{"database": "press", "table": "releases", "rows": [["https://bobbyscott.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/scott-slams-scotus-ruling-greenlighting-youngkin-trump-gop-voter", "Scott Slams SCOTUS Ruling Greenlighting Youngkin, Trump & GOP Voter Suppression Tactics", "2024-10-30", "2024", "2024-10", "Democrat", "House", "VA", "Robert C. \"Bobby\" Scott", "S000185", "bobbyscott.house.gov", "bobbyscott", "https://bobbyscott.house.gov/media-center/press-releases", "scraper", "NEWPORT NEWS, VA \u2013 Congressman Bobby Scott (VA-03), co-chair of the Congressional Voting Rights Caucus and Dean of the Virginia Congressional Delegation, issued the following statement on the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s decision reversing U.S. District Court Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles\u2019 order requiring the Youngkin Administration to reinstate more than 1,600 voters who may have been illegally purged from Virginia\u2019s voter rolls in violation of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993:\n\n\u201cI am deeply disappointed and disturbed by the U.S. Supreme Court\u2019s decision to greenlight blatant voter suppression efforts in the Commonwealth of Virginia. This decision will allow Governor Youngkin to strip Virginians of their right to vote in clear violation of federal law. This decision also perpetuates the falsehood that noncitizens are voting in meaningful numbers and former President Trump\u2019s plan to undermine confidence in our elections.\n\n\u201cThe National Voter Registration Act is clear. It requires all states to complete any systematic removal of voters from its voter rolls 90 days before a federal election. This statute gives states ample time prior to this deadline to review its voter rolls. Most importantly, it provides voters sufficient time to rectify any improper removal prior to Election Day. U.S. District Court Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles determined that Governor Youngkin\u2019s actions violated this statute, and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit upheld her order citing the Commonwealth\u2019s defense of the action as \u2018weak\u2019 and that it \u2018violates basic principles of statutory construction.\u2019 Furthermore, the Fourth Circuit recognized that the Commonwealth maintains the ability to remove ineligible voters on an individualized basis to limit the risk of improper removals.\n\n\u201cUnfortunately, this latest order by the Supreme Court is just one in a series of rulings that have rolled back fundamental rights, freedoms and foundational principles of our democracy. This Court gutted key provisions of the Voting Rights Act, stripped women of their right to make decisions about their own body, diminished the ability of federal agencies to protect communities from toxic pollutants, and created the foundation for a President of the United States to be immune from the law.\u201d\n\n# # #", 1, "2026-03-30T01:40:41Z", "2026-04-07T21:57:20Z"]], "columns": ["url", "title", "date", "year", "month", "party", "chamber", "state", "member_name", "bioguide_id", "domain", "scraper", "source", "date_source", "text", "has_text", "collected_at", "updated_at"], "primary_keys": ["url"], "primary_key_values": ["https://bobbyscott.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/scott-slams-scotus-ruling-greenlighting-youngkin-trump-gop-voter"], "units": {}, "query_ms": 1.540602184832096, "source": "dwillis/congress-press", "source_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press", "license": "MIT", "license_url": "https://github.com/dwillis/congress-press/blob/main/LICENSE"}