Supreme Court takes up case about Arizona’s proof of cit­i­zen­ship require­ment for vot­er reg­is­tra­tion

The Supreme Court agreed on Mon­day to take up a case involv­ing a pair of elec­tion-integri­ty laws in Ari­zona, includ­ing a require­ment to show proof of cit­i­zen­ship for a state vot­er reg­is­tra­tion form.The high court will hear the case Repub­li­can Nation­al Com­mit­tee v. Mi Famil­ia Vota in its next term, which will deal with two key ques­tions about Ari­zona elec­tion law. The first ques­tion pre­sent­ed to the jus­tices asks whether either the Nation­al Vot­er Reg­is­tra­tion Act or a fed­er­al con­sent decree pro­hibits the state from ask­ing for proof of cit­i­zen­ship when using a state form to reg­is­ter to vote, while the sec­ond ques­tion asks whether the NVRA bars Ari­zona from check­ing for and clean­ing its vot­er rolls of nonci­t­i­zens with­in 90 days of a fed­er­al election.The RNC asked the Supreme Court in Feb­ru­ary to hear the case, implor­ing the jus­tices to reverse a fed­er­al appeals court rul­ing that it claims “thwart­ed both mech­a­nisms for enforc­ing Arizona’s cit­i­zen­ship qual­i­fi­ca­tion.”
“For years, Ari­zona has tak­en com­mon-sense steps to enforce its cit­i­zen­ship qual­i­fi­ca­tion and secure its elec­tions,” the peti­tion from the RNC said. “Each time, it has had to defend those steps fr …