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  "path": "/post/212175/judge-blocks-trump-voter-database-americans-ssns",
  "publishedAt": "2026-06-22T20:13:40.000Z",
  "site": "https://newrepublic.com",
  "tags": [
    "Breaking News",
    "Politics",
    "Republicans",
    "Republican Party",
    "Donald Trump",
    "Election 2026",
    "United States",
    "Voting Rights",
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  "textContent": "A federal judge has blocked the Department of Homeland Security from continuing to “haphazardly” create a database of millions of Americans they knew was “inaccurate” in order to purge noncitizens off voter rolls.\n\nU.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan on Monday sided with the League of Women Voters, who’d challenged Trump’s directive to expand the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE).\n\nIn order to update the SAVE database, the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services obtained Americans’ Social Security numbers from the Department of Government Efficiency—where some employees were accused of misusing Americans’ sensitive information—and combined it with citizenship data that “they knew to be unreliable,” Sooknanan wrote.\n\n“Since then, states have partnered with the federal government to access the database and are actively removing United States citizens from voter rolls based on inaccurate information,” she continued in her 75-page ruling. “All in all, the federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote.”\n\nSooknanan ruled that the Trump administration had violated protections enshrined in the Social Security Act, Privacy Act, and Administrative Procedures Act.\n\nSince SAVE was updated, numerous voters have been falsely declared noncitizens, threatened with removal from voter registration rolls, and in some cases, referred to the DHS for possible criminal investigations. Sooknanan found that these misidentifications qualified as, at the very least, “a lesser form” of defamation, and said the administration’s arguments to the contrary “border on absurd.”",
  "title": "Judge Blocks Trump’s “Voter Database” of Americans and Their SSNs"
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