The U.S. Supreme Court has just voted to REINSTATE a provision from an Arizona law that requires voter applicants to provide documentary proof-of-citizenship when getting registered to vote.
This overruled the decisions from the lower court judges who blocked the law. From here on out, proof of citizenship will now be required for new voters using a state voter registration form.
In what is likely to be one of many election-related disputes to come before the court ahead of the November election, the justices allowed for one of three provisions of the state law to be enforced.
The vote was 5-4 on allowing limited enforcement of the law with conservative justices in the majority. One conservative, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, joined the three liberal justices in dissent. The court, in a brief order, did not explain its reasoning.
Three conservative justices — Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito and Neil Gorsuch — said they would have allowed all three provisions to be enforced.