Federal Appeals Court to Decide Public Disclosure Limits in Noncitizen Election Law Case

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit in Philadelphia will soon determine how much the public is entitled to know about noncitizens voting in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. Oral arguments took place on Sept. 11 over a summary judgment issued in March 2022 by the U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Pennsylvania that allowed the commonwealth to withhold from the public certain data pertaining to the identification and removal procedures of noncitizens from the voter rolls. According to the appeals filed by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) late last year, state election officials in 2017 publicly admitted to the Pennsylvania General Assembly that non-U.S. citizens had for decades been registered to vote by the Department of Transportation....