On Wednesday, the Supreme Court voted 6-3 to let Virginia remove some 1,600 self-identified noncitizens from its voter rolls, as it has for years under a law signed by Democratic Gov. Tim Kaine back in 2005 — and supposedly objective media exploded.
The AP: “Supreme Court’s conservative justices leave in place Virginia’s purge of voter registrations.”
The New York Times headline: “Supreme Court Allows Virginia to Purge Possibly Ineligible Voters for Now.”
Possibly?
The process just uses what these “voters” have told the state DMV.
Meanwhile, the AP head echoes the dark conspiracy thinking about a lawless righty high-court majority; it’d be as fair to question what the three justices who demurred were smoking.
And to ask why Democratic election superlawyer Marc Elias went to court to protect noncitizen voting.
Mind you, this process disenfranchises no one: Virginia lets people register to vote in-person through Election Day and immediately submit a provisional ballot, so if you have been wrongly purged, you can sort it out later.
The left’s gone so hysterical that it now sees voting-security measures that were utterly uncontroversial just two decades back to be right-wing “voter suppression.”