[Breitbart] The New York Supreme Court has struck down a New York City law, passed by Democrats late last year, that sought to give municipal voting rights to nearly a million foreign nationals.
As Breitbart News has chronicled, Democrats on the 51-member New York City Council approved a plan last month that allows more than 800,000 foreign nationals with green cards, visas, and work permits the opportunity to vote in citywide elections so long as they have resided in the city for at least 30 consecutive days.
Subsequently, black Americans in New York City, along with naturalized American citizens, the New York State Republican Party, the Republican National Committee (RNC), and Democrat officials like Councilman Robert Holden sued Mayor Eric Adams (D) and the city’s Board of Elections.
The lawsuit noted that the New York State Constitution expressly states that voting rights are a privilege reserved for American "citizens."
In its decision on Monday, the Court ruled that the law is "illegal, null, and void" because "it is clear ... that voting is a right granted to citizens of the United States," writing:
Local governments, including city governments, must be elected by the people, which is defined as citizens under Article II. Based upon the foregoing analysis, the Court finds that the Municipal Voting Law explicitly violates the New York State Constitution, as only "citizens" may vote in elections. [Emphasis added]
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The Court needs not look to the legislative intent of this section to know there is no carevout for noncitizens to vote under the Election Law. This section applies to "any" election within New York State. [Emphasis added]
The Court’s granting a permanent injunction will ensure that the New York City law is thrown out and that the Board of Elections cannot register foreign nationals to vote.
"Today’s ruling is a huge victory for election integrity and the rule of law: American elections should be decided by American citizens," RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel said in a statement. "The RNC is proud to head a broad coalition in successfully challenging this unconstitutional scheme and will continue to lead the effort across the country to ensure only citizens can vote in America’s elections."
"This is a great win for the rule of law in our democratic election process," said former Ambassador Ken Blackwell, board member of the Public Interest Legal Foundation and chairman of the Center for Election Integrity at the America First Policy Institute.
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Its New York City - local polling stations will just look the other way when Jose comes to cast his ballot. Even if it gets enforced they'll still have the mail-in vote that'll be 90% for Dems anyway.
[FoxNews] Manhattan has hemorrhaged about 12% of the staff so far this year.
Hundreds of prosecutors in New York City are quitting the district attorneys' offices amid controversial criminal justice reforms.
Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg's office this year has hemorrhaged 65 assistant district attorneys, which is about 12% of the staff.
Bragg released a memo on his third day in office, ordering prosecutors not to seek prison sentences for a number of crimes and to downgrade charges – including for robberies and commercial burglaries.
Manhattan's situation mirrors that of Brooklyn, where 67 prosecutors — approximately 13% — have resigned from DA Eric Gonzalez's office as of June 17, with three more leaving last Thursday alone, according to the New York Post. In 2020, 84 resigned, and 94 left office in 2021. Fifty-nine prosecutors have quit in the Bronx beginning this year through May.
The resignations come amid state criminal justice reforms that some have criticized for being too onerous.
In 2019, New York adopted discovery requirements that ordered lawyers to turn over large amounts of material to the defense in a short amount of time.
Joan Illuzzi-Orbon, a former Manhattan assistant district attorney and trial division chief who prosecuted Harvey Weinstein, told the New York Post that such regulations are "crippling our lawyers."
"You become a file clerk rather than a trial lawyer," she said, providing the example of how every officer's bodycam footage at a protest might have to be produced if there are allegations of wrongdoing.
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