(Jacob Bruns, Headline USA) President Joe Biden’s Department of Justice has decided to press charges against the state of Arizona for a law requiring citizens of to prove their citizenship in the state before voting.
The Arizona H.B. 2492 bill would simply require that citizens provide proof of citizenship in order to vote in federal elections, Newsmax reported. The new law’s enactment could remove as many as 192,000 voters who cannot prove their citizenship.
But the DOJ used its magic bullet–the Civil Rights Act of 1964–alongside the 1993 the National Voter Registration Act to suggest that the state was violating federal law.
”For nearly three decades, the National Voter Registration Act has helped to move states in the right direction by eliminating unnecessary requirements that have historically made it harder for eligible voters to access the registration rolls,” Kristen Clarke, an assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division, said in a recent statement.
She also suggested that the state is causing problems by opposing progress.
”Arizona has passed a law that turns the clock back on progress by imposing unlawful and unnecessary requirements that would block eligible voters from the registration rolls for certain federal elections.”
Clark continued her tirade against the southwestern state, noting that Arizona has been a thorn in the side of the Biden DOJ, refusing to be ordered about by the federal bureaucracy.
”Arizona is a repeat offender when it comes to attempts to make it harder to register to vote,” she continued, citing the state’s own leftist bureaucrats as a an authority on voting integrity.
”Arizona’s own nonpartisan legislative council warns legislators that the NVRA preempts HB 2492’s documentary proof of citizenship requirements for applicants completing the federal form who seek to vote in federal elections.”
”Nonetheless, the Legislature ignored these warnings and enacted HB 2492 anyway.”
