The Supreme Court must be on the side of voting rights. Today’s decision is a bad omen.

Friends,

Sorry to intrude on your Wednesday, but the Supreme Court decided today to allow Virginia to resume purging names from its voter registration rolls. Virginia has purged 1,600 names in the last two months.

Republican officials claim it’s a legitimate effort to stop noncitizens from voting.

But there’s little or no evidence — in Virginia or anywhe…