How can a State ensure that only citizens vote if it cannot ask for proof of citizenship—and cannot remove a registration after learning that the registrant is not a citizen? That is the question now before the U.S. Supreme Court in Republican National Committee v. Mi Familia Vota. Today, Lex Rex Institute attorney Alexander Haberbush, together with constitutional scholar Dr. John Eastman, filed an amicus brief urging the Court to reverse the Ninth Circuit. Arizona'

Civilizations have always reserved their highest honors for the question of membership. Monarchies bestowed titles of nobility; empires conferred the dignity of imperial citizenship. A republic has only one honor that finally matters, and that is citizenship itself.

“Today’s ruling is a complete vindication of the rule of law and the integrity of the electoral process,” said LRI president Alexander Haberbush. “This case was an attempt to short-circuit the democratic process, and it rightly failed. The voters of Shasta County will now have the opportunity to decide this measure for themselves. We’re proud to have defended that principle, and we’re ready to defend the will of the voters going forward.”