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New York’s prime court docket strikes down NYC noncitizen voting regulation after protracted authorized battle
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New York’s prime court docket strikes down NYC noncitizen voting regulation after protracted authorized battle

Last updated: March 20, 2025 6:55 pm
Editorial Board Published March 20, 2025
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After a authorized battle spanning greater than three years, New York’s prime court docket on Thursday struck down a metropolis regulation as unconstitutional that will’ve expanded the precise to vote in native elections to tons of of 1000’s of noncitizen residents.

The ruling from the State Court docket of Appeals doubtless marks the ultimate nail within the coffin for the regulation, because the Metropolis Council, which adopted the measure in 2021, has no larger venue to enchantment the matter to.

Within the 21-page ruling, issued by six of the highest court docket’s seven jurists, Chief Choose Rowan Wilson wrote that New York’s structure leaves no wiggle room in the case of who has the precise to vote within the Empire State.

“It is facially clear that only citizens may vote in elections within the State of New York,” he wrote.

Nevertheless, Wilson, citing French political thinker Alexis de Tocqueville, wrote that the U.S. has lengthy moved towards “expansion” of voting rights, usually through constitutional amendments.

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

Choose Rowan Wilson (Workplace of the Governor)

Spokespeople for the overwhelmingly Democratic Metropolis Council, which has defended the regulation in court docket, didn’t instantly return requests for remark.

A spokeswoman for Mayor Adams, who allowed the Council invoice to lapse into regulation in January 2022 with out signing it, confused it was the Council, not the mayor, who pursued the enchantment to Wilson’s bench after decrease courts dominated the regulation unconstitutional too.

“The highest court in New York State has made its decision, and we respect the court’s ruling,” added the Adams spokeswoman, Kayla Mamelak.

The regulation would’ve granted inexperienced card holders and another authorized immigrant New York Metropolis residents the precise to vote in most native elections, together with for mayor, public advocate, comptroller and Council. It will not have given such residents the precise to vote in presidential or gubernatorial elections.

On the time it handed the regulation in late 2021, the Council estimated it could’ve given 800,000 new metropolis residents the precise to vote domestically.

People vote at Riverside Church on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Manhattan, New York. (Barry Williams for New York Daily News)Folks vote at Riverside Church on Tuesday, Nov. 5, 2024, in Manhattan, New York. (Barry Williams for New York Day by day Information)

However the identical day the regulation took impact, Staten Island Borough President Vito Fossella and different native Republicans sued to dam it, arguing it flew within the face of the state structure. Opponents of the regulation have additionally claimed an enlargement of voting rights would unfairly assist Democratic candidate for public workplace.

A court docket struggle has dragged on ever for the reason that Fossella lawsuit, and amid it, the mayor’s administration hasn’t moved to implement the regulation.

Affiliate Court docket of Appeals Choose Jenny Rivera, the lone dissenter to Thursday’s ruling, wrote in her personal opinion that town’s residence rule capability to have decision-making energy over native issues ought to’ve trumped the state constitutional restriction.

The choice from her colleagues, Rivera added, “diminishes the power of localities statewide.”

Initially Revealed: March 20, 2025 at 1:51 PM EDT

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