Supreme Court allows use of database to review voter rolls

The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to use a controversial database to review state voter rolls. According to CBS News, the court sided with the administration in its push to use the database. The database, run by the Department of Homeland Security, is known as the SAVE database and is used to check the immigration status of individuals, PBS NewsHour reported.

The court's decision, as reported by PBS NewsHour, revives a controversial voter-citizenship database less than two months ahead of the midterm elections. The database will be used to review state voter rolls for potential noncitizens.

The Hill and NPR reported separate Supreme Court decisions, unrelated to the voter database, involving Republican efforts to use favored congressional maps in Missouri and another unreported state, which were blocked by the court.

Brief written by urgent.news from CBS News, The Hindu, PBS NewsHour, NPR, The Hill — 5 reports on this story. Machine-written — may contain errors; check the original before relying on it.