The Court of Appeals upheld a lower-court ruling that had declared unconstitutional the city’s bid to allow noncitizens to vote.

In the final days of New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s administration, the city council approved a law that would have granted municipal voting rights to over 800,000 newly arrived residents, and neither de Blasio nor his successor, Eric Adams, chose to veto the law, resulting in its automatic enactment in 2022.

After a legal battle spanning nearly four years, New York’s top court on Thursday struck down a city law as unconstitutional that would’ve expanded the right to vote in local elections