Democrats are trying to push the envelope to get Kamala Harris across the finish line.
That is landing them in a courtroom.
And a Supreme Court justice handed Florida one big win for 2024 that Democrats will hate.
Florida celebrates Supreme Court ruling in key swing state
Arizona is one of the seven swing states that will determine who wins the Presidential Election this November.
President Joe Biden carried the state by roughly 10,000 votes in the 2020 Election.
The Arizona State Legislature passed a law requiring documented proof of American citizenship to be able to register to vote in 2022.
Left-wing activist groups and the Biden administration sued to block the law from going into effect.
They claimed that requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote violated the National Voter Registration Act.
District Judge Susan Bolton, who was appointed by former President Bill Clinton, sided with the Biden administration and blocked the law.
An appeals court declined to overturn her ruling.
The Republican National Committee filed an emergency appeal with the Supreme Court to intervene.
In a 5-4 decision, the Supreme Court gave Republicans a partial victory in Arizona.
Justice Amy Coney Barrett sided with the three Democrat-appointed justices in the case.
State voter registration forms will require documented proof of citizenship, but separate federal election registration forms will not have the requirement.
Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody celebrated the ruling after she filed a brief with the Supreme Court asking them to uphold the law.
“SCOTUS on the emergency docket reinstates an Arizona law requiring voters to provide proof of citizenship on their voter registration forms,” Moody said. “Proud to have fought with my counterparts in other states to support this critical election-integrity measure.”
Florida led a multi-state coalition asking for citizenship requirement for voter registration
Moody and 23 other Republican state attorneys general had filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court in support of Arizona’s law.
The brief argued that states should be allowed to make their own election laws and have the ability to ask for citizenship from voters.
“In Border Czar Harris’s America, where more than 10 million illegal immigrants have been given a free pass into our country, proof-of-citizenship requirements are a simple, common-sense protection for the integrity of our elections,” Moody said. “Florida requires an ID to cast a ballot, and this week, we joined 23 other states to ask SCOTUS to hear a vital case about citizenship for voter registration.”
The brief warned that noncitizens are voting in elections.
“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,” the brief stated.
The Supreme Court’s ruling opens the door for other states to ask for citizenship for voter registration.
DeSantis Daily will keep you up-to-date on any new developments in this ongoing story.
