This week, the Republican National Committee (RNC) filed a cert petition urging the Supreme Court of the United States to uphold and enforce Arizona’s commonsense documentary proof-of-citizenship requirement for voter registration.
“Over two decades ago, Arizona voters overwhelmingly approved a commonsense law requiring documentary proof of citizenship to vote,” said RNC Chairman Joe Gruters. “It is unacceptable that, more than 20 years later, the RNC must still step in to defend the clear will of Arizonans against the Democratic Party and leftist advocacy groups. Federal law is clear: only U.S. citizens have the right to vote in American elections. The RNC will never stop fighting to protect our democracy and the integrity of every Arizona voter’s ballot.”
In 2004, Arizona voters passed Proposition 200, which mandates that residents provide satisfactory evidence of U.S. citizenship when registering to vote for the first time.
The current case stems from Arizona’s 2022 election integrity law, House Bill 2492, which safeguards the state’s voter registration process by ensuring only eligible U.S. citizens can register to vote.
This law empowers state officials to verify citizenship, allows them to remove non-citizens from its rolls, and restores trust in Arizona election processes.
In August 2024, the Supreme Court of the United States correctly allowed Arizona to continue enforcing this law.
In October 2024, the Supreme Court permitted the Commonwealth of Virginia to remove non-citizens from its rolls leading up to the 2024 election.
In February 2025, the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ignored the Supreme Court’s direction in both the Arizona and Virginia cases and sided with the Democratic National Committee and advocacy groups like Mi Familia Vota by upholding a block on key provisions of Arizona’s 2022 election integrity laws.
Republicans say this panel decision “undermines Arizona’s constitutional authority to secure its own elections.”
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