By Howard Fischer | Capitol Media Services
Key Points:
- Trump administration asks U.S. Supreme Court to let Arizona block voters without proof of citizenship
- Arizona wants to regularly check voter rolls and purge non-citizens from registration
- Arizona’s 2022 voter ID law was blocked by lower courts from taking effect
The Trump administration is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow Arizona to block people who do not provide “documented proof of citizenship” from registering to vote for president.
And it wants to clear the way for Arizona to be able to regularly check — and purge — voter rolls of those who other databases say are not citizens.
In a new filing, the Department of Justice is asking the high court to overturn lower court rulings which restricted the ability of the state to enforce certain requirements for citizenship and residency. The federal attorneys also want to pave the way for county election officials to purge voter registration rolls of those who they say “were never eligible to register in the first place.”
