Sep 25, 2026 · 11 min · 5 segments
Breaking: the Supreme Court just sided with the Trump administration, reviving DHS's flawed SAVE database and letting states use it to challenge and purge voters — including naturalized citizens…
Julie RoginskyHost
Michelle KinneyHost
Just published on Democracy Docket, Supreme Court revives DHS use of flawed immigration database for voter purges.
The Supreme Court, the Supreme Court authorized the Trump administration to overhaul a federal immigration database into a vast centralized and deeply flawed database of Americans personal information to initiate registration purges.
The decision lets the administration move forward with a key provision of President Donald Trump's 2025 anti-voting executive order, much of which courts have permanently blocked.
The court's Republican appointed majority lifted a lower court order that found the Department of Homeland Security's modification and use of the systematic alien verification for entitlement trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote.
What this effectively means is that states that want to use this federal database, which is going to be Republican states, including states like Ohio, including states like and this is for the midterms.
Think about how much chaos they've just injected into the midterm elections, which is exactly what they want.
When early voting has already begun in places like North Carolina, it has been going on for a couple of weeks now.
um there is a very contested senate race in north carolina luckily north carolina is controlled by a democratic governor so they may not participate in this georgia where there's a contested uh senate race controlled by republicans ohio where there's contested centeries controlled by republicans iowa where there's a contested center race controlled by republicans alaska where there's a contested center race controlled by republicans kansas and i can go on and on and on and on places where democrats are competitive this year at the federal level but at the state level the states are controlled and their voting apparatus is controlled by republicans what this means is that potentially if you live in any of these republican states where there is a Very hot Senate race or congressional race is happening right now.
They are going to use a federal database, which takes people's social security numbers and their naturalization information and other information that belongs to them.
Just published on Democracy Docket, Supreme Court revives DHS use of flawed immigration database for voter purges.
The Supreme Court, the Supreme Court authorized the Trump administration to overhaul a federal immigration database into a vast centralized and deeply flawed database of Americans personal information to initiate registration purges.
The decision lets the administration move forward with a key provision of President Donald Trump's 2025 anti-voting executive order, much of which courts have permanently blocked.
The court's Republican appointed majority lifted a lower court order that found the Department of Homeland Security's modification and use of the systematic alien verification for entitlement trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote.
What this effectively means is that states that want to use this federal database, which is going to be Republican states, including states like Ohio, including states like and this is for the midterms.
Think about how much chaos they've just injected into the midterm elections, which is exactly what they want.
When early voting has already begun in places like North Carolina, it has been going on for a couple of weeks now.
um there is a very contested senate race in north carolina luckily north carolina is controlled by a democratic governor so they may not participate in this georgia where there's a contested uh senate race controlled by republicans ohio where there's contested centeries controlled by republicans iowa where there's a contested center race controlled by republicans alaska where there's a contested center race controlled by republicans kansas and i can go on and on and on and on places where democrats are competitive this year at the federal level but at the state level the states are controlled and their voting apparatus is controlled by republicans what this means is that potentially if you live in any of these republican states where there is a Very hot Senate race or congressional race is happening right now.
They are going to use a federal database, which takes people's social security numbers and their naturalization information and other information that belongs to them.
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