President Trump scored a major election-integrity win Friday as the Supreme Court cleared his administration to resume using an expanded federal database to help states check whether people on their voter rolls are U.S. citizens.
The unsigned order revives the administration’s expanded Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements program — better known as SAVE — while litigation over the system continues.
A federal judge had blocked the revamped program after finding the administration likely violated federal privacy law.
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The D.C. Circuit refused to lift that order earlier this month.
The Supreme Court disagreed.
Federal law requires the government to respond when state and local election officials seek to verify voters’ citizenship, the majority said. The lower-court injunction prevented Washington from using the system it considers best equipped to do it.
The administration says the expanded SAVE system has already verified more than 65 million registered voters across 26 states as U.S. citizens while flagging 28,635 potential noncitizens for further review.
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🚨BREAKING — HUGE SCOTUS WIN: The Supreme Court 6-3 has GREENLIT the Trump administration’s revamped SAVE citizenship verification database for states to PURGE the voter rolls of illegal voters during the 2026 midterms
LET’S GO!! 🔥
Liberals Jackson, Sotomayor and Kagan… pic.twitter.com/euGVMedjlZ
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) September 25, 2026
