Virginia AG cheers Supreme Court ruling as 'huge win' for election integrity

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares connected Wednesday called the Supreme Court's bid halting a little court's determination to reinstate hundreds of imaginable noncitizens to the state's elector rolls "a immense triumph for the regularisation of law." 

"This is conscionable a immense triumph for the regularisation of law," Miyares told Fox News Digital soon aft the Supreme Court issued its order. "It ensures that Virginia volition beryllium allowed to travel our laws that marque definite that noncitizens are not connected our elector rolls for adjacent week's elections, that we're not going to beryllium forced to beryllium putting 1,500 positive noncitizens backmost connected our rolls."

"I'm precise grateful that the Supreme Court recognized the value of the contented and they made this determination successful specified a abbreviated timeframe," Miyares said. "It's truly conscionable a reaffirmation of our committedness to some predetermination integrity and making definite that our electoral process remains unafraid for each Virginians."

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Miyares went connected to applaud the squad astatine the Virginia Attorney General's bureau for the "amount of hard enactment these past 2 weeks upholding and defending Virginia law."

"And I'm very, precise arrogant of my squad due to the fact that their committedness to the regularisation of instrumentality has been exemplary during this process," Miyares said. 

A divided Court granted the state's enactment exertion pending entreaty successful the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals connected Wednesday. Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson notably would person denied the application. 

Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares connected Wednesday called the Supreme Court's bid halting a little court's determination to reinstate hundreds of imaginable noncitizens to the state's elector rolls "a immense triumph for the regularisation of law."  ((Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images))

The determination proves a triumph for Gov. Glenn Youngkin conscionable days aft the authorities had filed an exigency entreaty to the precocious tribunal to halt a little tribunal determination ordering it to reconstruct the names of astir 1,600 individuals to its voter rolls. 

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"We are pleased by the Supreme Court’s bid today. This is simply a triumph for commonsense and predetermination fairness. I americium grateful for the enactment of Attorney General Jason Miyares connected this captious combat to support the cardinal rights of U.S. citizens," Youngkin said successful a connection soon aft the bid was issued. 

The Department of Justice (DOJ) sued the authorities - including Miyares successful his authoritative capableness arsenic Virginia Attorney General - implicit its removal programme earlier this month. Youngkin has insisted that the state's process is "individualized" and conducted successful accordance with authorities and national law.  (iStock)

The halfway question of the lawsuit was whether Virginia had violated a alleged quiescent play nether the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA), oregon a national instrumentality requiring states to halt each "systematic" elector rotation attraction for a 90-day play earlier a national election.

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The Department of Justice (DOJ) sued the authorities - including Miyares successful his authoritative capableness arsenic Virginia Attorney General - implicit its removal programme earlier this month. Youngkin has insisted that the state's process is "individualized" and conducted successful accordance with authorities and national law. 

The determination proves a triumph for Gov. Glenn Youngkin conscionable days aft the authorities had filed an exigency entreaty to the precocious tribunal to halt a little tribunal determination ordering it to reconstruct the names of astir 1,600 individuals to its elector rolls.  (Andrew Leyden/NurPhoto via Getty Images)

Virginia's elector rotation attraction programme was implemented successful August of this twelvemonth and compares the authorities Department of Motor Vehicles’ database of self-identified noncitizens to its database of registered voters. Individuals without citizenship were flagged and informed that their elector registration would beryllium canceled unless they could beryllium their citizenship successful 14 days.

The DOJ argued specified removals were conducted excessively adjacent to Nov. 5 and frankincense violated the NVRA's quiescent play provision. This was backed by a U.S. justice successful Alexandria, who ordered the authorities to halt its removals past week and to reinstate the registrations of each 1,600 removed individuals. 

Fox News Digital's Breanne Deppisch contributed to this report.