Kentucky Attorney General Russell Coleman announced on Wednesday that he joined 25 other Attorneys General in a brief asking the U.S. Supreme Court to protect states’ ability to require proof of citizenship to vote and to remove noncitizens from voter rolls within 90 days of an election.
The AGs are asking the high court to overturn a decision that an Arizona law requiring proof of citizenship to vote was unlawful. The lower court also said that states cannot remove illegal immigrants from their voter rolls within 90 days of an election under the National Voter Registration Act.
According to Coleman, this lawsuit attempts to undermine states’ sovereignty to protect their elections. In November 2024, Kentucky voters overwhelmingly supported an amendment to the state Constitution barring non-citizens from voting in the Commonwealth’s elections. That provision is now in Section 145 of Kentucky’s Constitution, which states that “[n]o person who is not a citizen of the United States shall be allowed to vote in this state.”
“Election integrity is foundational to our Constitutional system and ensuring that illegal immigrants do not vote is essential to our elections being free and secure,” Coleman said. “Kenrtucky’s elections are some of the safest and strongest in the country thanks to the measures we have in place on and after Election Day.”
The Office of the Attorney General’s Department of Criminal Investigations reviews all allegations of election fraud reported through the Office’s Election Fraud Hotline.
Kentucky joined the Kansas and Alabama-led brief, along with Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Indiana, Iowa, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, Ohio, Oklahoma, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, West Virginia, and Wyoming.
You can read the entire 38-page brief by clicking here.
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