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Biden DOJ Asks SCOTUS To Keep Arizona From Requiring Proof Of Citizenship For 2024 Election
The Federalist ^ | 08/20/2024 | Shawn Fleetwood

Posted on 08/20/2024 9:09:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind

The Biden-Harris Department of Justice (DOJ) on Friday requested the U.S. Supreme Court “deny” Republicans’ bid to enforce an Arizona law requiring individuals to prove they’re U.S. citizens when registering and voting in elections.

Arguing on behalf of the administration, U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar requested that the nation’s highest court instead allow a lower court decision — one prohibiting the implementation of provisions of the statute in question — to remain in effect for the November election.

As The Federalist previously reported, the 2022 law mandated residents to show documentary proof of citizenship (DPOC) when registering via state voter registration forms. The statute also required such proof for individuals submitting mail-in ballots and voting in presidential contests.

(In Arizona, individuals who do not provide DPOC when registering to vote are permitted to do so as “federal-only voters” and cast ballots in federal elections).

The Republican National Committee and Arizona’s GOP legislative leadership filed an emergency application with the Supreme Court on Aug. 8, asking the justices to place a stay on the lower 9th Circuit Court’s decision and allow the law’s DPOC requirements to take effect for the 2024 election. Nearly half the country’s state attorneys general and several conservative organizations have since filed amicus briefs with the high court requesting a stay be issued.

In the DOJ’s Friday filing, Prelogar claimed “applicants are not entitled to a stay” and encouraged the court to “deny” such a request. Specifically, she argued that “judicial intervention at this stage would undermine the orderly administration of the election, risking the disfranchisement of thousands of voters who have already registered to vote using the federal form.”

The Biden-Harris administration was among several left-wing parties to sue Arizona over the law shortly after its passage in 2022.

According to AZ Free News, more than 11,600 individuals voted via “federal-only” ballots during the Grand Canyon State’s 2020 election. That’s larger than Joe Biden’s margin of victory (10,457 votes) over Donald Trump.

The DOJ’s claims mirror those issued by Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes, a Democrat, who argued in her motion opposing applicants’ request that allowing the law to take effect would be “destabilizing.” Legal counsel representing Secretary of State Adrian Fontes, also a Democrat, similarly filed a motion asking SCOTUS to “deny” the emergency application.

[RELATED: Ballots Cast Without Proof Of Citizenship ‘Exploded’ After Lawfare Crippled Arizona Election Laws]

Justice Elena Kagan is the “circuit justice” tasked with handling emergency stay applications from western states. She can “grant or deny the application on her own, or she can refer it to the full court for all of the justices to vote on it,” according to SCOTUSblog.

The issuance of a stay would then require approval from at least five justices.


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Arizona
KEYWORDS: arizona; arrestgarland; arrestmayorkas; cheating; doj; elizabethprelogar; fraud; id; rigging; treason; voting

1 posted on 08/20/2024 9:09:50 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

The RATS admitting that they can’t win if they can’t cheat. Lousy turd rolling maggots.


2 posted on 08/20/2024 9:11:37 AM PDT by FlingWingFlyer (The Banana Voo Doo Queen is putting illegal scumbags on a Free Ride on the American Dream Express.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Why not?

Let’s send mail-in ballots to everyone in Russia and China too!

The United States of a Globica!


3 posted on 08/20/2024 9:12:58 AM PDT by z3n (Kakistocracy)
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To: SeekAndFind

Just great — Kagan gets to decide if SCOTUS will take this case.


4 posted on 08/20/2024 9:16:41 AM PDT by ProtectOurFreedom (“When exposing a crime is treated like a crime, you are being ruled by criminals” – Edward Snowden)
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To: SeekAndFind

The Biden DOJ again gives aid and comfort to the domestic and foreign enemies of the United States.


5 posted on 08/20/2024 9:19:43 AM PDT by Carl Vehse
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To: SeekAndFind

bump


6 posted on 08/20/2024 9:23:13 AM PDT by lasereye
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To: z3n

“Let’s send mail-in ballots to everyone in Russia and China too! The United States of a Globica!”

Ballots? That’s so 20th century. Online voting with no walls, no passwords, no ID, no guns, no money, no gender, no freedom, no life. The government will provide. Or it won’t.


7 posted on 08/20/2024 9:24:45 AM PDT by plain talk
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To: SeekAndFind

If Kagan denys the USSC hearing it, can we then ask for an ‘en banc’ review by more justices or the full court?


8 posted on 08/20/2024 9:25:05 AM PDT by desertsolitaire ( )
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To: SeekAndFind
Biden DOJ Asks SCOTUS To Keep Arizona From Requiring Proof Of Citizenship For 2024 Election

That's a direct admission that democrats depend greatly on the illegal voters for elections. No two ways about it. Meanwhile, it's republicans who depend on the lawfully registered voters for their elections.

But, democrats cannot depend on just the voters who have IDs, because, that would dwindle the number of votes they get.

SCOTUS allowing voters with no IDs would be the same as allowing heavy cheating during elections. SCOTUS has to allow the Arizona law to take effect, and they need to go further and insist that all states required voter IDs. Voting is not just a states' decision, since ii impacts the federal elections and federal decisions at all levels. Even the nominations of Supreme Court judges hinges on having only people with voter IDs doing the voting.
9 posted on 08/20/2024 9:34:25 AM PDT by adorno (CCH)
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To: SeekAndFind

Harris-Walz CANNOT WIN without the ILLEGAL ALIEN VOTE.


10 posted on 08/20/2024 9:36:30 AM PDT by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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To: SeekAndFind

If foreigners can vote in U.S. federal elections, THERE IS NO USA ANYMORE !


11 posted on 08/20/2024 9:38:03 AM PDT by Gnome1949
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To: SeekAndFind

Got that bad feeling about Gorsucks and Robots on this issue...
Would not be shocking to see them cross to the dark side once again...
The communists will be prepping all those threats they have been holding over their heads...


12 posted on 08/20/2024 9:51:38 AM PDT by SuperLuminal ( Where is Samuel Adams when we so desperately need him)
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To: ProtectOurFreedom; desertsolitaire

Odds are that Pence o’ Schiff JohnRoberts would do his damnedest to block it anyway.

“It’s “political.” claimed the sb


13 posted on 08/20/2024 12:28:50 PM PDT by A strike ("Rise Peter, kill and eat.")
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To: FlingWingFlyer

Not requiring citizenship to vote sounds absolutely insane to me. Between this & having no borders is a shortcut to losing existence as America.


14 posted on 08/20/2024 6:13:45 PM PDT by oldtech
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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15 posted on 08/20/2024 6:35:13 PM PDT by bitt (<img src=' 'width=30%>)
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To: bitt
We'll get to see if States can run their own elections.
Kagan is caught in a catch 22.
The State legislature passed the law. A SC ruling might strip the State of the power to run their own election, essentially Federalizing the election.

JMO, YMMV

16 posted on 08/20/2024 6:42:56 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: bitt
Upholding the 9th's decision SURELY Federalizes elections as it stands now as it bucks the election law enacted by a State.

Again, JMO.

17 posted on 08/20/2024 6:49:32 PM PDT by philman_36 (Pride breakfasted with plenty, dined with poverty and supped with infamy. Benjamin Franklin)
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To: SeekAndFind

IOW, the fix is already in for AZ.


18 posted on 08/21/2024 6:43:02 AM PDT by bgill
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To: SeekAndFind

BTTT


19 posted on 08/22/2024 9:10:53 AM PDT by Enlightened1
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