Supreme Court Hands Trump Major Victory in Drive to Combat Noncitizen Voting

The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Department of Homeland Security to continue its citizenship verification program.

In a 6-3 shadow docket ruling in the case of DHS v. League of Women Voters, the justices allowed the Trump administration to expand the program that allows states to use Social Security records and other information to check voters’ citizenship status.

“By prohibiting interference with the disclosure of information regarding citizenship status to DHS—’notwithstanding any other provision of Federal, State, or local law’—Congress necessarily authorized DHS to request and receive that information,” the majority opinion says.

The three liberals, Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissented. ---More...

BREAKING: The Supreme Court lifted restrictions on a federal voter database before November's elections, granting President Donald Trump a temporary win in his campaign against noncitizen voting. pic.twitter.com/o5TsyJxzGI

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