Trump asks Supreme Court to revive controversial system used for voter purges - CNN

President Donald Trump asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to reinstate the SAVE (Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements) system, a Department of Homeland Security data program his administration wants to use for broad reviews of state voter rolls.
The program has been on hold across most of the country after a lower court found the administration violated privacy law in expanding it for voter purges.
Critics argue SAVE produces inaccurate results that can wrongly flag eligible voters as non-citizens, potentially leading to flawed purges that disenfranchise legitimate voters.
US Solicitor General John Sauer called the lower court's ruling "indefensible," arguing it threatens the integrity of upcoming elections, while Trump has long claimed non-citizen voting taints elections—an assertion debunked by numerous studies showing it is rare.
The administration had expanded the program by adding data sets such as Social Security records and letting states upload voter lists in bulk, moving beyond the earlier individualized citizenship checks; challengers cited Texas, where citizens were wrongly purged after a SAVE review last year.
US District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, a Biden appointee, blocked the program in June, writing that the federal government "knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens" in a way that threatens the right to vote; the request comes as the administration also presses the court to reinstate proposed Postal Service mail-voting mandates for the midterms.