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| Supreme Court restores Trump's mass voter verification system |
| 2026-09-26 |
| [Yahoo] US District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan in Washington, D.C can suck it. Long and hard. The US Supreme Court revived on Friday an expanded immigration database that President Donald Trump's administration said aims to combat voting by noncitizens but critics contend could disenfranchise eligible voters. The justices granted the Justice Department's request to block a judge's order that had stopped state officials from using Social Security numbers and other information to conduct sweeping checks of the citizenship status of registered voters against federal records. The court has a 6-3 conservative majority. Its three liberal justices dissented from Friday's order. The majority said the plaintiffs' arguments likely fail because federal law expressly authorizes the Department of Homeland Security to request and receive information relating to citizenship and immigration status from other agencies, including the Social Security Administration. The administration's data-sharing arrangement is one in a series of actions boosting the federal government's involvement in voting ahead of November's midterm elections in which Trump's fellow Republicans seek to maintain control of Congress. The U.S. Constitution gives individual states the primary authority to run and administer elections. The Department of Homeland Security last year redesigned a federal database known as the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, used to verify a person's citizenship and immigration status. The revamp allowed users to search many records at a time and to conduct searches using individuals' Social Security numbers. In a social media post on Friday, James Percival, general counsel at the Department of Homeland Security, replied to a post about the court's order, saying, "Yes, you read that right. We had to file an emergency petition in the Supreme Court just so we could use government data to help states stop noncitizens from illegally voting." Since the federal database was expanded, several Republican-led states have compared their voter lists to the database, and some voters flagged as potential noncitizens have had their registrations canceled. Related: US Supreme Court: 2026-09-06 Federal appeals court upholds ban on Trump's bid to use citizenship data for voter checks US Supreme Court: 2026-09-04 House DOGE panel calls Mayor Bass to DC over alleged $1B homeless funds scandal US Supreme Court: 2026-08-25 Supreme Court Upholds President Trump's Executive Order Restricting Mail-in Voting Ahead of Midterms Related: Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements: 2026-09-06 Federal appeals court upholds ban on Trump's bid to use citizenship data for voter checks Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements: 2026-04-29 Trump-appointed federal judge tosses DOJ lawsuit seeking Arizona voter data Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements: 2026-01-24 HUD orders citizenship verification after audit reveals ineligible tenants in taxpayer-funded housing |
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