Look, states work to protect individual rights with the authority granted to them by their state Constitution and within the bounds set by the United States Constitution. And unfortunately, Federal law currently prevents states from using this authority to protect voters and the integrity of our elections when it comes to protecting the rights of voters by excluding noncitizen voter participation. This law that we've been referring to is an existing federal law, the NVRA National Voter Rights act, which the Supreme Court decided prohibits the states from requiring proof of citizenship, even though the statute itself says nothing about that. (48:38–48:55)
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