A NYC law that would allow noncitizens to vote in municipal elections is facing yet another legal challenge—this time in federal court—after an Indiana-based conservative legal group filed a lawsuit in U.S. District Court on behalf of four local voters.
, PILF’s leaders have been among a cadre of lawyers who have stoked unfounded fears of election fraud across the country and backed former President Donald Trump’s lies that the 2020 election was stolen. In reply to the press reports, Bowman said in a statement that read in part, “The Public Interest Legal Foundation is a nonprofit, public interest law firm dedicated exclusively to election integrity. Fears of election crimes are not baseless.
Amid a national tug-of-war over voting rights – with legislation and court cases seeking either to expand or curtail voting access and eligibility, largely divided on political lines – the federal lawsuit against Local Law 11 brings a new argument to the courts, according to University of Kentucky law professor Josh Douglas, who studies voting rights and elections law.
The latest complaint cites the 15th Amendment, which granted African American men the right to vote, and the Voting Rights Act of 1965, which outlawed literacy tests and other election restrictions barring many Black Southerners from voting. “This particular legislation is going to shift the power dynamics in New York City in a major way,” Cultural Affairs Commissioner Laurie Cumbo – then a councilmember representing parts of Brooklyn – is quoted in the lawsuit as saying. And later on: “I’m clear how the Dominican Republic community will benefit, but not the African American community.”
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