Walter at his Substack:

An Aug. 29 policy statement from U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, the federal agency, says the agency will from now on bar nonpartisan groups such as the League of Women Voters from offering voter registration services at the end of CIS-hosted naturalization ceremonies.

The League of Women Voters, deploring the move, says it’s been offering voter registration at naturalization ceremonies “for decades.”

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If CIS has alleged that this process has been abused in some way, I’ve missed it.

Under the new policy, CIS will still invite state and local election agencies — and only them — to offer voter registration after ceremonies. The League, however, says those agencies often lack capacity to send personnel to the events and have been grateful for the help….

The new policy applies to so-called administrative naturalization ceremonies in which CIS officials are present. That includes not only those held at CIS facilities but also, so far as I can see, those at off-site locations that civic or government groups have made available for the occasion, such as civic centers and other public buildings, military bases, sporting events, fairs and so forth. CIS can and does place extensive conditions on the government and civic groups that make these venues available, so I assume it can probably impose its policy, or something close, in off-site locations that are not on CIS’s own property.

On the other hand, if I’m reading the newly revised CIS policy manual correctly, the new policy does not extend (see Footnote 1) to “judicial” naturalizations in which a federal, state, or local judge administers the oath of allegiance at a courthouse or elsewhere. If so, nonprofits can still register voters at those venues with host permission….