SCOTUS allows Virginia voter purge to continue through 2024 election, conservative majority declines to explain why

Glenn Youngkin, on the left and John Roberts, on the right, appear inset against an image of the U.S. Supreme Court building.

Inset Left: FILE – Gov. Glenn Youngkin, R-VA., gestures before speaking during the first day of the Republican National Convention, Monday, July 15, 2024, in Milwaukee (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File). Inset Right: FILE – Chief Justice of the United States John Roberts joins other members of the Supreme Court as they pose for a new group portrait, at the Supreme Court building in Washington, Oct. 7, 2022 (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File). Background: Background: FILE — The Supreme Court of the United States is seen in Washington, March 26, 2024 (AP Photo/Amanda Andrade-Rhoades, File).

The U.S. Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed Virginia to continue purging voter rolls by granting an emergency stay request — unpausing a pause issued and affirmed by two lower courts.

Late last week, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia blocked the commonwealth from continued voter roll purges by issuing a preliminary injunction. Over the weekend, the Fourth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the injunction.

On Monday, Virginia asked Chief Justice John Roberts to allow the purges to continue under the purview of Executive Order 35. Under that directive, which interprets a 2006 law, election officials had begun removing “individuals who are unable to verify that they are [U.S.] citizens to the Department of Motor Vehicles” from the state’s lists of voters eligible to participate in the upcoming election.

On Tuesday, the U.S. Department of Justice and civil rights groups pleaded with the justices to keep the executive order enjoined. Numerous other briefs were filed for and against the purge and the pause.

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