On Thursday, six of the seven justices on New York’s Court of Appeals struck down New York City’s law, which would have given more than 800,000 non-citizens with permanent residency or are eligible to work the right to vote in local elections.

Chief Judge Rowan Wilson, writing for the majority, said the New York state constitution does not allow local legislative enactments and those of the state legislature to allow noncitizens to vote.

New York State's top court on Thursday struck down a New York City law that would have permitted more than 800,000 legal non-citizens to vote in municipal elections. In a 6-1 decision, the Court of Appeals ruled that the law,