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September 07, 2026

Revenge of the Sith Court

Timothy Birdnow

The Ninth Circus, er, Circuit Court of peels,, er, Appeals has essentially removed the power of states to remove people from the voter roles and thus set the stage for an appeal to the U.S. Supreme Court.

SCOTUS will go down in history as the most important one we've ever seen in America, more than likely. Sadly it's run by a weak-as-water Chief Justice along with a couple of real weenie Justices backing his sorry posterior.

At any rate the Federalist has this to say:

RNC v. Mi Familia Vota is about to test whether states have the right to require documentary proof of U.S. citizenship to register to vote, and whether they can remove noncitizens from their voter rolls within the so-called "quiet period” 90 days prior to a federal election.

Ultimately at issue is the power of the decades-old NVRA to override states’ rights in determining who can and cannot vote in state-run elections.

"If the NVRA preempts States from imposing and enforcing a citizen qualification to vote in their elections, it creates serious constitutional doubt about the constitutionality of the NVRA itself,” the secretaries of state for Kentucky, Mississippi, and Nebraska argue in the friend-of-the-court brief.

The Supreme Court will take up, and perhaps settle, the lingering NVRA issues it dealt with 13 years ago in Arizona v. Inter Tribal Council of Arizona. In that case, the court ruled that Arizona could not require proof of citizenship on federal election registration forms, on which individuals need only attest that they are U.S. citizens. But the ruling did not bar states from requiring proof of citizenship on state voter registration forms.

Arizona’s election integrity laws allow applicants without proof of citizenship to register to vote in congressional races but not in presidential elections or by mail. Left-wing activists immediately challenged Arizona’s identification requirements, asserting that the laws violate the 1993 NVRA and disenfranchise voters who cannot provide documentary proof of U.S. citizenship.

SCOTUS weighed in ahead of the 2024 election, granting a stay on a lower court decision that sided with the leftist groups but allowing individuals using the federal registration form to vote in the presidential contest and by mail.

Republicans and election-integrity advocates argue that the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals "erased” a "constitutional boundary” in declaring Arizona’s election integrity laws unlawful. The secretaries of state note that the U.S. Constitution "confers upon States the authority to determine who is qualified to vote” through the voter qualification clause.

"The Ninth Circuit was wrong in this case. States determine voter qualifications and perform voter list maintenance. Nothing in the National Voter Registration Act changed this longstanding tenet of federalism,” Nebraska Secretary of State Robert Evnen, told The Federalist exclusively in a statement.

If the lower courts are going to argue Trump had no right to restrict mail-in ballots being delivered by the Post Office then how can they turn around and argue the states cannot restrict voter rolls? If Federalism prevents Trump from doing what he did how can the courts turn around and argue for the supremacy of federal law over state law, or more accurately the INTERPRETATION of Federal law? Either this is a state issue alone or it's a federal issue alone; can't have it both ways.

That they Democrats have argued this both ways shows it's only about using the law for political gain, not because it is the right thing to do.

The Democrats are running scared right now; they know much of their political power has come from letting in millions of illegal aliens who will vote for them since they promise protection and money. It's the dirtiest of dirty deals at the expense of Americans. It steals our vote so that they can win. This is the most abusive of actions towards American citizens.

But power is all they seek. Like Palpatine in Star Wars Episode three they shriek in joy "Unlimited power!" as they kill those trying to stop them. They are setting up an empire. (They just had a Star Wars movie marathon on this week and I caught some of it between commercials on the Yellowstone marathon on another channel.)

Once again it falls to SCOTUS. This is why the Senate needs to get off it's duff and start approving judges nominated by Trump. John Thune has foot-dragged on this all along, as did Mitch the Bitch before him.

We need to remake the courts to restore sanity. That's why the Democrats are so jacked up against Trump; the courts are their preferred method of pushing unpopular and unconstitutional ideas on America. He's wrecking that. But JOhn Thune is tossing them a lifeline by not confirming Trump appointees. He needs to go.

America is perched on a knife-edge. How it falls will determine our entire future. Defeat the Sith we MUST! (to Quote Yoda).

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