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Coalition seeks Supreme Court intervention in Virginia voter registration case

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Attorney General Liz Murrill | Ballotpedia

Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill has joined a coalition of attorneys general from 26 states in filing an amicus brief with the U.S. Supreme Court. The brief urges the court to allow Virginia to remove non-citizens from its voter rolls.

"Louisiana stands with Virginia! It’s appalling that the federal government would sue Virginia when these people never had the right to vote in our country in the first place. We must protect the integrity of our sacred elections," stated Attorney General Liz Murrill.

The coalition argues that a preliminary injunction preventing Virginia from removing self-identified non-citizens undermines state authority over voter qualifications. According to them, Virginia's law includes mechanisms for protecting election integrity while ensuring only U.S. citizens remain on voter rolls.

"The upcoming election is hotly contested and has caused division around the country. Perhaps the division would be lower if the federal government were not interfering with the election via last-minute attacks on state efforts to police voter qualifications," reads part of the amicus brief.

A recent decision by the Eastern District of Virginia Court temporarily halted Virginia's efforts, which, according to the brief, could lead Congress to force a state into allowing non-citizens to vote against its objections.

It further argues that this action turns Virginia's statute into a federal mandate requiring states to permit non-citizen voting within 90 days of an election if discovered on rolls, contravening both state and federal laws.

"Non-citizens are not eligible voters. They were not eligible voters before Congress passed the National Voter Registration Act, they were not eligible when Congress passed the NVRA, and they are not eligible today," asserts another section of the amicus brief.

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