Nearly half of all state attorneys general in the United States have filed amicus briefs with the Supreme Court in support of an emergency stay that would allow the state of Arizona to require U.S. citizenship to vote in federal elections.
The Arizona Republican Party said Thursday it had filed the emergency petition pending appeal from the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit “in support of HB 2492, our law requiring proof of citizenship to vote in presidential elections.”
Arizona law requires proof of citizenship for ballots even if they are mailed.
“The Constitution gives states the power to set voting requirements, and Arizona is leading the charge to ensure that ONLY CITIZENS vote in our elections,” the Arizona Republican Party tweeted. “This case has the potential to stop non-citizens from voting once and for all, which should have been the case from the beginning.”
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A voter drops off a ballot outside the Orange County Recorder’s Office in Santa Ana, California, Tuesday, March 5, 2024. (Photo by Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images)
The brief was supported by the attorneys general of 24 other states, including Texas, Florida, Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Utah and Virginia, along with the two states that filed the brief: Kansas and West Virginia.
The Dhillon Law Group filed the brief, arguing that the district court’s ruling is not supported by the Constitution and that it is legal for a state to require proof of citizenship to vote in elections.
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“The Court should therefore immediately stay the District Court’s injunction to the extent it interferes with Arizona’s constitutional power to choose how it appoints its presidential electors,” wrote Harmeet Dhillon, senior counsel for the legal group.
The nonpartisan group Honest Elections Project said states “have every right to require people to show proof of citizenship to vote by mail.” The group stated on its website that “we believe the Supreme Court should allow the Arizona law to go into effect and allow states to secure their own elections.”
Rolls of stickers reading “I Voted” are stored at the Maricopa County Tabulation and Elections Center (MCTEC) ahead of the 2024 Arizona primary and general election in Phoenix, Arizona, June 3, 2024. Maricopa County election workers have been repeatedly harassed and threatened since the 2020 U.S. election due to the spread of online misinformation about voter fraud. Officials are preparing for another onslaught of conspiracy theories in the 2024 presidential race by beefing up security and offering tours to the public at their vote tabulation facility in downtown Phoenix, Arizona. (Photo by PATRICK T. FALLON/AFP via Getty Images)
An emergency suspension request filed by the Republican National Committee argues that voter integrity is an “issue” that has gone unchecked, particularly with so many “illegal aliens” in the country.
“There is reason to believe that the problem of non-citizen voting has worsened, as the number of foreigners in the United States has clearly increased. One study suggests that in 2019 there were more than 11 million illegal immigrants in the country.”
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“Each of these foreigners represents another possibility for voter fraud, since each represents a probability, however small, that they will vote illegally. Add to that other potential sources of non-citizen voting, such as foreigners who are here legally but cannot vote or whose visas have expired, and the magnitude of the problem becomes clear.”
