RIGHT-WING COURT IGNORES LAW IN ORDER TO DISENFRANCHISE VOTERS

NATIONWIDE (October 30, 2024) – Today, the Supreme Court intervened to allow Republicans to purge 1,600 Virginia voters — including people known to be American citizens — from the voter rolls. The ruling is in clear opposition to federal law, which bars states from removing voters from the voter rolls less than 90 days before the election. Take Back the Court Action Fund released the following statement on behalf of its president, Sarah Lipton-Lubet, in response:

“When the right-wing court sees a law it doesn’t like, it pretends it doesn’t exist. And that’s exactly what happened here: the partisan ideologues on Trump’s Supreme Court pushed aside the clear language of the law to ensure fewer Americans can make their voices heard at the ballot box — all in service of supporting Donald Trump’s bogus narrative about voter fraud. This is the Roberts Court’s pattern: when in doubt, disenfranchise voters.”

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