Supreme Court Clears Way For Trump Admin To Boot Illegal Aliens From Voter Rolls

The Supreme Court cleared the way Friday for the Department of Homeland Security to resume using an expanded Social Security cross-check system to confirm the citizenship of registered voters, over dissents from Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. The Associated Press noted the ruling will likely have little practical effect on the midterms, since most states bar purging voter rolls within 90 days of an election, according to Daily Caller.

The tool, known as SAVE, was created to stop non-citizens from collecting government benefits; the administration widened its use in 2025 so it could also help verify voter eligibility, a shift that brought at least 67 million registrations under review. In June, U.S. District Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan, an appointee of President Biden, had paused the program, citing risks that lawful citizens could lose their registrations and that privacy would suffer. The majority relied on a 1996 immigration statute requiring federal agencies to assist state and local officials verifying citizenship, while Jackson countered in dissent that disenfranchising even a handful of lawful voters causes more harm than any burden on the government.

The decision follows a string of related prosecutions. On Sept. 18 the Justice Department announced charges against 16 people in Massachusetts, Texas, Idaho, Georgia, Wisconsin, New Jersey and Michigan for illegal voting, falsely claiming citizenship to register, or related fraud. Separately, immigration agents took Mariana Alexandra Dewey into custody Sept. 1, alleging she cast a ballot in the 2024 presidential election despite being in the country illegally.

Summarized by PolitiKool from Daily Caller’s reporting. Read the full story at Daily Caller →