Updated on: October 30, 2024 / 1:06 PM EDT / CBS News
Washington — The Supreme Court on Wednesday allowed Virginia to move forward with its removal of roughly 1,600 alleged noncitizens from its voter rolls just days before the 2024 election.
The high court granted a request from state officials to pause a lower court order that blocked Virginia from continuing its voter removal program that was launched in August, exactly 90 days before Election Day. A provision of the National Voter Registration Act requires states to complete programs aimed at purging ineligible voters from registration lists up to 90 days before federal elections.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson said they would have denied the request from Virginia officials.
A Justice Department spokesperson said in a statement that “the department brought this suit to ensure that every eligible American citizen can vote in our elections. We disagree with the Supreme Court’s order.”
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, cheered the decision as a “victory for commonsense and election fairness.”
Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson said they would have denied the request from Virginia officials.
A Justice Department spokesperson said in a statement that “the department brought this suit to ensure that every eligible American citizen can vote in our elections. We disagree with the Supreme Court’s order.”
Virginia Gov. Glenn Youngkin, a Republican, cheered the decision as a “victory for commonsense and election fairness.”
George Logan is a man of integrity, his opponent is made of the same cloth of Obama, of Murphy, of the left wing radicals of today and the past. She is bent on spending our money until we are broke. Do you want that? Her representing the CT 4th District has been an outright disaster. Her record is hand and hand with the radical elite. George Logan will bring back sanity to CT and the U.S. Vote George Logan, he is for Connecticut, Hayes, his opponent is out for your wallet. Stop her before she picks your pocket. She dines and wines on your dime, while you struggle to support you family.
With the pressure to gather campaign contributions paramount in the federal election system, candidates naturally move out of their districts to solicit cash. In August, at the height of the summer, that kind of urgency brought Hayes and Logan to the summer playgrounds of the well-heeled segments of their constituencies and party supporters.
For Democrats like Hayes, that was Martha’s Vineyard, the island seven miles off the coast of Cape Cod. There, from Aug. 11th to the 13th, Hayes said she participated in multiple fundraisers and events sponsored by Connecticut residents and members of Congress, for which she paid about $4,000 in two billings from the Faraway boutique hotel. The federal reports indicate she spent $621 for a fundraising event in an Edgartown restaurant called 19 Raw Oyster Bar.
Time and time again politicians create more problems than they solve. It’s time for something different. It’s time for sensible, experienced, reliable leadership.
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While our towns were underwater, Jahana Hayes was out living it up – rubbing elbows with elites and partying in Chicago with the insiders. She used to be one of us. Now? She’s just another out-of-touch DC politician. Connecticut deserves better. #CT5 #FlipThe5th #loganforcongress #vote
We have seen the enemy. During and subsequent to the Trump MSG rally, MSNBC broadcast a 1939 MSG rally at MSG side by side with Trump supporters.The object was to manifest Trump supporters as Nazis. One problem, Trump supporters are diverse across the spectrum – Whites, Latinos, Blacks, Asians, LBGTQIA and others.
Trump has been campaigning for about eighteen months. Remember that he had to win the Republican primary, a valiant effort, indeed; don’t forget the the drag out fight with Niki Haley. But Kamala didn’t have a primary because Obama. Pelosi and Schumer executed a putsch. Poor Joe didn’t see that coming. Effectively, Kamala has only been campaigning since August. She is weak, her campaign is filled with hot air.
Trump is 79, Harris is going to be turning 60. We know that Trump has the vigor to be the next president of the United States. But we don’t know if Kamala is up to the task. Who do you want to steer the Ship of State? An unknown or a veteran who has done it before.
And by the way, Kamala’s deck hands are Obama and crew, the same dudes who have divided the country like we have never seen before. Don’t believe what Harris says, when she says we will bring this country together. That is just plain old bullshit. She (Obama) is looking for an outright civil war. Kamala is a Kamaleon of the highest rank.
Vote Trump next Tuesday. Get your friends, relatives and neighbors to do the same. He will Drain the Swamp, Harris will drain your wallet. Thank you from President Trump, the next President of the United States.
Almost every major poll has the 2024 presidential race as a toss-up with just over a week until Election Day — and that appears to be good news for former President Donald Trump’s chances of returning to the White House.
There are three major reasons:
Trump has obliterated Harris’ polling lead.
National polls have never shown him so close ahead of Election Day.
He’s polling ahead by the slimmest margins in every swing state.
Of course, dead-heat polling suggests that the election could still go either way. But these factors point to Trump regaining momentum as Americans turn out in record numbers for early voting, fill out their mail-in ballots and prepare to line up at the polls on Election Day.
5The Trump-Vance campaign has grown increasingly optimistic about its chances of victory. Getty Images
Even in the polls where Trump is lagging behind Vice President Kamala Harris, there appears to be a clear trend of him gaining steam in the election homestretch while Harris’ numbers are falling.Head-to-head, Harris slightly currently edges Trump out 50% to 49% among likely voters. They split evenly in battleground states at 50% apiece, according to a Sunday CBS News/YouGov poll, which had a margin of error of plus or minus 2.6 percentage points.
But critically, that marks a 1-point gain for Trump in the battleground states from two weeks ago, or an erosion of Harris’ advantage over Trump.
Harris led by up to 4 percentage points in national polls after the candidates’ only debate Sept. 10.
At the start of October, Harris had a two-point edge over Trump in the RealClearPolitics aggregate of multi-candidate national polling. Now Trump is in the lead with 0.1 percentage points — well within the margin of error.
The mere fact that Trump is leading even in the aggregate of national polling is remarkable given that Republicans haven’t won the popular vote in two decades.
Among the most highly regarded surveys, the New York Times/Siena College poll found Trump dispatching Harris 47% to 46% among likely voters.
Battleground states swing toward Trump
Of course the popular vote won’t put either Harris on Trump in the Oval Office — it’s the seven major battleground states that will.
And here, too, Trump has the slimmest advantage.
Presently, Trump is up on RCP’s map of the Electoral College — which makes a call based on the most accurate polling on every battleground state. Right now, he’s on track to win the Electoral College 312 to 226. For context, he won by 304 to Clinton’s 227 in 2016. Biden won 306 to Trump’s 232.
Trump is ahead in RCP’s aggregate of of polls in all seven battleground states — although barely in some cases. In Pennsylvania, he is up 0.6, Wisconsin 0.2, Michigan 0.2, Arizona 1.5, Nevada 0.7, Georgia 2.2 and North Carolina 0.8.
Can you believe that illegal aliens are voting in Virginia? They were given the right to vote even though they said that they are illegal. Yet a liberal Democrat Judge has stopped the Commonwealth of Virginia from enforcing the law. These are the judges we must cull from judicial activism.
Federal appeals court backs judge restoring purged voters in Virginia. Imagine, three liberal Democrat judges vote with the court
Oct. 27 (UPI) — A federal appeals court on Sunday refused to throw out a lower court order that ordered recently purged voters restored in Virginia, setting up a possible U.S. Supreme Court appeal.
Fourth Circuit Judges Albert Diaz, Toby Heyten and Stephanie Thacker, all Democrats, said they are “unpersuaded” by lawyers for Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin seeking to block an injunction obtained by U.S. Justice Department and civil rights groups. On Friday, U.S. District Judge Patricia Giles ruled the the move would be too disruptive to administer with just over a week remaining before Election Day.
About 1,600 people were removed from voter rolls in an Aug. 7 executive order from Youngkin, according to court filings.
The appeals judges said neither the court nor the parties knew whether the people removed from the rolls “were in fact non-citizens” with at least some “eligible voters” had their registration canceled and didn’t know this was done.
Some may have re-registered.
It is illegal for non-citizens to cast ballots.
The three-judge panel’s order stressed that Virginia officials “remain able to prevent noncitizens from voting by canceling registrations on an individualized basis or prosecuting any noncitizen who votes.”
The lower court said the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 is violated amid so-called “quiet period” before elections. The state uses a system Virginia to match citizenship data from the Department of Motor Vehicles with voter rolls.
Murphy is in the fight of his life. This Senator from Connecticut is a wild animal that must be sent back to the wild.He is an advocate of $10 per gallon gas, against fracking, against hydrocarbons, against nuclear power. Murphy calls Trump voters racists.
Sen. Chris Murphy said ‘the border never closes.’ What does that mean?
Republican lawmakers who oppose a new bipartisan Senate immigration bill are using the words of one of the bill’s sponsors to bolster their opposition.
During a Feb. 6 news conference, Sen. Rick Scott, R-Fla., held up an X post, blown up on a poster board, written by Sen. Chris Murphy, D-Conn.
“You can see this with Chris Murphy’s tweet,” Scott said, pointing to the board for the cameras. One line was highlighted: “The border never closes.”
“Chris Murphy was very candid,” Texas Sen. Ted Cruz said during the same press conference. “You know, they say in Washington a gaffe is when a politician accidentally tells the truth. Well there you go, Chris Murphy: ‘the border never closes’ the Democrats’ opening position is, ‘We will not close the border.’”
Republican Matthew Corey realizes he faces an uphill battle against a well-funded, two-term incumbent Democrat in a blue state.
But that has not stopped the East Hartford restaurant owner from pushing forward in his second attempt to unseat U.S. Sen. Chris Murphy in the Nov. 5 election. Corey lost to Murphy by 20 percentage points in 2018, but he believes the outcome will be different this year.With little money, Corey has struggled to gain attention from the electorate, staying off the airwaves until last week when he released two radio ads and two television commercials.
Meanwhile, Murphy’s commercials have been playing constantly on television news programs and interview shows like “The View” on ABC television, along with ESPN, Bravo and HGTV, among others. He also has a long history of winning races in Connecticut, including two statewide races for the Senate.
But Corey says he believes that Republican Donald J. Trump will win nationally for president and will perform better in Connecticut than expected.