Alabama Officials Want to Ban Naturalized Citizens From Holding Elected Office

Wes Allen proposes amendment to require elected officials be native citizens

Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen announced Monday that two state lawmakers will be carrying a constitutional amendment that would require all elected state constitutional officers to be natural-born U.S. citizens. The Natural Born Citizen Constitutional Amendment will be sponsored in the Senate by Senator Donnie Chesteen, R-Geneva, as Senate Bill 21. Additionally, Allen’s office announced that Representative Rhett Marques, R-Enterprise, has …

Alabama officials want to ban naturalized citizens from holding elected office

Alabama Secretary of State Wes Allen and a Republican state senator want to change the state Constitution to require the state’s elected officials to be citizens born in the United States.The natural born citizen requirement would apply to all of Alabama’s elected posts that are designated by the state Constitution – governor, lieutenant governor, attorney general, legislators, judges, sheriffs, and others.

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Senator Donnie Chesteen (R-Geneva) announced today his sponsorship of the Natural Born Citizen Constitutional Amendment (SB 21) the cornerstone of Secretary of State Wes Allen’s legislative agenda for the upcoming session. “I am excited to get this legislation passed and put the amendment on a ballot for a vote of the people. When Wes Allen approached me with the idea of mandating that all of our state’s elected constitutional officers must be n…