As noted above, the Supreme Court has been asked on its interim docket to weigh in on a dispute over whether an updated version of the Department of Homeland Security’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, system can be used to verify the citizenship status of registered voters. The Trump administration claims that using the SAVE system in this way will benefit states as they assess their voter rolls and support the federal government’s effort to combat election fraud. However, a federal judge in Washington, D.C., agreed with voting-rights and privacy-rights organizations that using the SAVE service for this purpose violates restrictions on how the government handles data. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit subsequently declined to put that decision on hold.
The Trump administration’s emergency application in the case was widely covered on Tuesday, but headlines varied quite a bit from outlet to outlet. Here’s a sampling of headlines used to describe the dispute:
Bloomberg: Supreme Court Asked to Enter Voter Verification System Fight
Reuters: Trump asks Supreme Court to allow voter verification database that was blocked by judge
CBS News: Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow use of database to check voters’ citizenship
The Wall Street Journal: Trump Officials Ask High Court to Allow Immigration Database for Voter Scrutiny
The New York Times: Trump Administration Asks Supreme Court to Allow Voter-Screening Tool
The Hill: DHS asks Supreme Court to reinstate overhauled immigration tool for midterms
Courthouse News Service: Feds demand revival of national citizenship database ahead of midterms
CNN: Trump asks Supreme Court to revive controversial system used for voter purges
The Washington Times: DHS asks Supreme Court to revive database to screen out noncitizen voters