🚨 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.
- 🚨 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.
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,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."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 naturalizedThe 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:
Such a major loss to illegal voters 😢
