The Biden-Harris Department of Justice sued Virginia earlier this month in hopes of killing an initiative aimed at removing thousands of suspected noncitizens from the commonwealth's voter rolls. The Youngkin administration fought back and won. Virginia Attorney General Jason Miyares noted, "I am pleased to announce that the US Supreme Court granted Virginia's emergency stay to keep noncitizens off our voter rolls." In a 6-3 ruling Wednesday, the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily overruled Democrat-appointed 4th Circuit judges and halted a Biden-appointed judge's order, thereby allowing Virginia to resume the work of making sure that only American citizens can vote in next week's election. Liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented. The stay means that Virginia — where the latest Quantus Insights poll indicates Kamala Harris and President Donald Trump are virtually tied — will not have to put over 1,500 suspected noncitizens back onto its voter rolls before Election Day. 'Kamala's Administration sued Virginia and is now arguing to the US Supreme Court that non-citizens must remain on the voter rolls.' Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin said in a statement, "We are pleased by the Supreme Court's order today. This is a victory for commonsense and election fairness. I am grateful for the work of Attorney General Jason Miyares on this critical fight to protect the fundamental rights of U.S. citizens." "Clean voter rolls are one important part of a comprehensive approach we are taking to ensure the fairness of our elections," continued Youngkin. "Virginians can cast their ballots on Election Day knowing that Virginia's elections are fair, secure, and free from politically motivated interference." Dozens of red states backed Virginia's defense along with the Republican National Committee. Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill tweeted, "Huge victory for election integrity! SCOTUS grants Virginia's emergency stay to keep noncitizens off its voter roles. Proud to have joined my fellow AGs in support of the American people and our most sacred right." Murrill was among the 27 state attorneys general who filed an amicus brief asking the high court to allow Virginia to resume the work of ensuring the integrity of the election. The amicus brief noted, "Non-citizens are not eligible voters. They were not eligible voters before Congress passed the National Voter Registration Act, they were not eligible when Congress passed the NVRA, and they are not eligible today." Ahead of the ruling, RNC chairman Michael Whatley stated, "With only one week to our country's most important election, Democrats are now taking extraordinary measures to keep non-citizens on voter rolls. Kamala's Administration sued Virginia and is now arguing to the U.S. Supreme Court that non-citizens must remain on the voter rolls." Blaze News previously reported that the DOJ sued the state over Youngkin's Aug. 7 executive order, which requires both the commissioner of the Virginia Department of Elections to routinely update voter lists to remove individuals identified as noncitizens and that the state Department of Motor Vehicles must expedite the interagency data-sharing with the DOE with regard to noncitizen transactions. According to the DOJ, the election integrity initiative violated Section 8(c)(2) of the National Voter Registration Act, which requires states to complete programs intended to systematically remove the names of ineligible voters from registration lists by no later than 90 days prior to a primary election or general election for federal office. Judge Patricia Tolliver Giles of the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia agreed with the DOJ, claiming the removals of suspected noncitizens amounted to a "clear violation" of the NVRA. Giles ordered Virginia to reinstate those individuals whose registrations were canceled under the program, including suspected noncitizens. Virginia asked the 4th Circuit to put a hold on Giles' order, but two Obama-appointed judges and another Biden appointee denied their request Sunday, prompting the state to file for an emergency stay of the injunction hours later. The commonwealth's emergency application stated that the injunction sought by the Biden-Harris DOJ will "irreparably injure Virginia's sovereignty, confuse her voters, overload her election machinery and administrators, and likely lead noncitizens to think they are permitted to vote, a criminal offense that will cancel the franchise of eligible voters." According to Virginia, the program did not violate the NVRA as it was an individualized removal process. Further, the state stressed that Giles' injunction was based on a provision of the NVRA that "does not even apply to the removal of noncitizens and other voter registrations that are void ab initio." The state told the high court that of the over 1,600 suspected noncitizens whom Giles ordered back onto the voter rolls: About 600 of these individuals personally informed Virginia's Department of Motor Vehicles (DMV) that they are not citizens, and about 1,000 presented noncitizen residency documents to DMV and were then positively identified as noncitizens through the United States' own Systematic Alerian Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) database. The Supreme Court did not indicate which of the state's arguments ultimately prompted its decision. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

Blaze News investigative reporter Steve Baker says his attorney will ask U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper for a continuance of his Jan. 6 criminal case so that he can seek reconsideration of the judge’s refusal to dismiss charges based on selective prosecution. In a nine-page Oct. 25 opinion and order, Judge Cooper said Baker failed to demonstrate the elements of his motion to dismiss the four misdemeanor charges against him for being at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Baker said defense attorney William Shipley will ask for a trial delay in order to seek reconsideration of Cooper’s decision. “The most important legal argument that we’re bringing is this: Somewhere in the vicinity of 80 journalists of all types — credentialed employees of mainstream news organizations from the New York Times to the L.A. Times to French media to British television — went through broken windows and broken doors that day without permission,” Baker said Oct. 29. “Included in that bunch were freelancers, independents, bloggers, podcasters, and social media influencers without credentials,” Baker said. Reporters and photographers for those media organizations have not been arrested or charged with trespassing or other misdemeanor crimes for entering the Capitol on Jan. 6. More than a half-dozen right-of-center journalists have been prosecuted by the U.S. Department of Justice for being on restricted grounds Jan. 6. Baker said Cooper’s decision does not answer the legal points Shipley raised in the original motion to dismiss the charges. Baker was arrested in Dallas on March 1 and charged with entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly and disruptive conduct in a restricted building or grounds, disorderly conduct, and parading, demonstrating, or picketing in a Capitol building. He pleaded not guilty to the charges. Baker’s case is scheduled to go to trial Nov. 12 in Washington, D.C. The pending motion for reconsideration could delay the trial date. A pretrial hearing in the case is set for Nov. 6. In response to a request for comment, Daniel Ball, a public affairs specialist for the U.S. Attorney's Office, told Blaze News: "We do not have any additional comments outside of what you can find in publicly available court filings." — (@) Judge Cooper previously denied Baker’s motion to be allowed to retain his firearms during the case due to ongoing threats based on his investigative reporting. Baker said two stalkers have followed him across the country in the past six months. Shipley appealed the firearms denial to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, but that court upheld Cooper’s ruling. Baker said the DOJ has extended a plea offer to him. Three charges would be dismissed in exchange for a guilty plea to one count of entering and remaining in a restricted building or grounds. The offer is under consideration, he said. Like Blaze News? Bypass the censors, sign up for our newsletters, and get stories like this direct to your inbox. Sign up here!

The Call of Duty Black Ops 6 campaign definitely outshines the half-cooked effort from last year. Modern Warfare 3 didn’t really have a proper single-player mode - it was just Warzone with some objectives and loose narrative strands wrapped around it. But even though it had low expectations to meet, based on responses from CoD players on Steam, Black Ops 6 has outdone itself. Personally, I think the original Modern Warfare from 2007 is far and away the best Call of Duty campaign, closely followed by either Black Ops 3 or Ghosts (yes). But I’m not about to question the enthusiasm and adoration of Ice T, who says that Black Ops 6’s single-player missions represent the “best campaign…on any game in a while.” Continue reading Call of Duty Black Ops 6 campaign gets huge stamp of approval from Ice T himself MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Black Ops 6 guns, Black Ops 6 missions, Black Ops 6 loadouts

How do you complete the Liberty Falls main quest in Black Ops 6? Modern Warfare 3 Zombies took the mode in a new direction and, while it was certainly fun, nothing can compare to the classic round-based mode of old. Treyarch has delivered an excellent Zombies experience in Black Ops 6, and there's a full questline to complete while you're popping heads off the undead. Sure, you can jump into Black Ops 6 to see how many rounds you can survive in the zombie game, but the real fun lies in the Liberty Falls main quest. There's something incredibly satisfying about completing the hidden easter egg quests - not to mention the unlockable rewards to boot. Read on to find out how to craft the Thrustodyne M23 'Jet Gun' Wonder Weapon in the multiplayer game and complete the Liberty Falls main quest in full. Continue reading Black Ops 6 Zombies Liberty Falls main quest guide MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Black Ops 6 guns, Black Ops 6 missions, Black Ops 6 loadouts

What are the PUBG system requirements? PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds is already seven years old, which means running it on your gaming PC is an easy task, provided you've got a relatively new setup. However, if you're working with older hardware, fear not, as the minimum specs are obtainable for systems up to a decade old. PUBG doesn't demand the best graphics card but if you're chasing the highest fps possible, it will certainly help. If you want to know what the best PUGB settings are, we have a handy guide to help you there too. Continue reading PUBG system requirements MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Best battle royale games, PUBG 2 release date, Best multiplayer games

A picture of a new chip has surfaced on social media, which looks as though it could be a design for a new dual-GPU AMD Radeon graphics card. The image is unlike any recent AMD chip, with two identically-sized chiplets sitting side by side, but no I/O chip, which you would expect on a CPU, and no small Infinity Cache chips, which you would expect on a GPU. The AMD RDNA 4 release is now set for 2025, but this new lineup of GPUs was expected to be monolithic, meaning the GPU is all based on one chip, rather than multiple chiplets. However, AMD certainly has the technology to make chip packages containing more than one GPU, as it’s demonstrated with its CDNA 2 data center chip tech. What’s more, AMD recently announced that it’s now unifying RDNA and CDNA, so its gaming and data center chips will use the same core architecture. If AMD could build a new Radeon GPU with this tech, it could possibly make the best graphics card ever. Continue reading Is a new dual-GPU AMD Radeon card coming? This image suggests it’s possible MORE FROM PCGAMESN: Ryzen 7 7800X3D review, Best gaming CPU, Radeon RX 7800 XT review

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