Trump administration can use revamped voter screening tool for now, SCOTUS rules
Summary
The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to use an expanded system to check voters' citizenship before the midterm elections. Voting rights groups are concerned this could wrongly block eligible citizens from voting, but the administration says it is needed to stop illegal voting.Key Facts
- The Supreme Court said the federal government can respond to states' requests to verify voters' citizenship.
- The system, called SAVE, was originally used for immigration and benefits verification but was expanded to check voter eligibility.
- The Trump administration expanded SAVE to include Social Security data and bulk searches to find noncitizen voters.
- A lower court ruled the expanded SAVE program broke laws and used unreliable data.
- Voting rights groups fear the system may wrongly remove legal voters from voting lists.
- Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson and two other justices disagreed with the majority, worrying about voter disenfranchisement.
- The Department of Homeland Security said the emergency Supreme Court petition was necessary to stop illegal voting.
- This ruling follows a recent Supreme Court decision against the administration on mail-in voting rules.
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