WASHINGTON, D.C. – In a new exclusive op-ed, Republican National Committee (RNC) Chairman Joe Gruters highlights the national stakes of the RNC's case before the U.S. Supreme Court to protect proof-of-citizenship voting requirements and keep noncitizens off voter rolls.
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Breitbart
August
31, 2026
"This
fall, the Republican National Committee will take one of the most consequential
election integrity cases in a generation before the U.S. Supreme Court.
At stake
is a principle so basic that most Americans would be shocked it is even being
debated: Can states verify citizenship before someone is added to their voter
rolls?
The
answer should be obvious.
Citizenship
is required to vote in federal elections. States should be allowed to check it.
But after
years of lawsuits from far-left Democrats determined to weaken election
safeguards, that question is now headed to the highest court in the land.
More than
two decades ago, Arizona voters overwhelmingly approved Proposition 200,
requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote. The state later
strengthened those protections by giving election officials additional tools to
verify citizenship and maintain accurate voter rolls.
Arizona
lawmakers and voters understood something simple: if citizenship is required to
vote, election officials should be able to confirm that requirement is met.
Instead
of supporting those commonsense protections, extremist Democrats and activist
groups sued to stop them.
For
years, they have fought in court to block citizenship verification
requirements, challenged efforts to remove noncitizens from voter rolls, and
opposed safeguards designed to ensure that only eligible citizens participate
in American elections. Time and again, they have argued that states should have
fewer tools to verify voter eligibility and fewer options to maintain accurate
voter rolls.
That
position defies common sense.
[...]
The
Supreme Court must now decide whether states have the authority to enforce one
of the most fundamental qualifications for voting: American citizenship.
That
authority should not even be in question. The RNC is leading the legal battle
to defend Arizona’s proof-of-citizenship requirement after Democrats went to
court to block the law and prevent the state from removing noncitizens from its
voter rolls. The case will help determine whether states retain the power to
protect the integrity of their own elections.
[...]
At its
core, this case asks whether states will keep the ability to enforce election
laws as written or whether activist groups can continue using the courts to
dismantle
commonsense
protections that voters themselves support.
And the
stakes extend far beyond Arizona.
Across
the country, many of the same left-wing groups opposing Arizona’s law have
pursued a broader campaign to dismantle our nation’s election security
measures.
They’ve
challenged voter ID laws, resisted efforts to clean voter rolls, opposed
measures designed to verify voter eligibility, and repeatedly moved to weaken
safeguards that help ensure elections are conducted fairly and transparently.
The RNC
has fought back every step of the way..."
