State Rep. Mack Butler (R-Rainbow City) recently took a bold stance supporting Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen's recent efforts to purge illegal voters from the state's rolls after a federal judge defeated the state's effort.
In August, Allen announced that his office was implementing a process of removing ineligible non-citizen voters from Alabama's rolls ahead of the November elections. Allen said he identified 3,251 non-citizen voters on the state's rolls and had instructed Boards of Registrars in all 67 Alabama counties to inactivate and initiate steps necessary to remove them and any other ineligible voters from the voter file.
The Biden administration's Department of Justice alleges the program fell within a prohibitory time window before the November 5 general election, violating the National Voter Registration Act of 1993.
Last week, Trump appointee U.S. District Judge Anna Manasco blocked the program from taking effect.
Allen received near-ubiquitous support from lawmakers in Alabama and across the nation.
At a Monday town hall to discuss legislative efforts to combat gender ideology in schools, Butler outright said the state should "stand up" against the federal court's ruling and continue to fight against illegal voting in the state.
During a discussion on state politics, Butler attempted to distinguish between state and federal politics.
"The federal government is what we are on steroids," Butler said. "Everywhere you look, just as simple as, Alabama had illegals that the secretary of state purged from the voter rolls, and the federal government is forcing us to add them back."
"I personally think we, the state of Alabama, we are a sovereign state, should stand up against them. If you look back at the history of our nation, many times, state law beats federal law. And that gets into some deep water, but that does happen and did happen at the time," he added.
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