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NY High Court Shoots Down Dems' Efforts To Let Noncitizens Vote

New York’s highest court struck down New York City’s noncitizen voting law as unconstitutional on Thursday.

The New York State Court of Appeals ruled 6-1 that the 2021 law violates the state Constitution, finding that “Article II, section 1 of New York’s Constitution limits voting to citizens” and calling that “conclusion … hardly new.”

“Whatever the future may bring, the New York Constitution as it stands today draws a firm line restricting voting to citizens,” the court held, further ruling that the appellants “fundamentally misunderstood” several historical statutes they cited in trying to make their case.

“It takes but a moment to understand,” the court reasoned, that these historical statutes were not intended to “enfranchise noncitizens.”

The law was previously struck down last February by the Second Judicial Department in the appellate division of the state Supreme Court, with Justice Paul Wooten finding the law was “in violation of the New York State Constitution and Municipal Home Rule Law.” That decision upheld a previous decision by a lower court.

The law would have allowed up to 800,000 noncitizens to vote in municipal elections, and as previously noted in the ruling from the Second Judicial Department, “noncitizens could potentially make up 15% or more of the electorate in future elections … which is greater than the