Arizona 2022 Regular Session

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1		-	~~Senate Engrossed~~ plenary legislative authority; elections State of Arizona Senate Fifty-fifth Legislature Second Regular Session 2022 ~~SENATE CONCURRENT RESOLUTION~~ 1032 A Concurrent Resolution reaffirming the legislature's plenary power with respect to elections. (TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
	1	+	REFERENCE TITLE: plenary legislative authority; elections State of Arizona Senate Fifty-fifth Legislature Second Regular Session 2022 SCR 1032 Introduced by Senators Townsend: Borrelli, Gowan, Gray, Kerr, Leach, Livingston, Petersen, Rogers; Representatives Burges, Fillmore A CONCURRENT resolution reaffirming the legislature's plenary power with respect to elections. (TEXT OF BILL BEGINS ON NEXT PAGE)
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	12	+	Introduced by Senators Townsend: Borrelli, Gowan, Gray, Kerr, Leach, Livingston, Petersen, Rogers; Representatives Burges, Fillmore
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	46	+	Senators Townsend: Borrelli, Gowan, Gray, Kerr, Leach, Livingston, Petersen, Rogers; Representatives Burges, Fillmore
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53	56		reaffirming the legislature's plenary power with respect to elections.
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63	66		Whereas, the Constitution of the United States vests power in the states to manage, control and administer each state's own election laws; and Whereas, the power over elections was preserved explicitly for the states by the Constitution; and Whereas, rare exceptions in the Constitution, such as the Elections Clause, the Fifteenth Amendment, the Nineteenth Amendment, the Twenty-fourth Amendment and the Twenty-sixth Amendment, do not extinguish the constitutional presumption that states have the constitutional power to set the terms of administering the election, designating electors and establishing other laws and protocols related to the election; and Whereas, the Elections Clause of the Constitution was intended to prevent the states from suffocating the existence of the government of the United States, and no such contemplated effort has occurred; and Whereas, the Elections Clause was to be sparingly used to intrude on state power to manage, control and administer state elections; and Whereas, it is the constitutional and legal obligation of the Legislature of the State of Arizona to ensure that this state's presidential electors truly represent the will of Arizona voters; and Whereas, the United States Supreme Court and other courts have explained that when a state legislature directs the manner of appointing electors, it does so pursuant to a grant of authority from the United States Constitution rather than by reason of any state constitutional or other legal provisions, that this authority may be exercised by the legislature alone without other aspects of the normal lawmaking process and that the state legislature's authority over the appointment of presidential electors is plenary. Therefore Be it resolved by the Senate of the State of Arizona, the House of Representatives concurring: That the Members of the Legislature reaffirm the Legislature's plenary power with respect to elections and oppose any attempt by the federal government to usurp or otherwise interfere with the state legislative sovereign authority over the management, control and administration of elections.
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65	68		Whereas, the Constitution of the United States vests power in the states to manage, control and administer each state's own election laws; and
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67	70		Whereas, the power over elections was preserved explicitly for the states by the Constitution; and
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69	72		Whereas, rare exceptions in the Constitution, such as the Elections Clause, the Fifteenth Amendment, the Nineteenth Amendment, the Twenty-fourth Amendment and the Twenty-sixth Amendment, do not extinguish the constitutional presumption that states have the constitutional power to set the terms of administering the election, designating electors and establishing other laws and protocols related to the election; and
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71	74		Whereas, the Elections Clause of the Constitution was intended to prevent the states from suffocating the existence of the government of the United States, and no such contemplated effort has occurred; and
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73	76		Whereas, the Elections Clause was to be sparingly used to intrude on state power to manage, control and administer state elections; and
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75	78		Whereas, it is the constitutional and legal obligation of the Legislature of the State of Arizona to ensure that this state's presidential electors truly represent the will of Arizona voters; and
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77	80		Whereas, the United States Supreme Court and other courts have explained that when a state legislature directs the manner of appointing electors, it does so pursuant to a grant of authority from the United States Constitution rather than by reason of any state constitutional or other legal provisions, that this authority may be exercised by the legislature alone without other aspects of the normal lawmaking process and that the state legislature's authority over the appointment of presidential electors is plenary.
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81	84		Be it resolved by the Senate of the State of Arizona, the House of Representatives concurring:
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83	86		That the Members of the Legislature reaffirm the Legislature's plenary power with respect to elections and oppose any attempt by the federal government to usurp or otherwise interfere with the state legislative sovereign authority over the management, control and administration of elections.