Supreme Court allows states to check voter rolls against immigration database – National & International News
Supreme Court allows states to check voter rolls against immigration database in partial win for Trump
In a 6-3 vote along partisan lines, the Supreme Court decided to allow states to use a federal immigration database to check their voter rolls for potential non-citizens. The decision is at least a partial win for President Trump who has sought to overhaul the nation’s election system ahead of the 2026 midterms.
This particular initiative is aimed at tackling what Trump claims is a widespread issue of non-citizens voting in US elections. Numerous fact checks have found that these claims are massively overblown in terms of the raw numbers. In fact, critics say that the Trump-backed scheme is more likely to disenfranchise US citizens than to cleanse voter rolls of a significant number of non-citizens. This is because these database entries could be include those who obtained US citizenship since their entries were made.
Few of Trump’s other election reform initiatives have made it over the finish line. The Republican-controlled Congress has so far refused to pass Trump’s “SAVE America Act”, which would give the federal government far more power in administering elections. The Supreme Court also recently barred the administration from enacting a scheme in which the US Postal Service would be responsible for verifying the recipients of mail-in ballots. Both failed over objections to granting the federal government so much sway in running elections, a responsibility the Constitution reserves for individual states.
