As election day approaches, courts have been making a series of decisions that bear on how Americans’ votes get counted in the 2024 election cycle.
Virginia, a critical swing state, sought the Supreme Court’s intervention yesterday—just eight days before Election Day—after two lower courts blocked its effort to purge non-citizens from its voter rolls. The Justice Department (DOJ) had sued the commonwealth and won an injunction over its purported violation of the National Voter Registration Act’s prohibition on systematic attempts to clean up voter rolls 90 days before an election.
