From Eric Lendrum’s article for americangreatness.com:
In a major victory for election integrity efforts, the Supreme Court of the United States approved key portions of an Arizona law that requires proof of citizenship in order to cast a vote in the upcoming election.
As reported by Breitbart, the law in question had been passed in 2022, while Republicans still had control of the state legislature and the governorship. Passed in response to widespread voter fraud in the 2020 election, the law also requires newly-registered voters to provide proof of their address.
When the law was first passed, it was estimated that the proof of citizenship requirement could result in as many as 200,000 illegal aliens no longer being able to vote. This could prove decisive in the Grand Canyon State, which apparently voted for Joe Biden in the 2020 election by less than 11,000 votes.
What does it tell you that Republicans needed a Supreme Court decision to require Arizonans to demonstrate they are legally able to vote before casting their ballots – a requirement that, to the best of my knowledge, every other democracy in the world has?
And what does it tell you that Democrats fought this requirement with everything they had?
And what does it tell you that the Supreme Court decision was 5-4; that a Trump-appointed majority is the one and only reason it is now on the books?
Yesterday, in his speech supporting Donald Trump, Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said:
I began this journey as a Democrat. The party of my father and my uncle, the party which I pledged my own allegiance to long before I was old enough to vote.
I attended my first Democratic convention at the age of six, in 1960. And back then, the Democrats were the champions of the Constitution and of civil rights. The Democrats stood against authoritarianism, against censorship, against colonialism, against imperialism, and against unjust wars. We were the party of labor, of the working class. The Democrats were the party of government transparency and the champion of the environment. Our party was the bulwark against big money interests and corporate power. True to its name, it was the party of democracy.
As you know, I left that party in October because it had departed so dramatically from the core values that I grew up with. It had become the party of war, censorship, corruption, big pharma, big tech, big AG, and big money.
When it abandoned democracy by canceling the primary to conceal the cognitive decline of the sitting president, I left the party to run as an independent.
Does RFK Jr. have a point? You tell me.
I could spend an hour telling you the reasons I don’t like the Republican Party and I don’t like Donald Trump. But overt efforts to subvert democracy will not be one of them.
By contrast, as RFK Jr. so clearly explains, it has become a hallmark of the Democrat Party.
For the above reasons, I fully support, and applaud, this Supreme Court decision.
My only complaint is that it relates specifically to Arizona. How I wish the same decision – requiring people to show they are legally eligible to vote before doing so – could be applied in every other state.
