Alabama officials sued for allegedly suppressing new citizens' voting rights

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Source: ABC News

September 13, 2024, 7:20 PM


A coalition of voting rights groups on Friday sued the Alabama secretary of state and attorney general over a policy they say illegally targets naturalized citizens to keep them from voting in the upcoming November election.

The lawsuit alleges that a recent policy intended to remove noncitizens from Alabama's voter rolls "undermines the fundamental right to vote" by relying on faulty information that discriminates against naturalized citizens, disenfranchises eligible voters, and wrongly refers cases for criminal prosecution.

"Alabama is targeting its growing immigrant population through a voter purge intended to intimidate and disenfranchise naturalized citizens," the lawsuit said. The lawsuit centers on a policy initiated last month by Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen, whose office began the process of removing 3,251 people from the state's voter rolls because they had previously been issued noncitizen identification numbers.

His office also referred the list of registered voters to Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall for potential criminal prosecution on the grounds that federal law prohibits noncitizens from voting in national elections.

Read more: https://abcnews.go.com/US/alabama-officials-sued-allegedly-suppressing-new-citizens-voting/story?id=113671195

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When Roberts got rid of "pre-clearance" for certain states (Voting Rights Act Sect. 4(b), which in turn, mooted Sect. 5), that generated all of this draconian voter-suppression stuff, and it has been going for the past 11 years now.

[Martin68]

1. Hope they win.

[mahina]

2. This is shameful and really disgraceful .

Thank goodness for the folks standing up to them. Ugh, Alabama.

[slightlv]

3. We have to have Congress pass something that

more heavily "enshrines" the right of every citizen to vote. We HAVE to get another Voting Rights Bill passed, or nothing will change with the R's. We'll always have to be on the lookout for their next bag of tricks to steal an election. Enough! What the Roberts court did was unfaithful to the Constitution and *should* be declared null and void. But being the highest court in the land, that seems impossible to do... to hold any of them to account. THAT has to change as well!

[BumRushDaShow]

4. There are 2 that were ready to go

but because of the 60-vote threshold (filibuster) in the Senate, they couldn't get past that. Then we lost the House after the 2022 election that pretty much killed it although I know they have been still trying.

H.R.4 - John R. Lewis Voting Rights Advancement Act of 2021

H.R.1 - For the People Act of 2021

[slightlv]

5. Yeah, that filibuster is one of the first things that have to go!