New York’s Supreme Court on Thursday struck down a law that would have allowed non-citizens to vote in municipal elections.
In 2021, New York City lawmakers passed a bill that would give noncitizens and illegal aliens the right to vote in municipal elections.
The new measure would give 800,000 green card holders and illegal alien “DREAMers” the right to cast a ballot.
The City Council bypassed state lawmakers and passed the measure and as expected, it prompted a legal challenge.
Republican opponents said the city council did not have the authority to grant voting rights to illegals.
Then-NYC Mayor Bill de Blasio did not veto the measure.
Multiple lawsuits were filed to challenge the law and on Thursday, New York’s high court struck it down.
Politico reported:
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 Republicans who challenged the idea.
The law would have made more than 800,000 people eligible to vote in municipal contests such as mayoral races.
“We file some lawsuits that are stretches,” said Joe Borelli, the former Republican minority leader of the New York City Council and one of the plaintiffs who challenged the law. “This one was, from the beginning, an open-shut case.”
The law was approved in the waning days of Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration. When neither he nor successor Eric Adams issued a veto, it automatically became law in early 2022.
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