Attorney General Marshall Co-Leads Brief to U.S. Supreme Court Urging Court to Return Voter Qualification Authority to States

For Immediate Release:
September 21, 2026

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(Montgomery, Ala.) – Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall has filed a 26-State brief in the U.S. Supreme Court to defend election integrity and restore the States’ constitutional authority to set and enforce voter qualifications. Arizona has tried for years to enforce the basic requirement that only citizens get to vote. In Republican National Committee (RNC) v. Mi Familia Vota, the Ninth Circuit gutted Arizona’s commonsense law requiring proof of citizenship to register to vote. Going further, the Court allowed a previously-entered consent decree to limit the sovereign authority of the Arizona State Legislature to change the law and it held that States were limited in when they could remove noncitizens on their voter rolls. These are grievous errors, which the States are urging the Supreme Court to correct.