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Miami judge rules federal noncitizen voting law unconstitutional
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US District Judge David Leibowitz dismissed a federal case against Chelsea Cox and ruled that Congress lacks authority to criminalize noncitizen voting because voter qualifications are controlled by the states. The ruling applies only to Cox’s case.
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US District Judge David Leibowitz ruled that a federal law criminalizing noncitizen voting is unconstitutional.
“A United States federal judge has ruled that a law criminalising voting by noncitizens is unconstitutional”
David Leibowitz dismissed the federal case against Chelsea Cox.
“US District Judge David Leibowitz in Miami dismissed a federal case on Thursday against Chelsea Cox”
The judge ruled that only individual states, not Congress, have authority to set voter qualifications.
“only individual states, not the US Congress, have the authority to set voter qualifications”