PHOENIX – On Tuesday, the Arizona Attorney General’s Office filed a Motion to Intervene with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in the Democratic National Committee lawsuit challenging Arizona’s ban on ballot harvesting and statutes regulating out-of-precinct voting.
In February, the Ninth Circuit granted Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich’s motion to stay the Court’s mandate in the DNC v. Hobbs case which is centered around Arizona’s ban on ballot harvesting and the law regarding out-of-precinct voting.
Before the 2016 election, the U.S. Supreme Court stayed the Ninth Circuit’s election-eve injunction against the enforcement of Arizona’s prohibition on ballot harvesting and out-of-precinct voting following a lawsuit filed by the Democratic National Committee, the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee, and the Arizona Democratic Party. The State then prevailed at trial.
The stay will remain in place until the U.S. Supreme Court has a chance to hear the appeal of the case.
According to the Motion, Brnovich intervened to assure that the State’s interest in retaining its “broad authority to structure and regulate elections is fully preserved.” Brnovich was forced to intervene on behalf of the State because Secretary of State Hobbs is refusing to defend the laws through the appeal process.
Brnovich moved to intervene in order to ensure there is no possible procedural hindrance to Supreme Court review of the matter.
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