Panel Maintains Ban on Database Voter Checks
The 2-1 ruling said the database changes could expose millions of Social Security numbers and force eligible voters to prove citizenship.
- On Friday, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit upheld a lower court's ban on the Trump administration using the Department of Homeland Security's Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system for voter roll maintenance.
- District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan issued the initial injunction in June, claiming the administration "knowingly trampled" on privacy rights while attempting to expand the database for bulk queries and interagency data sharing.
- Chief Judge Sri Srinivasan and Circuit Judge Robert Wilkins ruled the system violates the Social Security Act by disclosing sensitive data, noting that inaccurate Social Security Administration records could lead to voter registration cancellations.
- The decision arrives two months before the November midterm elections, as Republicans defend narrow majorities in Congress and seek to verify citizenship records on voter rolls.
- Circuit Judge Gregory Katsas dissented, arguing that states have accessed this data for decades and that affected individuals would experience "relatively little harm" if the system remained active.
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Court: WH Can’t Use Database To Seek “Illegal Voters”
Democracy Docket reports: A federal appeals court has rejected the Trump administration’s effort to immediately revive the use of a sweeping immigration database to check voter rolls, leaving in place a ruling that shut down a major piece of President Donald Trump’s anti-voting agenda ahead of the midterms. In a 2-1 decision, the D.C. Circuit … The post Court: WH Can’t Use Database To Seek “Illegal Voters” appeared first on Joe.My.God..
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Panel maintains ban on database voter checks
A federal appeals court panel rejected the Trump administration's bid to lift a ban on using a federal immigration database to check the accuracy of citizenship records on states' voter rolls.
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Booths await Maine voters to cast their ballots at a polling station inside the Portland Exposition Building in Bangor, Maine, on June 9, 2026. (C.J. Gunther/Getty Images)
Federal appeals court upholds ban on Trump’s bid to use citizenship data for voter checks - Regional Media News
Sept 5 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court panel rejected the Trump administration's bid to lift a ban on using a federal immigration database to check the accuracy of citizenship records on states' voter rolls. In a 2-1 ruling on Friday, the U.S. Court of [...]
D.C. Circuit, on 2-1 Party Line Vote, Refuses to Put on Hold Lower Court Order Barring Trump Administration from Rolling Out Revised "SAVE" Database to Allow States to to Check Voters' Citizenship via Bulk Searches #ELB
You can find the 53 pages of an opinion and dissent at this link. This one too may be SCOTUS-bound.
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