Appeals court rules against GOP in case challenging 225K voter registrations in North Carolina
A federal appeals court blocked a GOP effort to challenge 225,000 voter registrations in North Carolina that they claimed were made without an ID requirement. The Republican National Committee (RNC) and North Carolina Republican Party (NCGOP) filed a lawsuit against the North Carolina State Board of Elections claiming voters were registered using a registration form that did not require identification such as an ID or Social Security number. The suit claimed that allowing people on voter rolls without identification violated the Help America Vote Act. The case was sent to a federal court by the State Board of Elections, but on Oct. 17, Chief District Judge Richard Myers ruled that parts of the case be moved back to the state court. But in a Tuesday ruling, the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed his decision — meaning the case will remain in federal court where Myers will determine how it proceeds. DEMS NEED TO RAMP UP EARLY VOTING EFFORTS TO MATCH GOP MOMENTUM IN NORTH CAROLINA: ANALYST The reversal serves as a blow for the Republican plaintiffs who supported Myers’ efforts to return the case to the state court. In the ruling, Circuit Judge Nicole Berner said that sending the case back to the state court was “improper.” GOP CHALLENGES TO OVERSEAS BALLOTING RULES STYMIED IN TWO KEY BATTLEGROUND STATES “The State Board refused to perform Plaintiffs’ requested act—striking certain registered voters from North Carolina’s voter rolls—on the ground that doing so within 90 days of a federal election would violate provisions of Title I of the Civil Rights Act of 1964,” Berner wrote. “We are not convinced that defendants conceded to a violation of HAVA, but we need not reach that issue. Defendants argue that HAVA Subsection (a)(2)(A) actually prohibits them from removing the voters in question rather than requiring them to do so,” the decision read.
Oklahoma schools chief bills Kamala Harris $474M for education costs, citing illegal immigration
Oklahoma’s top elected education official sent a “demand letter” to Vice President Kamala Harris that essentially served as an invoice for what the illegal immigration crisis under her tenure overseeing the border has cost Sooner State schools. “As the statewide elected Superintendent of Public Instruction of the State of Oklahoma and the Executive Officer of the Oklahoma State Department of Education (OSDE), it is my duty to ensure that the resources allocated to our public schools are counted for and used in the most effective manner possible for the benefit of Oklahoma students’ education,” Ryan Walters wrote to Harris. In August, Walters tasked the department to work with school districts to calculate the financial impact borne by taxpayers on illegal immigrant minors. That analysis resulted in an estimate of $474.9 million, which he demanded of Harris in the letter. “This demand amount is, by necessity, an estimate because only your administration knows the true number of illegal immigrants crossing this nation’s borders and the actual costs of illegal immigration,” he said, calling for Harris to conduct a potentially more accurate accounting of the costs incurred by Oklahoma schools. OK SCHOOLS CHIEF DEDICATES MILLIONS TO PUT ‘A BIBLE IN EVERY SCHOOL’ “Under your supervision, the costs in education due to illegal immigration have risen astronomically. Your failed oversight and efforts are a direct cause of the current crises Oklahoma and other states now face. Oklahoma taxpayers, schools, teachers, and parents should not bear the burden of your failings. They deserve better,” Walters said. In a Tuesday interview, Walters said the border crisis is “crippling” Oklahoma schools, and that paying for these minors’ education is the “largest unfunded mandate in the country.” He said Oklahoma has been the first state to both calculate the education costs of the border crisis and to actually bill the Biden-Harris administration for the fiscal disparity. In August, Texas Gov. Greg Abbott issued an executive order directing hospitals to collect cost information in a similar fashion, for patients “not lawfully present in the United States.” LANDMARK BILL TARGETS HIDDEN FOREIGN FUNDS IN SCHOOLS AS OFFICIALS WARN OF CCP INFLUENCE “Since she’s been the border czar, she’s failed our country,” Walters said. “Open borders has had an impact on every aspect of society, but it has overrun our schools, decimated our families. And it is absolutely time to hold them accountable for that.” Walters said he invites other states to follow suit and calculate the real costs of illegal immigration, to show the true effects of the crisis on the country. Harris’ office did not respond to a request for comment. When asked if he expects a response or a remittance, Walters said the administration has long been “unresponsive to the needs of all Americans.” CLICK HERE TO GET THE FOX NEWS APP “I know that they’ve magically pretended like they’ve cared about it here in the last 60 days of their campaign. But the reality is, as you’ve seen story after story, data point after data point, and they’ve ignored them,” he said.
Judge rejects GOP bid to restrict overseas ballots in Pennsylvania
A U.S. judge in Pennsylvania on Tuesday rejected a Republican-led lawsuit aimed at bolstering the vetting process for overseas voters – an effort that had sparked sharp criticism and concerns that it could disenfranchise thousands of Keystone State voters, including U.S. service members and their families. The lawsuit was filed late last month by six out of eight House Republicans from Pennsylvania’s congressional delegation. The group had argued that the state law made it possible for overseas residents to register and vote in elections without proper identification. Voters can “receive a ballot by email and then vote a ballot without providing identification at any step in the process,” the Republican plaintiffs alleged. FLURRY OF PRE-ELECTION LEGAL CASES IS NOW ‘STANDARDIZED’ STRATEGY, EXPERTS SAY U.S. District Judge Christopher Conner dismissed the suit Tuesday as a “nonstarter,” noting that the plaintiffs had waited too long to file their lawsuit, which seeks to update a law that has been on the books for 12 years. He also cited procedural issues with the case, noting they failed to produce evidence or articulate a “viable course of action.” “An injunction at this late hour would upend the Commonwealth’s carefully laid election administration procedures to the detriment of untold thousands of voters, to say nothing of the state and county administrators who would be expected to implement these new procedures on top of their current duties,” Conner said. TRUMP CAMPAIGN DEPLOYS IN PENNSYLVANIA’S LARGEST SWING COUNTY The push comes as Republicans in at least three swing states have sought to crack down on overseas voting in the final sprint to Election Day. The RNC and state-level groups in Michigan and North Carolina have also filed lawsuits in recent weeks seeking additional restrictions on a vetting and verification process they argue is devoid of proper safeguards. The lawsuits sparked immediate protest from a group of House Democrats and former military members, who argued that the remedy sought by the plaintiffs was overly restrictive and risked disenfranchising thousands of U.S. service members stationed abroad. According to the Democratic National Committee (DNC), an estimated 1.6 million U.S. voters living overseas are eligible to vote in one of seven swing states: Arizona, Georgia, Michigan, Nevada, North Carolina, Pennsylvania or Wisconsin. The states, which carry a combined total of 93 Electoral College votes, are considered to be crucial in deciding the next president in a virtual dead heat race between former President Trump and Vice President Kamala Harris. Pennsylvania has 19 on its own, giving it outsize importance in the election. Earlier this month, a lawyer testified to the court that over 26,000 overseas ballots had already been cast in Pennsylvania. It’s unclear how many of those would be impacted by a court decision. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
Harris ad suggests Trump will send Asians back to interment camps
The Harris-Walz campaign rolled out a new TV and digital ad on Saturday invoking the internment of Japanese Americans during World War II and other acts of anti-Asian hate, comparing them to former President Donald Trump. In the 30-second ad, titled “Our America,” the Harris campaign accuses Trump of having an “outdated vision of America” that “has no place” for Asian Americans. The ad features symbols of American freedom, including the Constitution, purportedly “under attack by Trump and his extremist allies,” the Harris campaign said in a news release. TRUMP CAMPAIGN’S CLOSING MESSAGE TO VOTERS: ‘HARRIS BROKE IT, TRUMP WILL FIX IT’ The ad “alludes to moments when Asian Americans were denied their civil rights – such as the mass incarceration of Japanese-Americans during World War II and the 1982 murder of Vincent Chin in Detroit,” the campaign said. “We have a choice between someone who wants unchecked power and has an outdated vision of America that has no place for us… Or a president who will respect all Americans, who will never view us as ‘others,’” the narrator says. “Protect our democracy and our communities. Vote.” The ad features men, women and children of Asian descent, including a purported Iraq War veteran giving a salute. The video is appearing on television in battleground states as well as across an array of digital channels like Meta, Snap, YouTube and radio, the Harris-Walz campaign says. POLLSTER DISSECTS TRUMP’S LATEST AD MOCKING KAMALA HARRIS AS ONE OF HIS ‘MOST SIGNIFICANT’ In 1942, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, a Democrat, sent around 117,000 people of Japanese descent to internment camps, the majority of whom were American citizens. Roosevelt issued an executive order on Feb. 19 of that year, coming two months after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. When the internees were taken to the camps, they could bring only what they could carry. Nine of the camps were shut down by the end of 1945 following a Supreme Court decision, with the final camp closing in March 1946. Chin, 27, was an American draftsman of Chinese descent who was fatally assaulted in San Francisco in a racially motivated assault by two White men following a fight at a strip club. Federal authorities said two autoworkers blamed Chin for layoffs at car factories due to Japanese imports. After Chin left the club, the two men tracked him down at a fast-food eatery and attacked him, authorities said. Chin later died at a hospital. There was a sharp increase nationwide in anti-Asian hate crimes with the onset of the pandemic and the ad seeks to link these attacks to Trump with #StopAsianHate posters being broadcast behind a group of children. “The choice for Asian American voters in this election couldn’t be clearer. While Trump surrounds himself with loyalists to emulate the dictators he admires and intends to wield unchecked power to serve himself, Vice President Kamala Harris has only ever had one client: the people,” Andrew Peng, the Harris-Walz 2024 Asian-American, Native Hawaiian, and Pacific Islander spokesperson said in the release. The new ad comes as Harris ramps up her attacks on the former president, calling him “increasingly unhinged and unstable” as well as a “fascist” last week.
Hundreds illegally got Texas teacher licenses through cheating ring, Harris County prosecutors say
Five people were charged in connection with the scheme. Investigators say aspiring teachers would pay for help cheating in the certification test.
Trump vows to create compensation fund for victims of illegal immigrant crime
Former President Donald Trump announced on Tuesday that if elected, his administration will create a compensation fund to provide restitution for the victims of migrant crime, funded by U.S. government-seized assets of criminal gangs and drug cartels. Trump held an event on Tuesday morning from Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Florida, hosting mothers of victims of illegal immigrant crime. “Today, I’m announcing that for the first time, under my administration, we will be seizing the assets of the criminal gangs and drug cartels, and we will use those assets to create a compensation fund to provide restitution for the victims of migrant crime,” Trump said Tuesday. “And the government will help in the restitution. But something has to be done, and we’re going to get it done.” TRUMP MEETS WITH LATINO LEADERS AFTER NEW POLL SHOWS HIM 11 POINTS AHEAD OF HARRIS IN KEY VOTING BLOC Trump blasted Vice President Kamala Harris for her role in the growing migrant crisis at the U.S. southern border, saying she has “obliterated our borders.” Trump reminded those present that President Biden appointed Harris as his “border czar.” “She doesn’t want to use that term, but, let’s say, we’ll just use different terms — she was responsible for the borders. Totally responsible,” Trump said. “She never made one call to Border Patrol.” The National Border Patrol Council endorsed Trump earlier this month, Trump said, noting they said he was “the best president we’ve ever had and the best president by far on the border.” “They said she was easily the worst person ever to work with them on the border,” Trump said. “Most incompetent — the least caring. Think of it, not one call in almost four years was made to the Border Patrol…they’re great people, men and women…they want to do their jobs. She didn’t call them once.” TRUMP ANNOUNCES ‘OPERATION AURORA’ TO TARGET ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT GANG MEMBERS IN COLORADO Trump then played a new video featuring the mother of Jocelyn Nungaray, the 12-year-old girl who was allegedly murdered by two illegal migrants. Trump described her as “one mother whose life Kamala has utterly destroyed.” The emotional video featured Alexis Nungaray recalling her last moments with her daughter and the painful discovery that she had been murdered by two men who were in the U.S. illegally. The men, who were reportedly affiliated with a gang known for brutal violence, had been apprehended but then released by U.S. Border Patrol. “Kamala Harris was in charge of immigration and our borders,” Nungaray said in the video. “If we had better border policies and not open borders and not these catch and release policies, I truly believe this all could have been prevented.” Nungaray added, “Kamala Harris had one job, and she not only failed me, she failed my daughter.” Nungaray recalled Trump first reaching out to her, saying he gave her his “sincerest condolences, not as a former president, but as a father, someone who cares.” “I believe Donald Trump needs to be back in office,” she says in the video. “I can at least know that my next child will be safe in this country.” Trump also hosted Tammy Nobles, the mother of Kayla Hamilton, who was allegedly murdered by an illegal immigrant and MS-13 member from El Salvador. “On issue after issue, she broke it. They broke it together. But for purposes of this election, she broke it. Can’t let her go,” Trump said. “And I’m going to fix it, and I’m going to fix it very fast.” Trump said with regard to the illegal immigrants that will be “taken out of the country” under his “mass deportation” operation, if an illegal individual returns to the U.S., there will be “laws that will be immediately enacted where they serve ten years in prison, they won’t come back.” “And if that’s not long enough, we’ll have to do something else,” he said. “But we don’t want them back. They’re not going to come back.” Trump also said that, if elected, he will seek the death penalty for any migrant who comes into the country and kills an American citizen or a law enforcement officer. Trump’s event was held Tuesday during the late morning before he travels to Pennsylvania for a roundtable and a rally. Harris is making a speech Tuesday night at the Ellipse in Washington, D.C., and plans to deliver her closing message to voters.
Trump rips House Republican who voted to impeach him in message endorsing his rival
Republican presidential nominee former President Donald Trump is exacting revenge on a House GOP lawmaker who voted to impeach him nearly four years ago. Rep. Dan Newhouse, R-Wash., is one of only two House Republicans left in Congress out of the original 10 who defied their party and voted with Democrats after the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the U.S. Capitol. “Newhouse has to go! He wished he didn’t do what he did, but it’s too late,” Trump wrote on his Truth Social platform Tuesday morning, just a week before Election Day. CLUB FOR GROWTH POURS $5M INTO TIGHT HOUSE RACES AS GOP BRACES FOR TOUGH ELECTION Trump also emphasized his support for Newhouse’s rival. “Jerrod Sessler is a fantastic Candidate and will be a GREAT Congressman for Washington State’s 4th Congressional District.” “He is running against a Weak and Pathetic RINO named Newhouse, who voted to, for no reason, Impeach me,” Trump wrote. Sessler, a Navy veteran, is challenging Newhouse for Washington’s 4th Congressional District. In addition to Trump, he is also backed by the ultra-conservative House Freedom Caucus. SPEAKER JOHNSON RIPS ‘LACK OF LEADERSHIP’ IN BIDEN ADMIN’S HELENE RESPONSE: ‘ALARMED AND DISAPPOINTED’ Newhouse is seeking a sixth term representing what is the reddest district in Washington state, according to the nonpartisan Cook Political Report. He came second to Sessler in the state’s primary elections over the summer. Washington’s primaries do not operate on a party-based system – instead, the top-two candidates in the race advance to the general election. Newhouse told the Yakima Herald-Republic last week that he did not believe his vote to impeach Trump would prevent him from working well with the ex-president if he wins the White House again. FORMER REPUBLICAN US SENATOR ENDORSES KAMALA HARRIS, SAYS ELECTION OFFERS ‘STARK CHOICE’ “I worked very closely and successfully with President Trump and his first administration and I feel very confident that I can do that again,” he said. He acknowledged the impeachment vote as “the elephant in the room” but said, “We really don’t think that would be a factor.” Newhouse won re-election in 2022 against a Democratic challenger by a rough margin of 68% to 32%. His campaign did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment. Trump originally endorsed Sessler and Republican Tiffany Smiley in the district’s primary earlier this year in a bid to force Newhouse out. Sessler finished first, while Smiley was eliminated after finishing third. Get the latest updates from the 2024 campaign trail, exclusive interviews and more at our Fox News Digital election hub.
Speaker Mike Johnson reveals Trump’s ‘little secret’ ahead of Election Day after Dems panic
House Speaker Mike Johnson, R-La., on Monday told voters in Pennsylvania that the “little secret” former President Trump mentioned at his Madison Square Garden rally is a get-out-the-vote strategy, not something “diabolical.” Democrats have been in panic since Trump teased Sunday that his “little secret” with Johnson would help Republicans keep the House of Representatives come Election Day. A New York Times article suggested that in the worst case scenario, Democrats feared Johnson would work with Trump to steal the election and stop the certification of results on Jan. 6. 2025, should Vice President Harris win. “It’s nothing scandalous, but we’re having a ball with this. The media, their heads are exploding. ‘What is the secret?’” Johnson said Monday at an event for GOP congressional candidate Ryan Mackenzie, according to The Hill. “It’s a thing we have about — it’s a get-out-the-vote. It’s one of our tactics on get-out-the-vote,” Johnson said in response to a voter’s question about Trump’s comment. HARRIS BREAKS SILENCE AFTER GOP LEADERS SAY ANTI-TRUMP RHETORIC ‘RISKS INVITING’ ANOTHER ASSASSINATION ATTEMPT “But they are convinced,” the speaker added, jokingly rubbing his hands together like he had an evil plan. On Sunday, Trump said his “little secret” with Johnson would help Republicans win congressional elections, but he otherwise kept tight-lipped about it. “I think with our little secret we’re going to do really well with the House, right?” Trump said, directing his remarks at Johnson. “Our little secret is having a big impact. He and I have a little secret — we will tell you what it is when the race is over.” His comments, delivered with a chuckle, set off a reported wave of fear and panic among Democrats who speculated that Trump could have been referring to attempts to steal the election. MIKE JOHNSON KICKS OFF SWING-STATE TOUR AS GOP CLINGS TO HOUSE CONTROL Rep. Dan Goldman, D-N.Y., told the Times he took Trump to mean he had a “backup plan” in case Republicans lose the election. “There’s a lot of ability for a bad actor to mess with the Electoral College if he’s the speaker of the House,” he said. “If I’m wrong, they should say so. Trump has a lot of secrets: His medical records are secret, his taxes are secret, his phone calls with Vladimir Putin are secret. Clearly he hides a lot from the American people. Now he’s openly stated that he’s hiding something from the electorate.” In comments to The Hill, Johnson called the rampant speculation that he and Trump were planning to break the law after the election “absolute, utter nonsense.” FIRST ON FOX: TOP OUTSIDE GROUP BACKING HOUSE REPUBLICANS SETS FUNDRAISING RECORD “I’m a lifelong constitutional law attorney. We’re going to respect the law. We’re going to follow the constitution to a T,” Johnson told the outlet. “I’ve proven that over and over and over. So all this conjecture is actually hilarious to us, that people are apoplectic about this. It’s a — it’s one of our get out the vote strategies. That’s what we’re talking about. And it’s almost a tongue-in-cheek thing.” Reached for comment, Trump campaign spokesman Steven Cheung told Fox News Digital, “President Trump has done countless telerallies reaching millions of Americans across the country in key regions that also helps bolster Republicans in congressional races.” In Pennsylvania, Johnson said Trump refers to this get-out-the-vote effort as their “secret.” “It’s not diabolical,” he said, per The Hill. “It’s actually very good. It’s going to help us with the turnout. All this is blowing their minds. They just can’t — They cannot fathom that Trump and Vance have the support that they do around the country like they do from — from new demographics of people.”
Doug Emhoff says wife Kamala Harris supports Israel ‘in her soul’ and passes gut-check for Jewish priorities
In an 11th-hour pitch to Jewish voters, second gentleman Doug Emhoff told a crowd in Pennsylvania that his wife, Vice President Kamala Harris, “feels it in her gut” what it means to support Israel. “Let me be direct and answer the question that Jews have asked for generations. Yes, she feels it in her gut. Kamala feels it, as we say, in her kishkes,” Emhoff said during an address in Pittsburgh. The so-called gut test came up during the days of former President Barack Obama, when some Jews questioned how deep his support for Israel was. “Her commitment to the security of Israel is unwavering. Not just because of what she said publicly, though she has said through her entire career, consistently, but also by what she does and says when it’s just us,” Emhoff said. The address was timed to coincide with the six-year anniversary of the devastating shooting at the Tree of Life synagogue, which was last Sunday. Both Harris and former President Donald Trump have been courting Jewish voters unsettled by the conflict in the Middle East. Historically, the religious voting bloc has favored Democrats. About 7 in 10 voted for President Biden in 2020. A Pew Research poll from last month put their support for Harris at over two-thirds. “I know it’s in her soul. I know she feels what you and I and Jews across America are feeling today. She gets it. And to tell you the truth, it’s not because she married a nice Jewish boy,” Emhoff said. SENATORS THREATEN TO STRIP FUNDING TO UN AND PALESTINIANS IF ISRAEL IS KICKED OUT OF GENERAL ASSEMBLY “After Charlottesville, after the Tree of Life, after Oct. 7, the person that I turned to and talked to was my wife, after Hamas brutally executed Hirsch and the other hostages. She and I grieved together,” he went on. He then turned to the “threat” he said Trump poses to Jews. “Whenever chaos and cruelty are given a green light, Jew-hatred is historically not far behind,” Emhoff said of the Republican nominee. “That matters today because Donald Trump is nothing if not an agent of chaos and cruelty.” “We should never have to wonder where our government stands,” he continued. “We should never have to wonder whether our leaders are praising Nazis behind closed doors. So when Donald Trump says something unhinged, do not roll your eyes. Roll up your sleeves,” he said. DOUG EMHOFF DOESN’T DENY REPORT HE SLAPPED EX-GIRLFRIEND OUTSIDE OVERSEAS MOVIE EVENT Emhoff was referring to a report from The Atlantic, where Trump reportedly said, “I need the kind of generals that Hitler had.” While Jewish voters as a whole tend to favor liberals, orthodox Jews are expected to largely support Trump in next week’s election. A poll by Nishma Research, which surveys Orthodox Jews, found some 77% support Trump. Pennsylvania has some 300,000 voting-age Jewish residents. Around 80,000 votes separated Biden and Trump in 2020. The Trump team has held out hope they can chip away at Democratic support within the Jewish community. Trump himself has reacted with disbelief that Jewish voters support Democrats. “It doesn’t make sense,” Trump said last month of Jews who vote for Harris. “Any Jewish person who votes for her should have their head examined. I find it hard to believe. Part of it is a habit, I think.” “I’m not going to call this a prediction, but, in my opinion, the Jewish people would have a lot to do with a loss” in November, he said. Harris has walked a tight rope between maintaining support for Israel and Jewish priorities and trying to avoid upsetting Arab American voters, who represent a large voting bloc in swing state Michigan. Some Arab American voters, fed up with the Biden-Harris administration’s handling of Israel’s war in Gaza, have said they will vote for Trump as a form of protest. A new poll from the Arab News Research and Studies Unit found Trump leading among Arab American voters 43 to 41%.
‘JAIL for Alien Voters Act’ would close loophole, crack down on illegal-immigrant voting, says Gaetz
FIRST ON FOX: Rep. Matt Gaetz, R-Fla., is introducing a bill Tuesday that he says would plug a loophole in current federal law by making it a felony for illegal immigrants to vote in U.S. elections, aligning penalties with those for U.S. citizens unlawfully voting. Currently, the prohibited acts under federal law for U.S. elections do not state that voting as an illegal immigrant is a prohibited act. Gaetz’s legislation would add voting as a noncitizen as a prohibited act and increase the penalty from a misdemeanor to a felony with up to five years in prison and a $10,000 fine. YOUNGKIN VOWS TO APPEAL ‘TO SCOTUS’ AFTER US JUDGE ORDERS 1,600 VOTERS BACK ON BALLOT “President Donald Trump is right: illegal aliens who vote in our elections should be in jail,” Gaetz told Fox News Digital in a statement. “It is unacceptable that illegal aliens get lighter sentences for defrauding our elections than U.S. citizens.” “My legislation, the JAIL for Alien Voters Act, will create parity in punishment for those who commit voter fraud, regardless of immigration status. It’s common sense that U.S. citizens should be the only ones voting in U.S. elections,” he said. Reps. Andy Ogles, R-Tenn., Andy Biggs, R-Ariz., Mike Collins, R-Ga., Claudia Tenney, R-N.Y., and Barry Moore, R-Ala., are cosponsors. YOUNGKIN HITS BACK AT DOJ SUIT OVER ‘COMMON SENSE’ LAW THAT CULLS NONCITIZENS FROM VOTER ROLL Earlier this month, in response to the Biden-Harris Justice Department suing Virginia over its removal of illegal immigrants from voter rolls, Gaetz introduced the “National Motor Voter Clarification Act.” This legislation aims to ensure that states can remove illegal immigrants from their voter rolls at any time. Gaetz said these measures aim to safeguard U.S. elections from potential voting by the millions of illegal immigrants who entered through the U.S.-Mexico border during the Biden-Harris administration. A federal appeals court on Sunday ruled that a lower court was correct to re-instate some 1,600 Virginia voters who have questionable citizenship status to the rolls. On Friday, U.S. Judge Patricia Giles issued a preliminary injunction to reinstate all voters who had been removed from state voter rolls in the past 90 days. The judge found that the removals had been “systematic,” not individualized, and were thus a violation of federal law. Her ruling came after the Justice Department filed a lawsuit against the State of Virginia, Virginia State Board of Elections and Virginia Commissioner of Elections on Oct. 11, saying that by removing voters from rolls too close to the Nov. 5 general election, the state had violated the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA). If the case is picked up by the Supreme Court, it would likely be in the days leading up to Election Day. Fox News Digital’s Louis Casiano contributed to this report.