The Biden Harris administration is suing the state of Alabama for removing non-citizens from its voter rolls.

On August 13th, Alabama's Secretary of State announced a campaign to, quote, remove non-citizens registered

to vote in the state.

The DOJ has now said that Alabama has no right to do that. No surprise there.

Democrats have long thought to protect voter rolls padded with people who should

not be there.

What is surprising though is the argument that the DOJ is making to keep the people on the

voter rolls. Usually Democrats argue that efforts to restrict the voter rolls to eligible voters only are wrong because they will also kick people who

should vote off the rolls or that those measures will make it unnecessarily difficult for eligible

voters to vote. So the argument that usually make is not that the non-citizens,

the ineligible people should vote, it's that well we, we don't want to pass these measures that could

inadvertently keep eligible voters from voting. That's usually how they phrase it. In this case,

however, the DOJ is basically admitting that the people who would be affected

are non-citizens who have no right to vote.

The Alabama effort here would only affect 3,251 registered Alabama voters who had been

quote issued non-citizen

numbers by the Department of Homeland Security.

We are talking about a relatively small number of voters identified by the federal government

as ineligible to vote, and still that same federal government is suing to keep them on the

voter rolls and the only argument they're making is that Alabama waited a little

too long to remove them they should have done it 90 days out, but instead

they waited 86 days out. Now of course Alabama is a solidly Republican state and 3,000

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