The courtroom is shaping up to be one of the most important battlefields in the election.
Democrats are pulling out all the stops to win.
And Clarence Thomas got a dire warning from Florida about this terrifying 2024 threat.
Supreme Court asked to stop noncitizens from voting
Allowing only American citizens to vote in elections should be a common-sense position for politicians from both parties.
But Democrats have been fighting that idea tooth and nail this year.
A group of 24 states asked the Supreme Court to rule that noncitizens cannot vote in elections.
They filed a brief backing an Arizona law that requires proof of citizenship to vote.
Arizona passed a law in 2022 that required all voters to provide documents to prove citizenship to be able to vote.
Mi Familia Vota, a left-wing activist group, sued to stop the law by claiming that the National Voter Registration Act prevents a state from using a citizenship requirement.
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody wrote in the brief that the threat of noncitizens voting is real.
“However, courts have chipped away at the states’ authority to secure their own elections,” Moody wrote. “Voting by noncitizens, both legal and illegal, is real. The typical rejoinder is to claim that few noncitizens vote. On its own terms, though, the answer at least acknowledges that the problem persists. But it also ignores that even small voting blocs can have outsized effects on electoral outcomes. That effect is most obvious in local elections.”
The brief argues that the National Voter Registration Act does not override state law.
Republican attorneys general from Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and West Virginia signed on to the brief.
The surge in illegal immigration from the Biden-Harris border crisis was cited as a concern.
“There is every reason to believe this problem of non-citizen voting has gotten worse, as the number of illegal immigrants in the United States has undeniably grown… Each of those illegal aliens represents another possible opening for voter fraud, for each represents a probability – no matter how small – that they will vote illegally,” the brief states.
Supreme Court delivers a partial victory to keep noncitizens from voting
The Supreme Court issued a 5-4 ruling that allowed Arizona to enforce parts of its law requiring proof of citizenship to vote after an emergency request from the Republican National Committee (RNC).
Arizona is allowed to require proof of citizenship when a standard voter registration form is submitted.
But it cannot be required for mail voting, or for Presidential voting.
Republican National Committee chairman Michael Whatley called the ruling a “seismic win in the fight to stop non-citizens from voting.”
The legal fight is still ongoing over the law.
A three-judge panel with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals is hearing an appeal of a lower court ruling blocking the law from going into effect.
It will take a messy legal battle to enforce a law that should be common sense.
DeSantis Daily will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this ongoing story.
