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A federal judge on Thursday tossed a conservative legal group’s lawsuit against a controversial Washington, D.C. law that allows noncitizens — including illegal immigrants and foreign embassy staff members — to vote in municipal elections.
In a 12-page opinion, Judge Amy Berman Jackson said the plaintiffs, a group of U.S. citizen voters represented by the Immigration Reform Law Institute (IRLI), lacked standing to challenge the law because they could not demonstrate how they are harmed by noncitizens who vote and run for local office.
The complaint “does not include facts showing plaintiffs’ right to vote has been denied, that they have been subjected to discrimination or inequitable treatment or denied opportunities when compared to another group, or that their rights as citizens have been ‘subordinated merely because of [their] father’s country of origin,” Jackson wrote.
“They identify nothing that has been taken away or diminished and no right that has been made subordinate to anyone else’s,” the judge claimed in her ruling.
“In sum, plaintiffs have not alleged that they have personally been subjected to any sort of disadvantage as individual voters by virtue of the fact that noncitizens are permitted to vote, too,” Jackson wrote.
The shocking ruling continues, as the judge claimed the plaintiffs are not harmed by noncitizens voting in their local elections:
“They may object as a matter of policy to the fact that immigrants get to vote at all, but their votes will not receive less weight or be treated differently than noncitizens’ votes; they are not losing representation in any legislative body; nor have citizens as a group been discriminatorily gerrymandered, ‘packed’ or ‘cracked’ to divide, concentrate, or devalue their votes.”
“At bottom, they are simply raising a generalized grievance which is insufficient to confer standing.”
Judge Amy Berman Jackson, 69, was appointed by Barack Obama in 2010 and was confirmed to the seat in 2011.
In October 2022, the D.C. city council passed the Local Resident Voting Rights Act, which allows a noncitizen to vote in local elections as long as they have lived in Washington, D.C. for at least 30 days. The law also allows noncitizen residents to run for local D.C. government offices and serve on the city’s Board of Elections, the report states.
The Epoch Times shared details on the lawsuit that had been filed against the law:
“It follows from our national independence that United States citizens have a right to govern, and be governed by, themselves. The constitutional right to citizen self-government, moreover, has been recognized in repeated holdings of the Supreme Court of the United States,” their complaint reads.“Nor does any noncitizen have a constitutional right to govern the United States,” the complaint adds.
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CLICK HERE to read the complaint which was filed in an attempt to stop the D.C. law allowing illegal aliens to vote.
Federal judge dismisses lawsuit challenging DC noncitizen voting law https://t.co/z25ZxwlTP6
— Fox News (@FoxNews) March 22, 2024
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