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  "id": 9799178,
  "title": "Supreme Court restores Trump's mass voter verification system",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/supreme-court-restores-trumps-mass-voter-verification-system",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-25T17:50:41.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Jerusalem Post",
    "slug": "jerusalem-post",
    "url": "https://www.jpost.com/american-politics/article-909732"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "On Friday, the US Supreme Court reinstated an expanded voter verification database created by the Trump administration's Justice Department, despite concerns about potential disenfranchisement of eligible voters. The court, with a 6-3 conservative majority, blocked a judge's order that halted state officials from using Social Security numbers and other information to verify the citizenship status of registered voters against federal records. The majority argued that federal law allows the Department of Homeland Security to request and receive immigration information from sources like the Social Security Administration. The modified Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, database allows users to search multiple records at once and use Social Security numbers for searches. Since its redesign last year, several Republican-led states have compared their voter rolls to the database, leading to some voter registrations being canceled. Critics argue that these actions are politically motivated and could suppress Democratic-leaning voters. The Supreme Court's three liberal justices dissented, expressing concern that even a few wrongly targeted voters could be harmed by the flawed system, which has an unknown error rate. The advocacy groups representing the plaintiffs called the court's decision \"profoundly disappointing.\"",
  "summary": "The US Supreme Court granted the DOJ's request to overturn a judge's order that stopped the Trump administration from using Social Security numbers to check the citizenship of registered voters.",
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        "published": "2026-09-25T15:11:46.000Z"
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        "outlet": "NPR",
        "title": "The Supreme Court revives a controversial data system for citizenship checks",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/the-supreme-court-revives-a-controversial-data-system-for-citizenship",
        "published": "2026-09-25T15:40:57.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Hill",
        "title": "Supreme Court, over liberal dissents, lets DHS overhaul immigration database for midterms",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/supreme-court-over-liberal-dissents-lets-dhs-overhaul-immigration",
        "published": "2026-09-25T15:42:55.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "ABC News (US)",
        "title": "Supreme Court allows use of citizenship database ahead of midterms",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/supreme-court-allows-use-of-citizenship-database-ahead-of-midterms",
        "published": "2026-09-25T16:02:50.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "PBS NewsHour",
        "title": "Supreme Court lets Trump administration use revamped federal voter eligibility database for now",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/supreme-court-lets-trump-administration-use-revamped-federal-voter",
        "published": "2026-09-25T16:06:17.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "CBS News",
        "title": "Supreme Court lets Trump administration use SAVE database for now",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/supreme-court-lets-trump-administration-use-save-database-for-now",
        "published": "2026-09-25T16:31:29.000Z"
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      {
        "outlet": "France 24",
        "title": "US Supreme Court allows Trump to use controversial voter 'verification' system",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/us-supreme-court-allows-trump-to-use-controversial-voter-verification",
        "published": "2026-09-25T16:52:32.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "CBC News",
        "title": "In win for Trump, U.S. Supreme Court lets states use revamped voter verification system",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/in-win-for-trump-u-s-supreme-court-lets-states-use-revamped-voter",
        "published": "2026-09-25T17:16:47.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "BBC World",
        "title": "Supreme Court revives controversial US data system for citizenship checks",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/supreme-court-revives-controversial-us-data-system-for-citizenship",
        "published": "2026-09-25T17:19:56.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "CNBC",
        "title": "Supreme Court restores Trump's mass voter verification system",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/supreme-court-restores-trumps-mass-voter-verification-system-9805221",
        "published": "2026-09-25T17:33:39.000Z"
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