A federal judge ruled this week that a 40-year-old law passed by Congress that made it a misdemeanor offense for noncitizens to vote was invalid because the power to decide who can and can’t cast a ballot is primarily reserved for the states.

A federal judge ruled this week that a 40-year-old law passed by Congress that made it a misdemeanor offense for noncitizens to vote was invalid because the power to decide who can and can’t cast a ballot is primarily reserved for the states. ↧ Judge guts noncitizen voting law used in Trump administration’s e... The federal judge ruled that “the Constitution does not authorize Congress to legislate voter qualifications for federal elections.”