
Newser - 15 hours 19 min ago
The Supreme Court on Friday turned away an attempt to use a new Missouri congressional map backed by President Trump, potentially putting an end to a long-running legal dispute with absentee voting underway in the midterm elections. The justices halted a federal appeals court ruling that would have revived the...

Mother Jones - 15 hours 32 min ago
The Supreme Court cleared the way on Friday for the Trump administration to use a controversial government program in its aggressive search for alleged voter fraud, increasing the likelihood that eligible voters will be wrongly labeled as non-citizens due to faulty data and removed from the rolls. The court’s conservative majority wrote that the government […]...

NY Post - 15 hours 58 min ago
The Supreme Court ruled the Trump administration can use the SAVE database to check citizenship and SSNs ahead of the midterm elections.

Advocate - 16 hours 14 min ago
Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson accused the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday of disregarding the risk to eligible voters by allowing the Trump administration to revive an expanded federal citizenship-checking system weeks before the midterm elections.

ABC News - 16 hours 15 min ago
The Supreme Court has given the Trump administration a green light to use a federal citizenship database to verify voters ahead of the midterm elections.

BBC - 16 hours 23 min ago
The system uses citizenship information and other sensitive data to filter alleged non-citizen voting.

Los Angeles Times - 16 hours 23 min ago
The Trump administration says Social Security data may help spot noncitizens who are registered to vote.

The Guardian - 16 hours 25 min ago
The justice called out her colleagues in a speech she made at the UDC school of law, hours after Trump filed his latest request US supreme court justice Ketanji Brown Jackson acknowledged serious concerns about her colleagues' handling of emergency requests, the method Donald Trump often uses to seek approval from the court. Jackson, one of the three liberal members of the supreme court, criticized the justices' willingness to issue rulings via the "shadow docket", saying it undermines...

Daily Signal - 16 hours 30 min ago
The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Department of Homeland Security to continue its citizenship verification program. In a 6-3 shadow docket ruling in the case of DHS v. League of Women Voters, justices allowed the Trump administration to expand the program that allows states to use Social Security records and other information to check...

New York Times - 16 hours 32 min ago
The Supervisor of Elections Office in Largo, Fla., last month. The Trump administration has sought to marshal the resources of the federal government to shape who can vote and how.

The Guardian - 16 hours 41 min ago
Trump and officials claimed it combats voting by noncitizens but critics said it could disenfranchise eligible voters The US supreme court has lifted restrictions on a controversial federal database of voters as Donald Trump seeks to impose tougher restrictions on voting ahead of November's midterm elections. While the president and his officials have claimed the expanded database aims to combat voting by noncitizens, critics contend it could disenfranchise eligible voters. Continue reading...

NBC News - 16 hours 42 min ago
The Supreme Court permitted the Trump administration to expand a federal database containing citizenship information, as it encourages states to purge people from voter rolls.

Huffington Post - 16 hours 42 min ago
The unsigned decision overrules lower court decisions that blocked data matching across government agencies.

The Hill - 16 hours 51 min ago
The Supreme Court cleared the way Friday for the Trump administration to implement its overhauled immigration database, which it says is aimed at combatting voter fraud, in time for November's elections over the dissent of the liberal justices. The overhaul faced opposition from Democrats and some voting groups, and a judge had blocked it for violating...

NPR - 16 hours 53 min ago
The Supreme Court is allowing use of a data system that Trump officials overhauled. The system has erroneously flagged U.S. citizens and a lower court found it violated federal privacy protections.

NY Post - 18 hours 11 min ago
During President Trump's second term, the Justice Department has routinely used the court's so-called emergency docket to ask the justices to stay lower-court rulings blocking contentious policies.

Fox News - 18 hours 54 min ago
The Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to decide whether criminal aliens in ICE detention are entitled to bond hearings during removal.

Fox News - 19 hours 33 min ago
Ketanji Brown Jackson slammed the Supreme Court's emergency docket, warning it gives certain litigants a "fast pass" that undermines standard review.

Newser - 21 hours 20 min ago
The Supreme Court on Friday lifted restrictions on a controversial federal voter database before November's elections, granting President Trump a temporary win in his campaign against noncitizen voting. The court's three liberal-leaning justices publicly dissented from the decision, reports the AP . The emergency order allows states, for now, to use...

Newser - 22 hours 53 min ago
Supreme Court Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson says the court is leaning too hard on a tool the public barely sees. Speaking at the University of the District of Columbia on Thursday, Jackson labeled the court's growing reliance on its "emergency docket" as "problematic," arguing it lets justices quickly bless policies...