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🚨 BREAKING: In a major loss for voters, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow the Trump administration to initiate voter roll purges using a flawed database involving Americans' private data. The ruling will disproportionately impact naturalized citizens who've been wrongly flagged in the system.

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In a scathing dissent, Justice Jackson, joined by Justices Sotomayor and Kagan, wrote: "The Court focuses only on the harms the Government will purportedly suffer absent a stay, disregarding the harms that the modified SAVE system has caused, and will likely continue to cause, to lawful voters."

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Jackson: "The harm caused by burdening or disenfranchising even a few lawful voters outweighs the nonexistent harm that the Government experiences when it is prevented from taking an action that it likely lacks the authority to take."

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Jackson: "Even more concerning is the majority’s omission of any consideration of the harms that might occur if the modified SAVE system is allowed to continue operating...[like] the risk that States might cancel the voter registrations of at least some recently naturalized citizens."

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Peter
@crankyvink.bsky.social

After the election, every blue win will be challenged Expecting to hear *Not all non-citizens were purged from the voter rolls - despite this ruling by SCOTUS *Republicans were illegally purged - as the SAVE Act was not endorsed by SCOTUS in sufficient time to do a proper, vetted purge

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The ruling also deals a blow to voting and privacy groups challenging DHS' overhaul of the database as a violation of federal privacy laws and an unconstitutional attempt to usurp states' authority over elections. Read the full story:

democracydocket.comSupreme Court revives DHS use of flawed immigration database for voter purgesThe decision lets the administration move forward with a key provision of President Trump’s first anti-voting executive order.
Dr.hello
@drhello.bsky.social

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Norm Eisen@normeisen.bsky.social

Please don't overreact to the SCOTUS SAVE database decision today Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes cannot be made to voter lists! Yeah it's a shit decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal with it. More to come...

nytimes.comSupreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms (Gift Article)Critics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.
ianxz.bsky.social
@ianxz.bsky.social

Imagine suffering rising prices after promises they would drop, endless war when he promised to end them, tariffs you pay, too, massive corruption, deporting non-criminals - and you think he is only messing with votes for OTHER people. Slow learners like that had special schools when I was young.

Russell Voughdemort
@voughdermort.bsky.social

Sorry, what? How does this list impact who can vote? I am in disbelief but also denial. There was a story today that of the hundreds of thousands of people DHS flagged in NV as noncitizen voters, zero (0) were in fact ineligible to vote.

Kevin Perkins
@kp3231.bsky.social

Reason #88 that a Democrat POTUS on Jan. 20, 2029 must make their first action to nominate 4 additional Associate Justices to the Supreme Court. And if the Senate goes Democrat in November, there will NO MORE Trump WH SCOTUS nominees to receive a confirmation hearings. Enough liars on the Court.

Stephen Pickering
@malletsb4thought.bsky.social

I feel like the only way SCOTUS will rule against these corrupt laws is if the Democrats had backed them. Not that they would, of course, but it's obvious that the Roberts court rules on partisanship, not merits.

tachi
@tachimine.bsky.social

This right here. How do these justices reconcile letting trump purge voters while also upholding a states Constitution right to govern elections? It makes zero sense. I think the Rs knew they had to give him a win to passify his cheating ass.

kth
@ktheintz.bsky.social

If it's any consolation, (my understanding is) the federal government can't make states use the database, so only the ones that are trying to hobble voting by people of color will.