The U.S. Supreme Court is in favor of voter restrictions in the new Courts

The resolution could make it easier for other states to establish voting rules because of the exclusion of black, Latino, and indigenous voters.

The U.S. Supreme Court has upheld a two-Republican vote restriction in Arizona, a low court has found that it has disproportionately burdened black, Latino, and Native American voters, and failed to defeat voting rights advocates and Democrats.

Thursday’s 6-3 ruling, which was the majority of the Conservative court’s judges, restricted the early collection of third-party ballots and allowed absentee voters to violate the Voting Rights Act, an important federal law of 1965. racial discrimination in voting.

The three liberal judges of the court disagreed with the decision.

The decision comes at a time when U.S. states are monitoring Republican vote cuts, when former President Donald Trump denounced widespread election fraud and irregularities in the 2020 loss to Joe Biden, now president.

The verdict marked the victory of the Arizona Republican Party and state Attorney General Mark Brnovich. They appealed the lower court’s ruling, which ruled the restriction illegal.

The case involves the 2016 Arizona law, which turned it into a crime to give early voting to other people by election officials, except for family members or caregivers. Community activists sometimes conduct ballots to facilitate voting and increase voter turnout. Voting is legal in most states, with different restrictions. Republican critics call the practice a “vote-gathering”.

Another restriction on the issue was a long-standing Arizona policy that excludes votes cast in a constituency where an elector has not been assigned. In some places, constituencies are not the closest to their homes.

The case raised doubts as to whether the frauds should be documented to justify honest news.

Democrats at the state level have accused Republicans of imposing measures to remove voters to make it difficult for racial minorities who allow Democratic candidates to vote for Democratic candidates. Many Republicans have justified the new cuts as a way to reduce voter fraud, an election experts say is a rare phenomenon in the U.S.

Republicans want to regain control of the U.S. Congress from Democrats in the 2022 midterm elections.

The Arizona legal dispute was about a specific provision in Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act that prohibits voting policies or practices that cause racial discrimination. Article 2 has been the main tool used to show that voting tapes discriminate against minorities, since the Supreme Court rejected another section of the statute in 2013, specifying that states with a history of racial discrimination needed federal approval to change voting laws.

The Republican-controlled Arizona Senate ordered the Maricopa County ballot to be counted by hand, although a vote for the 2020 presidential election was secured in January. [File: Matt York/Pool/AP Photo]

Arizona Republicans said in court papers that the vote cuts have partisan effects and have an impact on elections. The repeal of out-of-district politics would reduce Republican election prospects because it would increase democratic turnout, judges told the March 2 arguments in the lawsuit.

Republicans said that “neutral” rules about the time, place, or manner of an election do not deny anyone the right to vote, and that federal law does not require protocols to maximize the participation of racial minorities.

The Democratic National Committee and the Arizona Democratic Party sued for the restrictions. Arizona Democratic Secretary of State Katie Hobbs has sided with the challenge of the measures.

The U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the 9th San Francisco Circuit last year found that Arizona’s restrictions violated the Voting Rights Act, even though they were in effect for the Nov. 3 election, when Democrat Joe Biden defeated Republican Donald Trump in the state. .

Circuit 9 also found that “false claims based on fraudulent race to vote” were used to persuade Arizona lawmakers to impose this restriction with intent to discriminate, violating the U.S. Constitution’s ban on denying race-based voting rights.

Republicans in the U.S. Senate on June 23 blocked democratically backed legislation to expand voting rights and establish uniform national voting standards to compensate for the wave of new Republican-led vote cuts in states.

Biden has sharply criticized the Republican-backed state-sponsored vote cuts. Biden called the measure signed by the Georgian Republican governor in March “cruelty” and equated the right to legalize racial segregation and liberation of blacks with the racist laws established in the decades after the U.S. Civil War 1861-65 1861-65.