{
  "id": 9810013,
  "title": "US Supreme court allows Trump to use federal database to check voter register",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/us-supreme-court-allows-trump-to-use-federal-database-to-check-voter",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-25T18:52:40.000Z",
  "source": {
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    "url": "https://punchng.com/us-supreme-court-allows-trump-to-use-federal-database-to-check-voter-register/"
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  "summary": "The US Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to use a federal database to check voter rolls for potential non-citizens. The database, known as the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE), is used to verify a person's citizenship and immigration status.\n\nThe court's conservative majority granted the Justice Department's request to block a judge's order that had stopped state officials from using Social Security numbers and other information to conduct checks of the citizenship status of registered voters against federal records. The liberal justices dissented from the decision, with one expressing concern that it could mistakenly revoke the voting rights of eligible voters.\n\nThe court's decision allows the administration to proceed with its plans to use the database ahead of November's midterm elections. According to the Jerusalem Post, the administration's data-sharing arrangement is part of a series of actions boosting the federal government's involvement in voting. The US Constitution gives individual states the primary authority to run and administer elections.",
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      {
        "outlet": "The New York Times",
        "title": "Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/supreme-court-allows-expansive-voter-screening-tool-ahead-of-midterms",
        "published": "2026-09-25T16:01:54.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Mother Jones",
        "title": "Supreme Court Allows Trump to Use Flawed Database to Vet Voter Citizenship",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/supreme-court-allows-trump-to-use-flawed-database-to-vet-voter",
        "published": "2026-09-25T17:01:58.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Punch Nigeria",
        "title": "US Supreme court allows Trump to use federal database to check voter register",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/us-supreme-court-allows-trump-to-use-federal-database-to-check-voter-9812525",
        "published": "2026-09-25T19:06:41.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Le Monde English",
        "title": "Supreme Court grants Trump request to use federal database to verify voter rolls",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/supreme-court-grants-trump-request-to-use-federal-database-to-verify",
        "published": "2026-09-25T19:40:23.000Z"
      }
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}