The Supreme Court turned away Virginia’s appeal on Monday that sought to quash a challenge to the state’s lifetime felon voting ban, allowing the lawsuit to move ahead toward trial.

Two disenfranchised voters claim the ban violates the Virginia Readmission Act, a federal law that set conditions for Virginia to regain congressional representation following the Civil War.

Lower courts allowed the suit to move forward, saying courts can enforce the Readmission Act and the state doesn’t have 11th Amendment immunity. But Virginia’s Republican-controlled attorney general’s office argued to the justices that would open the “floodgates” and mark a “radical change in the law.”

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