Republicans are calling on the United States Supreme Court to allow Arizona to enforce its proof of citizenship requirements ahead of the critical November presidential election.
The nation’s highest court is being asked to allow enforcement of sections of an Arizona law requiring documented proof of citizenship to cast a ballot in the presidential election, including voting by mail.
State GOP lawmakers and the Republican National Committee (RNC) have filed an emergency appeal with Justice Elena Kagan.
Kagan has jurisdiction over time-sensitive applications from Arizona.
The justice has the discretion to act alone or bring in her eight colleagues to decide the case.
The case is Republican National Committee v. Mi Familia Vota.
Kagan will likely ask opponents of the law to weigh in with written briefs.
Those briefs would be due in the coming days.
A federal judge had blocked enforcement of the law, however.
The ruling prompted the appeal to the high court for temporary relief.
The now-stalled 2022 state law requiring proof of citizenship was challenged by the Arizona Democratic Party and civil rights groups.
A 2013 Supreme Court ruling previously limited when states could impose such restrictions when voting in federal elections.
A high court order