Josh Gerstein for Politico:

A bid by Republican officials in Virginia to purge of potential non-citizens from the voter rolls there appears headed for the Supreme Court after a federal appeals court refused to disturb a lower court order that halted the effort and ordered some recently-removed voters restored.

In an unusual Sunday ruling, a unanimous panel of the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals largely rebuffed arguments from lawyers for Republican Gov. Glenn Youngkin that an injunction the Justice Department and civil rights groups obtained against the program from a lower-court judge Friday was legally flawed and would be too disruptive to administer in the just over a week remaining before Election Day….

A spokesperson for state Attorney General Jason Miyares, a Republican, said Virginia would file an immediate appeal with the Supreme Court….