The National Voter Registration Act requires US states to complete any purge of ineligible voters from registration lists up to 90 days before a federal election.
The Supreme Court has cleared the way for a Republican-led effort to remove more than 1,600 voters from Virginia's voter rolls.
In August - with exactly 90 days until election day - Virginia Governor Glenn Youngkin signed an executive order to expedite the removal of non-citizens from the state's voter rolls. Non-US citizens are ineligible from voting in federal elections.
The Justice Department sued the state in October, arguing that some eligible voters had been removed, which would violate federal law.
The National Voter Registration Act requires states to complete any purge of ineligible voters from registration lists up to 90 days before a federal election.
The Supreme Court has granted the state's request to pause a lower court's order which had blocked the voter removal programme.
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