Supreme Court's conservative justices leave in place Virginia's purge of voter registrations

They may mean that the phrasing makes SCOTUS sound passive, when they are arguably being 'active' in this by overturning a lower court's ruling.

I'm honestly not sure how that contradicts what I was trying to say there, but yeah as for my source the next paragraph of the same article

The [supreme court] justices acted on Virginia’s appeal after a federal judge found that the state illegally purged more than 1,600 voter registrations in the past two months [and told Virginia to put them back and allow them to vote like they would have been in the first place]. A federal appeals court had previously allowed the judge’s order to remain in effect.

So to recap, these voters were registered, Virginia tried to purge them less than 90 days before an election, a federal court told them to stop that and return things to normal, and the supreme court said "no, don't stop," so the AP headline that basically says "supreme court stops stop" seems overly convoluted to me and like it's kind of burying the lede here