{"id":6701,"date":"2025-02-28T04:20:41","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T04:20:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/appeals-court-upholds-ruling-blocking-arizonas-proof-of-citizenship-provisions\/"},"modified":"2025-02-28T04:20:41","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T04:20:41","slug":"appeals-court-upholds-ruling-blocking-arizonas-proof-of-citizenship-provisions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/appeals-court-upholds-ruling-blocking-arizonas-proof-of-citizenship-provisions\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeals court upholds ruling blocking Arizona\u2019s proof of citizenship provisions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A federal appeals court upheld a previous ruling that blocked Arizona&rsquo;s proof of citizenship provision for voter registration. The ruling came from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and upholds a lower court&rsquo;s ruling that blocked 2022 laws signed by then-Gov. Doug Ducey (R). The court said in its ruling that the laws violated the&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/regulation\/court-battles\/5168172-appeals-court-arizona-proof-of-citizenship\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A federal appeals court upheld a previous ruling that blocked Arizona&rsquo;s proof of citizenship provision for voter registration. The ruling came from the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals and upholds a lower court&rsquo;s ruling that blocked 2022 laws signed by then-Gov. Doug Ducey (R). The court said in its ruling that the laws violated the&#8230;Read [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":6702,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}