Judge dismisses lawsuit against DC noncitizen voting law

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A federal judge has dismissed a lawsuit challenging a law in Washington, D.C., that allows noncitizens to vote in local but not federal elections.

Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia granted a motion to dismiss the lawsuit, saying that the seven voters who brought the lawsuit “failed to establish the injury-in-fact element of standing.”

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