Supreme Court allows Trump administration to use citizenship database for voter checks

The U.S. Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to use a federal database to check whether registered voters are citizens. The court voted 6-3, with conservative justices in favour and liberal justices against. The database is called SAVE. It was created in 1986 to confirm that people applying for public benefits were citizens. The Trump administration expanded it so that states could search voter records using social security numbers. A federal judge blocked this expanded version in June, saying it broke privacy laws and could remove eligible voters wrongly. The Supreme Court paused that block. The majority said a 1996 law clearly permits the government to share citizenship information between federal agencies.