Alaska’s Attorney General Treg Taylor has joined a group of 24 states in calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to ensure that noncitizens don’t vote in federal elections, in accordance with federal law.
The brief was filed in the case known as Republican National Committee v. Mi Familia Vota, asking the high court to hear the case and allow states to require that voters show proof of citizenship when they vote.
The law recently passed in Arizona is at the heart of the case. The law requires proof of citizenship in order to vote, but a federal district court judge has issued an injunction, which this coalition is attempting to have set aside.
The States “bear many of the consequences of unlawful immigration.” and for too long, “‘federal policies’
of nonenforcement” have left “the States helpless before those evil effects,” the amicus brief states in its introduction. “One of those effects is voter fraud” which “drives honest citizens out of the democratic process and breeds distrust of our government.”
There is every reason to believe “this problem of non-citizen voting has gotten worse, as the number of illegal immigrants in the United States has undeniably grown… Each of those illegal aliens represents another possible opening for voter fraud, for each represents a probability – no matter how small – that they will vote illegally,” the attorneys general state.
The brief was filed by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton, who argues the Biden-Harris Administration “intentionally flooded our country with illegal aliens. Without proper safeguards, foreign nationals can and will illegally influence elections at the local, state, and national level. States have a constitutional right and responsibility to ensure that only legal votes from American citizens are counted.”
Attorneys general signing onto 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.
