We told you earlier this month about a district court injunction against Arizona’s law requiring proof of citizenship to vote in presidential elections.

The Republican Party of Arizona has appealed to the Supreme Court for an emergency stay of the injunction citing that the Constitution gives states the power to set voter qualifications.

Now we learn that 24 states have submitted a brief to the Supreme Court, asking the high court to release the injunction on the law so it can proceed.

Here’s more from JTN:

A coalition of 24 states have called on the U.S. Supreme Court to ensure that noncitizens don’t vote in federal elections, in accordance with federal law.

They filed a brief with the court in support of an Arizona law requiring proof of citizenship in order to vote. The coalition asked the Supreme Court to issue an emergency stay of a federal district court’s injunction against the law.

The coalition also asks the court to hear the case, Republican National Committee v. Mi Familia Vota, and confirm that states have the right to govern their elections, including requiring voters to show proof of citizenship. Arizona House Speaker Ben Toma, Senate President Warren Petersen and the Republican National Committee have asked the court to allow Arizona to enforce the 2022 law while it is still being litigated.

The coalition includes the attorneys general Alabama, Alaska, Arkansas, Florida, Georgia, Idaho, Iowa, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Texas, Utah, Virginia and West Virginia.

Many states, including Florida, require that voters be United States citizens, Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody notes. “However, courts have chipped away at the states’ authority to secure their own elections,” the brief states. “Voting by noncitizens, both legal and illegal, is real. The typical rejoinder is to claim that few noncitizens vote. On its own terms, though, the answer at least acknowledges that the problem persists. But it also ignores that even small voting blocs can have outsized effects on electoral outcomes. That effect is most obvious in local elections.”

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton said the Supreme Court issuing a stay of the lower court’s ruling is necessary because it “intentionally misrepresents the NVRA” and ignores that states have a “sovereign right to regulate their elections.”

Paxton argued that the Biden-Harris Administration “has intentionally flooded our country with illegal aliens. Without proper safeguards, foreign nationals can and will illegally influence elections at the local, state, and national level. States have a constitutional right and responsibility to ensure that only legal votes from American citizens are counted.”

He urged the Supreme Court to recognize “the urgency of this situation” just three months before the presidential election in November.