Supreme Court, over liberal dissents, lets DHS overhaul immigration database for midterms

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National Headlines- September 25 2026

National Headlines- September 25 2026

The Supreme Court cleared the way Friday for the Trump administration to implement its overhauled immigration database, which it says is aimed at combatting voter fraud, in time for November’s elections over the dissent of the liberal justices. 

The overhaul faced opposition from Democrats and some voting groups, and a judge had blocked it for violating federal privacy law. The Supreme Court’s emergency ruling lifts that block, finding the challengers’ claims are likely to fail. 

The majority wrote that “the Federal Government has an obligation to respond to requests from state and local election officials seeking to verify the citizenship of voters.” 

“The order below prevents the Federal Government from using the program it believes is best suited to the task,” the court wrote. 

The Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) service is used to........

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