Supreme Court agrees to take up part of Arizona proof-of-citizenship voter law dispute

The Supreme Court agreed Monday to take up a long-running dispute regarding a pair of Arizona voting laws that require Americans to provide proof of U.S. citizenship to vote.

The justices granted the Republican National Committee’s (RNC) request to review an appeals court decision that found the state laws at issue were preempted by the National Voter Registration Act of 1993, or NVRA, and blocked them from enforcement.

The lower court also ruled that the NVRA, which regulates voter registration for federal elections, prohibits Arizona from canceling the registration of suspected noncitizens within 90 days before an election.

The central questions are whether Arizona can demand that prospective voters submit documentary proof of U.S. citizenship, such as a birth certificate or passport, when registering with a state form and whether the state can implement a program to remove noncitizens from its voter rolls.

The Supreme Court is also set to weigh whether Arizona’s proof-of-citizenship requirement violates a 2018 consent decree between the secretary of state and the League of United Latin American Citizens, the largest Latino civil rights group........

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