Alaska Attorney General Treg Taylor has joined a group of 24 states in asking the U.S. Supreme Court to ensure that noncitizens are barred from voting in federal elections under federal law.
The brief was filed in the case known as Republican National Committee vs. Mi Familia Votaand asked the Supreme Court to hear the case and allow states to require voters to show proof of citizenship when casting their ballots.
The case centers on a law recently passed in Arizona that requires proof of citizenship in order to vote. However, a federal district judge has issued a temporary restraining order that this coalition is now seeking to have lifted.
The states “bear many of the consequences of illegal immigration.” And for too long, “‘federal policy’
of non-enforcement” have “left states helpless in the face of these dire consequences,” the amicus curiae brief states in its introduction. “One of these consequences is electoral fraud,” which “drives honest citizens away from the democratic process and breeds distrust in our government.”
There is every reason to believe that “the problem of noncitizen voting has become worse as the number of illegal immigrants in the United States has undeniably increased… Each of these illegal immigrants represents another opportunity for voter fraud because each of them has a chance, no matter how remote, of voting illegally,” the attorneys general explain.
The order was filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who argues that the Biden-Harris administration “has intentionally flooded our country with illegal aliens. Without adequate protections, foreign nationals can and will illegally influence elections at the local, state, and federal levels. States have a constitutional right and responsibility to ensure that only legal votes cast by American citizens are counted.”
The attorneys general who signed the brief include Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia.
