The Wide-Open States of America. Ya’ll come!
This wasn’t part of the illegal immigration enforcement bills from a few years back but rather a voter imitative law put in place in 2004.
Ya tell people about CA Prop 187 and how the government burned their ballots and declared our free election illegal, and they say, "It won't happen here".
This is the reason why the country is lost...People just can't seem to figure out what is happening, right in front of their eyes.
The National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) requires States to“accept and use” a uniform federal form to register voters for federal elections. 42 U. S. C. §1973gg–4(a)(1). That “Federal Form,” developed by the federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC), requires only that an applicant aver, under penalty of perjury, that he is a citizen. Arizona law, however, requires voter-registration officials to“reject” any application for registration, including a Federal Form,that is not accompanied by documentary evidence of citizenship. Respondents, a group of individual Arizona residents and a group of nonprofit organizations, sought to enjoin that Arizona law. Ultimately, the District Court granted Arizona summary judgment on respondents’ claim that the NVRA pre-empts Arizona’s requirement. The Ninth Circuit affirmed in part but reversed as relevant here, holding that the state law’s documentary-proof-of-citizenship requirement is pre-empted by the NVRA.
Held: Arizona’s evidence-of-citizenship requirement, as applied to Federal Form applicants, is pre-empted by the NVRA’s mandate thatStates “accept and use” the Federal Form. Pp. 4–18.
I'm not surprosed that Scalia ruled the way that he did. Stripped of emotional debate, the case comes down to statutory interpretation of a federal statute. Scalia has a long history of giving ordinary meaning to ordinary words and phrases when interpreting statues even when the result is unpopular among conservates.
Note that while Scalia found that the federal statute does not allow states to add requirements to the registration form to prove citizenship, he also stated that states have the right to deny registration if they have independent information indicatng that the applicant for voter registration is not a citizen.
Lastly, Scalia simply interpreted a poorly written statute and let the chips fall where they may. It's not the job of the SCOTUS to rewrite bad legislation. Maybe when Rubio finishes tea-bagging Schummer, he can attach a rider to his amnesty bill that requres proof of citizenship to register to vote.
Thomas has the better argument.
Indiana has a great system for letting only registered voters cast a ballot, they should have copied ours word for word, it has already made it through the courts.
Read this headline on Drudge and declared sadly, America died....anarchy and chaos to reign now!
It’s official folks, we’ve lost our country. The only recourse is secession.
One of the stupidest decisions EVER!! They will live to regret it.
National suicide.
How did the court get around the common sense to agree that someone should be allowed to vote without proof that they are a legal citizen of the jurisdiction/district in which they are voting in? The law would have given us a more accurate result in an election.
It’s officially. over. The US Constiuttion is deceased, confirmed, dead.
The commies/mozzies/racists are giving the rest of us (the majority) no choice at all. The next steps will not be pretty.
So simply put, if the conservatives can take control of Congress, a small rider / amendment could be introduced to the Federal election laws that requires proof of citizenship and the time of registration or voting.
This would then be enforceable on all the states.
SCOTUS may have just done us a favor - if we can learn to win elections.
Look for more justifiable secession talk.
This is obscene. Glancing thru the opinion, I think it left open another way of getting to the same end...but only in a way that Obama could probably block.
Screw the Suprimes.
IMPEACH THE LOT!
We should ALL head into AZ next election and vote! If the Mexicans can do it then we can do it!
And yet no problem requiring it for any major service we need, bank accounts, insurance policies, and when your local jackbooted government thug demands it.
It is time to start ignoring the Supreme Court.
Go ahead SC, try to enforce your will. You have zero ability to.