TALLAHASSEE, Fla.—Attorney General Ashley Moody has filed an amicus brief alongside 23 other state attorneys general, urging the Supreme Court of the United States to hear Republican National Committee v. Mi Familia Vota. The coalition seeks confirmation that states can establish rules governing their own elections, including requiring voters to show proof of citizenship.
Attorney General Ashley Moody stated, “In Border Czar Harris’s America, where more than 10 million illegal immigrants have been given a free pass into our country, proof-of-citizenship requirements are a simple, common-sense protection for the integrity of our elections. Florida requires an ID to cast a ballot, and this week, we joined 23 other states to ask SCOTUS to hear a vital case about citizenship for voter registration.”
The brief contends that the National Voter Registration Act does not prevent states from ensuring only citizens register to vote and does not preempt a state's right to regulate its presidential elections or restrict how states conduct elections.
Many states, including Florida, mandate that voters be United States citizens. However, courts have limited states' authority to secure their own elections. “Voting by noncitizens, both legal and illegal, is real. The typical rejoinder is to claim that few noncitizens vote. On its own terms, though, the answer at least acknowledges that the problem persists. But it also ignores that even small voting blocs can have outsized effects on electoral outcomes. That effect is most obvious in local elections,” reads the brief.
Attorney General Moody is joined on the amicus brief by attorneys general from Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, 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.
Read the full amicus brief here.