U.S. District Judge Patricia Giles has shut down the audit of the voter rolls ordered by Gov. Glenn Youngkin in August.

“Let’s be clear about what just happened: only eleven days before a Presidential election, a federal judge ordered Virginia to reinstate over 1,500 individuals–who self-identified themselves as noncitizens–back onto the voter rolls,” Youngkin said in a statement. “Almost all these individuals had previously presented immigration documents confirming their noncitizen status, a fact recently verified by federal authorities.”

During arguments October 24, the Department of Justice claimed the state of Virginia violated a provision of the National Voting Rights Act preventing systematic voter purges less than 90 days from a federal election. The state responded that Youngkin’s August 7 executive order was not “systematic” but was an enforcement of routine record keeping.

Lawyers for the Department of Justice made the case that any updates to the voter rolls within the 90-day window qualified as “systematic.”

Youngkin’s office has pointed out that over the last two years nearly 80,000 deceased voters were purged from the rolls along with 6,303 noncitizens who were illegally registered to vote.

Virginia has announced they will seek an immediate appeal.

“Virginia will immediately petition the Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals and, if necessary, the U.S. Supreme Court, for an emergency stay of the injunction,” Youngkin said.

“The outrageous decision goes against the very bedrock of our democracy,” Trump said.

The Wall Street Journal editorial board released a statement declaring “Virginia is for Non-Citizen voters.”