Ballot battles: Supreme Court sides with Virginia, lawsuit in battleground Pennsylvania

WASHINGTON (TNND) — Election Day hasn’t officially arrived but the legal battles are in full swing in what could be the most litigated election ever.

On Wednesday the U.S. Supreme Court issued an emergency ruling allowing Virginia's removal of 1,600 non-citizens from the voter rolls to stay in place.

This decision came after a federal appeals court upheld a federal judge's order restoring those registrations arguing Virginia's action violated federal law which prohibits voter role purges within 90 days of an election.

This is a victory for common sense," Gov. Glenn Youngkin, R-Va., told TNND after the ruling. "This allows us to have the cleanest voter rolls in the country in my view, to have a fair and accurate election that will reflect the will of the people and that's my job."

Former U.S. attorney John P. Fishwick Jr.called it a big win for Youngkin's legal team.

"What the Supreme Court is saying is if it’s a non-citizen you can remove them at any time and that doesn’t have to comply with the Voter Registration Act."

It’s a blow to President Joe Biden’s Justice Department who convinced lower courts to reinstate the registrations. The DOJ argued the action leaves too much room for error where legal voters could be removed by mistake.

This is what happened to Virginia resident Nils Gustavsson who became a citizen two years ago. Gustavsson said he thankfully recognized he was removed in time to re-register by the deadline.

Any state should obviously do their best effort to make sure the people on there are the right ones but I just felt like this one came very suddenly," said Gustavsson. "They claim people were supposed to be informed, we were never informed that we had been dropped...like anyone who has a right to be on those rolls it’s concerning that you get bumped off because it would tell me that the checks and balances that they use are not accurate."

Gustavsson voted early this week. His first time voting in a U.S. election.

Meanwhile, two incidents playing out in Pennsylvania spurring legal action there.

A videofrom Delaware County, Pa. shows a female Trump supporter handcuffed and taken away from a polling location. Police claim she was a disturbance. The woman claims she was simply encouraging people to stay in line and vote.

The Trump campaign is also alleging voters in Bucks County, Pa. were turned away or prevented from obtaining mail-in ballots. RNC Co-Chair Michael Watley announced during Tuesday's rally in Allentown that the Trump-Vance Campaign has filed a lawsuit against Bucks County.