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In a major win for President Donald Trump’s efforts to find non-citizenvoters, the Supreme Court on Friday said states can use a controversial citizenship data collection tool for reviewing voter rolls.
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The court’s unsigned opinion rejected arguments that the administration likely broke the law by making easier for officials to use the data system to vet voters’ citizenship status.
But the opinion emphasized the use the program for “individualized” checks of a voter’s citizenship as the election approaches, while suggesting federal law prohibits mass purges close to Election Day.
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The three liberal justices dissented from the ruling.
The order reverses a ruling that had blocked the use of the program known as Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements or SAVE. US District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan had previously concluded that the administration violated federal privacy law in how it overhauled the data program so it could be used for sweeping reviews of state voter rolls.
Under federal law, the majority wrote, “the federal government has an obligation to respond to requests from state and local election officials seeking to verify the citizenship of voters.” The lower court order, the Supreme Court said, “prevents the federal government from using the program it believes is best suited to the task.”
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