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Federal appeals court upholds ban on Trump's bid to use citizenship data for voter checks

  • A federal appeals court kept a lower-court ban on using DHS’s SAVE immigration database to check citizenship on voter rolls, blocking the Trump administration’s push ahead of the Nov. 3 midterms.
  • Judges warned the system shares private data and can produce inaccurate matches that might force people to prove citizenship or even lose their voter registration.
  • The ruling was 2-1 (one Trump appointee dissented), though a separate Florida judge has ordered limited access for four GOP-led states.
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