{"id":37171,"date":"2022-06-27T20:24:04","date_gmt":"2022-06-27T20:24:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/nyc-judge-strikes-down-law-allowing-noncitizens-to-vote-in-city-elections"},"modified":"2022-06-27T20:24:04","modified_gmt":"2022-06-27T20:24:04","slug":"nyc-judge-strikes-down-law-allowing-noncitizens-to-vote-in-city-elections","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/news\/nyc-judge-strikes-down-law-allowing-noncitizens-to-vote-in-city-elections","title":{"rendered":"NYC judge strikes down law allowing noncitizens to vote in city elections"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>June 27 (UPI) &#8212; A New York City judge on Monday struck down a landmark law extending the right to vote in local elections to noncitizen immigrants who live, work and pay taxes in the city.Richmond County Supreme Court Judge Ralph Porzio said in a ruling issued in Staten Island that Local Law 11, passed by the New York City Council late last year, violated the state constitution. &#8220;The New York State Constitution expressly states that citizens meeting the age and residency requirements are entitled to register and vote in elections,&#8221; Porzio wrote in the 13-page ruling.&#8221;Though voting is a right so many citizens take for granted, the City of New York cannot &#8216;obviate&#8217; the restrictions imposed by the Constitution,&#8221; he added. The ruling negates an action taken by the City Council in December, when it voted 33-14 with two abstentions to approve Local Law 11 allowing noncitizens to vote in elections for positions such as mayor, city council and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>June 27 (UPI) &#8212; A New York City judge on Monday struck down a landmark law extending the right to vote in local elections to noncitizen immigrants who live, work<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[293,78,42,43],"class_list":["post-37171","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-congress-courts","tag-constitution","tag-politics","tag-u-s-politics"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37171","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37171"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37171\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37171"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37171"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/omni48.com\/api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37171"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}