David S. Leibowitz
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Oct 9, 2026
Keegan BillingsHOST
Meanwhile, the Trump administration is facing legal challenges as it takes action against non-citizens illegally casting votes.
Keegan BillingsHOST
In one case on October 1st, US District Judge David Leibowitz in Florida dismissed a case against a Jamaican woman who had voted in a federal election despite being a non-citizen.
Keegan BillingsHOST
In his opinion, Judge Leibowitz wrote that except for very specific constitutional provisions, Congress has no power to say who can vote or who cannot vote in federal elections.
Keegan BillingsHOST
According to the judge, that foundational power is reserved for the states and limits Congress.
Richie L.HOST
This has been reported by Elaine Mallin, Fox News.
Richie L.HOST
It's U.S. District Judge David Leibowitz.
Richie L.HOST
I need to dismiss some charges here.
Richie L.HOST
He's a Biden-appointed judge and is being labeled an activist judge by many critics after deciding that the federal government application of a law barring non-citizens from voting in elections violates the Constitution in a federal criminal case.
Richie L.HOST
Democrats pretend we don't need the SAVE Act because non-citizen voting is already illegal, while activist judges try to destroy laws banning non-citizens from voting, unquote.
Richie L.HOST
Hans von Spakovsky, a senior legal fellow with Advancing American Freedom, agreed that Leibowitz's decision will most likely be squashed by the 11th Circuit Court of Appeals.
Richie L.HOST
Judge David Leibowitz's opinion that the federal law bars illegal aliens for voting as unconstitutional is apparently wrong.
Richie L.HOST
He's right on that, and I'll show you.
Tony KinnettHOST
I was on a delegation, a media delegation over there, and they had their news reporters who were the proudest of in the country.
Tony KinnettHOST
They sat up at the front in the King David in Jerusalem, and they took our questions.
Tony KinnettHOST
And one of the things I argued with them about was the media outlets they talked to.
Tony KinnettHOST
The other thing I argued with them about, and also with a village right next to the border with the Gaza Strip, they were very adamant that no one involved that was coming over to pick crops in the fields and stuff was involved with October 7th.
Tony KinnettHOST
So that's not necessarily what he ruled, to be fair.
Tony KinnettHOST
He just ruled the federal government couldn't prosecute people on that.
Tony KinnettHOST
This guy's name, I didn't look it up earlier, Judge David Seymour Leibowitz.
Tony KinnettHOST
What do I think is going to happen? I think an appeals court's going to overturn it.
Lynn WoolleyHOST
Judge says the federal law banning non-citizen voting is unconstitutional.
Lynn WoolleyHOST
That's Miami-based U.S. District Judge David S. Leibowitz.
Lynn WoolleyHOST
He's ruled in a 31-page order that the criminal case against Chelsea Cox, who was charged in October 2025 with a misdemeanor for illegally voting in 2020, must be dismissed.
Lynn WoolleyHOST
He said a decades-old federal law that prohibits a non-U.S. citizen from voting is unconstitutional.
Eric ColumbusPANELIST
And she was charged with a misdemeanor, a violation of the statute, and was convicted, and she appealed her conviction.
Eric ColumbusPANELIST
And, uh, the case was before Judge, uh, David Leibowitz, who is a, uh, Biden appointee, uh, with a bit of an interesting backstory.
Eric ColumbusPANELIST
He, in, in, in district court nominations, you, the, uh, they go forward in the Senate only if the senators return what is known as a blue slip, meaning that they, the home state senators, uh, sign off on the, on the nomination.
Eric ColumbusPANELIST
And he is the nephew of a billionaire benefactor of Marco Rubio.
Allison GillHOST
Next up from Fox 26 in Florida, a judge ruled that a federal law banning non-citizen voting is unconstitutional, dismissing a case to get... a case against an illegal immigrant who allegedly voted in the 2020 election.
Allison GillHOST
US District Judge David Leibowitz for the Southern District of Florida, a Biden appointee, on Thursday threw out a federal charge of illegal voting against Chelsea Michelle Ann Cox, a Jamaican national, who allegedly cast a ballot in the 2020 presidential election.
Allison GillHOST
Federal prosecutors alleged Cox knowingly voted in Broward County on October 29th, 2020, in a misdemeanor charge filed against her last year.
Allison GillHOST
Cox allegedly overstayed a tourist visa using a fake US Virgin Islands birth certificate to obtain identification and register to vote.
Nick ReedHOST
Now, you heard that right.
Nick ReedHOST
In a thirty-one-page ruling, U.S. District Judge David Leibowitz of the Southern District of Florida dismissed federal charges against Chelsea Cox, a woman from Jamaica who voted in the 2020 presidential election despite not being a U.S. citizen.
Nick ReedHOST
The ruling comes as the Trump administration has intensified efforts to prevent non-citizens from voting, including through federal prosecutions and attempts to verify citizenship on state voter rolls, sparking legal battles with Democrat-led states and voting rights groups.
Nick ReedHOST
C-Can, can we finally just dismiss this notion that Democrats don't want illegals voting in our elections? Can, can, can we move past that? I know for a while Democrats were very vocal in their claims that, "We don't want-- We only want people who are allowed to legally vote legally.
Cam EdwardsHOST
This involves a Jamaican national named Chelsea Cox, who was charged with illegally voting in the 2020 election last year.
Cam EdwardsHOST
But U.S. District Judge David Leibowitz dismissed the case, saying that the Constitution gives the states, not Congress, the authority to establish voter qualifications.
Cam EdwardsHOST
So according to the judge, Congress exceeded its constitutional authority when it passed this federal statute, making it a federal misdemeanor for a non-citizen to vote.
Cam EdwardsHOST
The judge said that Florida prosecutors could potentially prosecute Cox under state law, but that the federal government cannot prosecute her under this federal statute.
George GerboHOST
The Trump administration has announced an appeal of a federal judge's ruling that Congress lacks the power to bar non-citizens from casting ballots in federal elections.
George GerboHOST
Judge David Leibowitz's decision applies only to the single criminal case before him, but Stephen Dinan reports his reasoning, if it stands, could undercut dozens of criminal cases the Trump administration has brought against non-citizens for casting ballots.
George GerboHOST
Leibowitz, a Biden appointee to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, said the Constitution gives states the authority to determine voter qualifications, and states generally bar non-citizens from voting.
George GerboHOST
The Senate race in South Carolina is so unusual this year that Democrats think they have a shot to win the seat.
Jack WindsorHOST
That means for Congress.
Jack WindsorHOST
The judge is David Leibowitz, Southern District of Florida, of course, appointed by Sleepy Joe Biden.
Jack WindsorHOST
The case is against Chelsea Cox, a Jamaican national living in the country illegally.
Jack WindsorHOST
Federal prosecutors charged her last October with voting in the 2020 presidential election.
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