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Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Reintegrate SAVE Voter Citizenship Database
Just the facts
Solicitor General D. John Sauer petitioned the high court to lift a federal injunction blocking the centralized voter verification system created under a presidential executive order. U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan previously ruled that the SAVE database unlawfully infringed on citizens' privacy rights and led to improper voter roll purges across several states. The Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit denied a request to stay the lower court ruling over the weekend. The administration argued that the database merely provides citizenship status verification to state election authorities without directly disqualifying voters.
Why this is news
The Trump administration filed an emergency request asking the U.S. Supreme Court to allow the use of the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements database to review state voter rolls ahead of the 2026 midterm elections.
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