A Nebraska court Wednesday rejected the Republican National Committee’s lawsuit seeking to block certain U.S. citizens abroad from voting in the state, handing the national GOP another major loss in its escalating legal campaign against overseas voters.
A Nebraska court Wednesday rejected the Republican National Committee’s lawsuit seeking to block certain U.S. citizens abroad from voting in the state, handing the national GOP another major loss in its escalating legal campaign against overseas voters.
Lancaster County District Court Judge Ryan Post denied the RNC’s motion for summary judgment and dismissed the complaint with prejudice.
The lawsuit filed in June challenged a Nebraska law that allows U.S. citizens who live outside the country, are not registered to vote in another state and have at least one parent registered to vote in Nebraska, to register and vote in the state themselves.
The RNC argued that the law violated the Nebraska Constitution’s residency requirement by allowing nonresidents to vote in Nebraska elections.
But the court flatly rejected the RNC’s challenge, finding that the party failed to show the law is unconstitutional in all of its applications.
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