As noted earlier, the Secretaries of State of Kansas and Arizona have asked the U.S. Supreme Court to reverse the 10th circuit, and to force the federal government to use a different type of federal voter registration form in those two states. The case is Kobach v U.S. Election Assistance Commission, 14-1164. The Election Assistance Commission response to the cert petition had been due on April 23, but the deadline has been extended to May 26. This virtually guarantees that the U.S. Supreme Court won’t decide whether to hear this case until the Court comes back from summer recess in October 2015.

Kansas and Arizona want the federal form used in their states to require applicants to attach proof of citizenship, instead of having the applicant sign under penalty of perjury that the applicant is a citizen.