Kansas and Arizona residents can continue to register to vote for now using a federal form without having to provide proof of citizenship, a federal appeals court ruled Thursday.
The 10th Circuit Court of Appeals temporarily stayed a ruling from U.S. District Judge Eric Melgren that orders the U.S. Election Assistance Commission to modify its federal voter registration form to add special instructions for Arizona and Kansas residents about those states' proof-of-citizenship requirements.
Circuit Judges Carlos Lucero and Jerome Holmes granted the emergency stay sought Thursday by the commission and voting rights groups, a day after Melgren rejected a similar request to suspend his ruling during the appeal. Melgren had ordered the commission on Wednesday to carry out "without further delay" his March 19 directive.
The temporary halt is in effect until further order from the appeals court. The 10th Circuit judges gave Kansas and Arizona until Tuesday to respond to the commission's request to suspend the ruling during the appeal.
In addition to the stay, the commission also asked the court Thursday to consider its appeal of the decision itself on an expedited basis, preferably in a special session this summer.
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2 comments:
Article 1, Sections 2 & 3, and Amendment 14, section 2 clearly put the elections in the hands of the individual States. Amendment 14, Ss2 also clearly requires voters to be State citizens and denies the Fed any power over that.
Nowhere in the Constitution gives power to Federal courts over State elections, so the Tenth Amendment applies to this ruling, as in NOT VALID!
I'm glad I learned to read. I wish the Feds could learn, too.
Looks like Ob's Czars visited the judge...
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