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Trump asks Supreme Court to allow voter verification database

Tuesday, September 8, 2026 82° Today's Paper Today • Last updated 11:07 a.m. Supreme Court in Washington, D.C., on Sept. President Donald Trump’s administration asked the U.S. Supreme Court today to allow it to use a revamped immigration database for checking the accuracy of state voter rolls, one of a series of actions that would boost federal involvement in voting ahead of November’s midterm elections. WASHINGTON >> President Donald Trump’s administration asked the U.S.

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Supreme Court to intervene, despite the law being clear that (the Department of Homeland Security’s) actions cannot continue,” Perryman said in a statement today. Since then, several Republican-led states have compared their voter lists to the database and canceled the registrations of registered voters flagged as noncitizens.

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