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 on enforcement in the Arizona case is expected in the coming days or weeks.
This comes as Vice President Kamala Harris, the Democrat presidential nominee, is planning a rally in the state on Friday with her disgraced running mate Gov. Tim Walz.
Harris and Walz will appear later Friday in the key election battleground.
Meanwhile, concerns have been raised about the security of America’s elections following a bombshell indictment in Florida.
As Slay News reported, the president of voting machine software company Smartmatic has been indicted on multiple federal charges over an international bribery scheme.
Smartmatic was a the center of voter fraud allegations following the 2020 election after it was alleged that the company’s voting software was used to rig fake votes on voting machines.
The company even successfully sued conservative news outlets that reported on the allegations while the liberal corporate media insisted the company and its software are “secure.”
The “trusted” company’s software is used on voting machines all around the world to supposedly “secure” elections.
On Thursday, Smartmatic’s founder and president, Roger Piñate, was indicted by a federal grand jury in the Southern District of Florida on charges involving a bribery and money-laundering scheme used to secure elections contracts in the Philippines.
President Donald Trump previously accused Smartmatic of allowing its software to be hacked to rig votes.
Trump believes that Smartmatic was used to steal the 2020 election from him by rigging votes for Democrat President Joe Biden.
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