PHOENIX — The Trump administration is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow Arizona to block people who do not provide “documented proof of citizenship” when they registered from voting for president.
And it wants to clear the way for Arizona to be able to regularly check — and purge — voter rolls of those who other databases say are not citizens.
In a new filing, the Department of Justice is telling the high court there are reasons for the justices to get involved and overturn lower court rulings that have restricted the ability of the state to enforce certain requirements to prove both citizenship and residency. The federal attorneys also wants to pave the way for county election officials to purge voter registration rolls of those who they say “were never eligible to register in the first place.”
