Breaking News: Divided Supreme Court allows Virginia to purge suspected non-citizens from voter rolls

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Divided Supreme Court allows Virginia to purge suspected non-citizens from voter rolls

The Supreme Court ruled Wednesday that Virginia can implement a program to strip potential non-citizens from the voter rolls in advance of next week's presidential election, halting a lower court order that would have restored about 1,600 voter registrations canceled as part of the clean-up.

The Justice Department and civil rights groups alleged the program has improperly removed some U.S. citizens from the rolls.

All three of the high court's liberal justices dissented from the action, announced in a one-page order.

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