NYC’s Law Allowing Noncitizens to Vote is Dead as State’s Highest Court Shuts It Down; Why the Left Can’t Let Go of Its Nutty Love of Noncitizen Voting

NYC’s law allowing noncitizens to vote is dead as state’s highest court shuts it down:

The Big Apple’s controversial law allowing noncitizens to vote in city elections was struck down by the state’s highest court Thursday.

The New York Court of Appeals ruled 6-1 that the law — passed by the City Council in late 2021, with the support of current Democratic mayoral candidates Adrienne Adams and Brad Lander — violated the state constitution.

“Whatever the future may bring, the New York Constitution as it stands today draws a firm line restricting voting to citizens,” the opinion states.

No noncitizens in New York City ever cast a vote under the law, as it quickly was challenged in the courts.

The ruling closes the matter in the state courts and dashes hopes by many lefty City Council members and advocates of the city’s 800,000 green card holders getting a voice in local elections.

Former Councilman Ydanis Rodriguez, who now serves as Mayor Eric Adams’ transportation commissioner, had introduced the bill.

He and other supporters argued that noncitizens here legally should be able to vote because they pay taxes and make contributions to their communities.

As the bill wound its way through the Council, it racked up 36 co-sponsors, including from current-Speaker Adrienne Adams, Lander, now the city comptroller. Current city comptroller candidates Justin Brannan and Mark Levine also backed the bill.

The Council passed the legislation over the objections of Republicans, who viewed the proposed law as a nonstarter, especially because the state constitution appeared to clearly limit voting to US citizens. —>READ MORE HERE

Why the left can’t let go of its nutty love of noncitizen voting:

Blam

The Court of Appeals, New York’s highest court, just slammed the door on noncitizen voting — and progressives’ years-long drive to blur the differences between citizen and non-citizen, indeed between citizen and illegal immigrant.

Across the country, the left has pushed such illegal voting with the insane claim that not letting noncitizens vote is somehow anti-democratic.

It’s of a piece with the progressive view that it’s somehow evil to control our own borders, and the left’s general contempt for anything approaching patriotism — and of course they figure it’d help them win elections.

Thus, Democrats in Virginia and Ohio objected last year when the states purged hundreds of noncitizens from voter rolls, treating it as some kind of right-wing voter suppression.

Happily, though progs have pushed New York’s Court of Appeals well to the left, the jurists can still read: “Whatever the future may bring, the New York Constitution as it stands today draws a firm line restricting voting to citizens,” explained Chief Judge Rowan Wilson in his majority opinion.

The court’s 6-1 decision struck down the City Council’s 2021 law to allow 800,000 noncitizens with green cards to vote in city elections — a measure that won the votes of current mayoral hopefuls Adrienne Adams and Brad Lander, as well as both Democratic comptroller candidates, Mark Levine and Justin Brannan. —>READ MORE HERE

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