Voting By Non-Citizens Is Already Illegal Despite Fraudulent Claims Made By MAGA Republicans

Michael Waldman\Brennan Center Photos: YouTube Screenshots The Brennan Center is part of a broad coalition tracking election-related disinformation. A big rumor we’ve identified rattling around the murkier regions of social media is that hordes of noncitizens are voting.  That’s false. A lie. An urban myth. But it has also, somehow, become the glue that’s holding together disparate wings of the Republican Party. And it may be the basis for a major new piece of misguided legislation. On Friday, House Speaker Mike Johnson stood with former President Trump at a press conference at Mar-a-Lago. They decried what they claimed is a contagion of noncitizen voting. And they announced new legislation — details to come — that could lead to the purging of hundreds of thousands of voters from the rolls. It’s the Big Lie put into legislative language. Yes, Johnson clings to his job only by a few ornery votes, but he is still the actual speaker of the actual House of Representatives.  And yes, Donald Trump held this press conference on the way to the first of his four scheduled criminal trials. Still, we have to take this both literally and seriously. Never before in American history has a sitting...