens from the voter rolls, leaving in place a lower court ruling that found the program likely violated a federal prohibition on \u201csystematic\u201d removals in the 90 days before an election.<\/p>\n<p>The Sunday decision by the 4th US Circuit Court of Appeals sets up a Supreme Court fight over the purge program with early voting already underway in Virginia.\u00a0Republicans all the way up to former President <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/politics\/president-donald-trump-45\">Donald Trump<\/a> have seized on the case \u2014 a consolidation of lawsuits brought by the Biden administration and private groups \u2014\u00a0as they have pushed the narrative that voting by noncitizens poses a major threat to the election. It is in fact a very rare occurrence.<\/p>\n<p>The new order from the 4th\u00a0Circuit noted that Virginia officials are still allowed to prevent noncitizen voting \u201cby canceling registrations on an individualized basis or prosecuting any noncitizen who votes.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>US District Judge Patricia\u00a0Tolliver Giles, a Biden appointee,\u00a0on Friday <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2024\/10\/25\/politics\/virginia-voter-purge-noncitizens\/index.html\">halted the program<\/a> and<strong> <\/strong>ordered election officials to restore the registrations of the roughly 1,600 people who had been removed under the program during the so-called 90-day quiet period. Six hundred of those individuals were removed because they checked a box during a Department of Motor Vehicles interaction declaring them noncitizen and the other 1,000 were removed because of records in government databases that indicated noncitizenship.<\/p>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump railed against the Friday ruling on Truth Social, claiming that a \u201cWeaponized Department of \u2018Injustice,\u2019 and a Judge (appointed by Joe), have ORDERED the Great Commonwealth of Virginia to PUT NON-CITIZEN VOTERS BACK ON THE ROLLS.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>State officials immediately appealed the ruling to the 4th Circuit, and Trump, in his Truth Social post, said the \u201cU.S. Supreme Court will hopefully fix it!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>At the heart of the dispute is whether that approach is the sort of \u201csystematic\u201d purge program Congress sought to freeze with the 90-day provision in the 1993 National Voter Registration Act, because of the tendency of those programs to remove eligible voters as well. Those suing Virginia say that within 36 hours of receiving a list of the purged voters from the state, they were able to confirm that at least 18 were in fact citizens who were eligible to vote.<\/p>\n<p>In court filings with the 4th Circuit on Saturday, the voting rights groups and immigrant activists pointed to evidence that citizens will mistakenly check the noncitizen box on the DMV form because of its confusing design.<\/p>\n<p>Virginia state officials countered that the National Voter Registration Act\u2019s 90-day quiet period doesn\u2019t apply to their purge program because it\u2019s targeted at noncitizens, and they told the 4th Circuit that the judge\u2019s order to reinstate the people to the rolls \u201cwill create confusion and make even-handed administration of the election much more difficult.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The 4th Circuit order was handed down by appellate panel made up of two Obama appointees and a Biden appointee.<\/p>\n<p>The-CNN-Wire<br \/>\u2122 &amp; \u00a9 2024 Cable News Network, Inc., a Warner Bros. 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