Published September 23, 2026 at 12:30 AM ET · Updated September 25, 2026 at 2:08 PM ET
High court hands Trump major win against noncitizen voting
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The Supreme Court handed the Trump administration a major victory in its drive to combat noncitizen voting. Opponents of the ruling characterized it as a step toward making voting harder.
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⚖ The Constitutional Angle
Crawford v. Marion County Election Board upheld Indiana's photo-ID law: modest burdens yield to fraud-deterrence interests even absent proof of actual fraud. Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona held that states cannot demand citizenship documents from federal-form applicants beyond the sworn attestation. Whether states may demand such proof on their own forms is unsettled; the Court has agreed to decide it.
Crawford v. Marion County Election Board 553 U.S. 181 (2008)
Vote: 6-3 judgment: the six affirming Justices split 3 (Stevens lead) + 3 (Scalia concurrence… · Opinion: Justice Stevens (announced the judgment; lead/plurality opinion)
Indiana's photo-ID law (SEA 483) survives a facial constitutional challenge. Applying the Anderson/Burdick balancing framework, the lead opinion found the statute's broadly applicable burdens limited (free state ID cards; provisional-ballot cure), the record insufficient to quantify a severe burden on any class of voters, and the State's interests — deterring and detecting fraud, election modernization, and protecting public confidence in elections — sufficiently weighty even though the record contained no evidence of in-person impersonation fraud actually occurring in Indiana.
Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona 570 U.S. 1 (2013)
Vote: 7-2 · Opinion: Justice Scalia
NVRA § 6's command that states 'accept and use' the Federal Form preempts Arizona's Proposition 200 requirement that Federal Form applicants submit documentary proof of citizenship beyond the form's sworn citizenship attestation. Elections Clause legislation governing registration for federal elections carries no presumption against preemption.
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