{
  "id": 9839830,
  "title": "Supreme Court allows Trump to use controversial database to check voter citizenship",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/supreme-court-allows-trump-to-use-controversial-database-to-check",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-09-25T21:34:32.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "KahawaTungu",
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    "url": "https://kahawatungu.com/supreme-court-allows-trump-to-use-controversial-database-to-check-voter-citizenship/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": "The US Supreme Court has overturned restrictions preventing the Trump administration from utilizing a contentious federal database to investigate potential non-citizens among voters. This program, known as Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (Save), raises privacy concerns as it employs sensitive data from various federal agencies. Despite a federal judge's ruling in June that the system infringes on citizens' privacy rights, the conservative majority on the Supreme Court decided that the National Voter Registration Act stops broad voter roll purges before elections, thereby limiting the immediate impact of the court's decision. However, states can still independently verify individual voters' citizenship. Three liberal justices dissented, with Ketanji Brown Jackson expressing concern over the potential disenfranchisement of eligible voters. The Save program, initially established in 1986 for public benefits verification, was expanded by the Trump administration to enable bulk searches using Social Security data. While the Department of Homeland Security program is voluntary for states, the 1996 law obligates the federal government to respond to states' requests for such data. Voting rights organizations criticized the ruling, warning it could put millions at risk of wrongful targeting by the administration weeks before the midterm elections.",
  "summary": "The US Supreme Court has lifted restrictions on the Trump administration to use a controversial federal database that uses citizenship information and other sensitive data to identify voters suspected of being non-citizens. Critics have questioned the reliability of the data, warning it could result in US citizens being wrongly removed from electoral rolls. In June, [...] The post Supreme Court…",
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    "also_reported_by": [
      {
        "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": "NDTV",
        "title": "US Supreme Court To Let Trump Use Federal Database To Weed Out Non-Citizens",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/us-supreme-court-to-let-trump-use-federal-database-to-weed-out-non",
        "published": "2026-09-25T18:43:02.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Punch",
        "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",
        "published": "2026-09-25T18:52:40.000Z"
      },
      {
        "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"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "The Hill",
        "title": "Anti-Trump attorney: 'Don't overreact' to Supreme Court voter database decision",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/anti-trump-attorney-dont-overreact-to-supreme-court-voter-database",
        "published": "2026-09-25T20:04:25.000Z"
      },
      {
        "outlet": "Channel News Asia",
        "title": "Top court grants Trump bid to use federal database to verify voter rolls",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/25/top-court-grants-trump-bid-to-use-federal-database-to-verify-voter",
        "published": "2026-09-25T20:44:25.000Z"
      }
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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."
}