The Supreme Court's conservative majority has granted an emergency appeal from Virginia's Republican administration to resume its purge of voter registrations aimed at preventing non-U.S. citizens from voting. This decision, made over the dissents of the three liberal justices, comes after a federal judge found that the state had illegally purged over 1,600 voter registrations in the past two months.
Former President Donald Trump and other Republicans have raised concerns about immigrants voting illegally, with Trump calling the previous ruling a 'totally unacceptable travesty' on social media. The Justice Department and private groups sued the state, arguing that the purge violated federal election law.
