Supreme Court allows Trump admin to use citizenship database ahead of midterms
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'Ruling 6-3'
SUMMARY

The Supreme Court has cleared the Trump administration to use a federal citizenship database to verify voters ahead of the midterm elections.

Ruling 6-3 along ideological lines, the justices lifted a lower court order that had blocked the Department of Homeland Security from expanding the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system, a 40-year-old immigration database, to help states screen voter records for noncitizens.

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