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ALBANY, New York — New York’s top court has struck down a law that would have let noncitizens vote in New York City elections, with the court’s progressive majority overwhelmingly siding with ...
New York’s highest court on Thursday blocked ... in the nation to grant municipal voting rights to noncitizens after the the City Council passed the law in late 2021. The measure, however ...
The 6-1 ruling blocks a New York ... noncitizens were illegally voting in large numbers, and eight states passed measures banning noncitizen voting. New York City isn't the first governmental body ...
New York’s top court on Thursday struck down a city law as unconstitutional that would’ve expanded the right to vote in local elections to hundreds of thousands of noncitizen residents.
New York City never actually implemented its 2022 law ... court, called the Court of Appeals. “Efforts by radical Democrats on the New York City Council to permit noncitizen voting have been ...
the court found that the New York State Constitution limits voting to citizens. Associate Judge Jenny Rivera, in a lone dissent, also would find the New York City law null and void, but for a ...
ALBANY, New York — New York’s top ... two lower courts in recent years. “As the court had held from the very beginning, the law is clear that voting is a sacred right that is for United ...
In January 2022, New York City became the first major city in the nation to grant municipal voting rights ... progressive New York Court of Appeals struck down the law by a 6-1 margin, concluding ...
(The Center Square) — A controversial New York ... voting to citizens." The high court's lone dissenter, Associate Judge Jenny Rivera, argued that the state's home rule law allows cities to ...
20—ALBANY — New York City's plan to let noncitizen ... Court of Appeals found that the law violated terms of the state constitution, specifically Article II Section 1, which defines voting ...