A federal judge has, once again, disallowed the Trump administration from turning its thoroughly debunked election fraud propaganda into an excuse to violate the constitutional rights of eligible voters.
According to the New York Times, on Monday, U.S. District Court Judge Sparkle Sooknanan ordered the Department of Homeland Security to stop allowing states to use a centralized national database of citizens built for checking immigration status to screen their voter rolls, which the database was repurposed for last year via an executive order signed by President Donald Trump, who is still inconceivably dedicated to spreading the MAGA gospel that elections are being rigged and that non-citizens are voting in them, even if it means enshrining those persistent lies into federal policy.
But before we get into all of that, let’s talk about the database known as SAVE — not to be confused with the SAVE Act, though the act does serve the same purpose of backing election fraud propaganda — and what its initial purpose was, as well as why the judge ruled against its new purpose.
From NPR:
SAVE is run by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services, and was previously used by state and federal agencies to check whether a foreign-born individual was eligible for certain government benefits. Those checks were done one by one.
Last year, USCIS’ parent agency, the Department of Homeland Security, with the help of DOGE, made it possible to perform bulk checks on SAVE. Further changes linked SAVE to Social Security Administration data for the first time and added the records of American-born citizens.
Sooknanan wrote in her ruling that in performing this overhaul, federal agencies “haphazardly combined and repurposed the private information of millions of Americans, including citizenship data that they knew to be unreliable.”
Under Sooknanan’s order, the overhauled SAVE tool can no longer be used. But the Trump administration had already made SAVE checks central to its voting and elections agenda.
For instance, on March 31, Trump signed an executive order that, among its provisions, directs the Department of Homeland Security to use SAVE and other federal data to generate a list of eligible U.S. citizen voters in each state. Legal challenges are aiming to halt the executive order.
Source: Federal Judge Bars Trump Admin From Using Repurposed Immigration Database To Check Voter Rolls
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