The Supreme Court added insult to injury when they
reaffirmed what many of us have come to believe and that is the federal
government does not value American citizenship.
Arizona passed a law requiring proof of citizenship
when registering voters. The Supreme
Court refused to hear this case. Here is
an excerpt from Roll Call:
The case, Kobach, et al. v. Election Assistance Commission, et
al., was about whether Arizona and Kansas could require voters to prove their
citizenship when registering to vote with the so-called “federal form.”
Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach led the suit against the U.S. Election
Assistance Commission, which was an appeal of a lower court decision.
Both Kansas and
Arizona have state laws that require applicants to prove their citizenship
when applying to vote with state forms (for state or federal elections). But
the U.S. EAC denied the states’ requests to have their citizenship laws applied
when would-be voters use the standardized federal form
Here is the
real reason the federal courts ruled against Arizona:
By not hearing the case, the Supreme Court effectively upheld
the decision of the 10th Circuit Court of Appeals, which ruled against Arizona and Kansas in November 2014, saying
the EAC did not have to modify its form to meet state laws. Under the federal
form, would-be voters need only swear under penalty of perjury that they are
citizens.
“This is a very big deal,” University of
California Irvine Law Professor Rick Hasen wrote on his
election law blog Monday.
“Kobach had the potential to shift more power away from the federal government
in administering elections toward the states,” he added.
Forget the integrity of the vote, or the value of
citizenship; it’s all about the federal government’s power over the
States. That seems about right.
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