Virginia does not have to restore the registrations of 1,600 voters, some of whom appear to have been wrongly removed, ahead of next week’s election, the US supreme court said on Wednesday.

The court made the decision on its emergency docket and did not give a rationale for its decision, which is customary for rulings on an expedited basis. All three liberal justices on the court – Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson – said they would not have halted a lower-court ruling earlier in October ordering the state to restore the voter registrations.

The legal dispute centers on a 7 August executive order by the Virginia governor, Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, directing the state to run its voter registration rolls against DMV data on a daily basis to check for non-citizens. The justice department and civil rights groups sued, saying that the state was violating a federal law that prohibits systematic removals of voters within 90 days of a federal election.

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    The Supreme Court just straight up violated Federal Law. I’m floored right now. Just absolutely floored. I thought this was SO clear-cut, that even THIS court could not possibly justify a ruling like this. What…what do we even do at this point?

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      Soap Box Ballot Box Ammo Box

      or something along those lines.

      They’re taking the ballot box.

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    SCOTUS is irredeemably corrupt. Do you want a civil war? Because this is how you get a civil war.

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    Thankfully Virginia has same day voter registration, so at least some of them will be able to re-register on the spot. I’m sure some will be impacted by not having identification, etc, but this is better than many states that don’t allow same day registration when voting.

    Still, fuck those asshats. Is so telling when you see people trying to take away one’s chance to have their voice heard.

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      You don’t need ID to register to vote in Virginia. You just need to fill out a form.

      You do need ID to actually vote, though. So bring it to the poll regardless.

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      Thankfully Virginia has same day voter registration, so at least some of them will be able to re-register on the spot.

      Will would-be voters be TOLD that or will they just be turned away because they are told they aren’t registered to vote.

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        It would hopefully go like this - “It doesn’t look like you’re registered, let’s do that now” but I’m not 100% sure.

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    That is… unadulterated plain and simple clear as day election interference. If I didn’t know better I’d say our whole system is in collapse.

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    Virginia governor Glenn Youngkin ® signs executive order in August to cross check voters against citizenship, violating federal law. Later in October, this executive order is used as rationale for supreme Court emergency docket which removes voter registration for several thousand people in Virginia.

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    We need to overhaul and stack this “supreme” court. After additional justices are added, special hearings should be convened to address the impartiality and graft of specific members of the court.

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      *obviously fucked up at something they’re not even allowed to attempt in the first place under the plain text of federal law, but whatever.