Gov. Glenn Youngkin (R-VA) took to the airwaves to fight back against the Department of Justice’s new lawsuit against the commonwealth of Virginia , charging that the “unprecedented” lawsuit has ulterior motives.
The DOJ sued the commonwealth after Youngkin issued an executive order in August that removed over 6,300 noncitizens from the state’s voter registration rolls , with the lawsuit stating they were removed “too close” to Election Day. The governor argued that he had used a law signed by former Gov. Tim Kaine (D-VA) in 2006, and Virginia governors have used this law since then to clean up its voter registration rolls.
“Here I am a governor, mandated, and oh, by the way, proud to support and defend the Constitution of the United States, the Constitution of the commonwealth of Virginia, and by law to make sure we have clean voter rolls, and the Department of Justice shows up 25 days before a presidential election and says ‘stop doing that,’” Youngkin said on Fox News’s Hannity. “To me, this is unprecedented, and I think it represents a Department of Justice that is trying to achieve something other than fair and free elections.”