{"id":3349,"date":"2026-06-22T21:04:58","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T21:04:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3349"},"modified":"2026-06-22T21:04:58","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T21:04:58","slug":"judge-blocks-use-of-federal-database-to-check-citizenship-saying-it-could-wrongly-purge-voters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3349","title":{"rendered":"Judge blocks use of federal database to check citizenship, saying it could wrongly purge voters"},"content":{"rendered":"<article>\n<div>\n<p><span>WASHINGTON (AP) \u2014 A federal judge on Monday ruled that a recently revamped version of a federal tool central to the Trump administration\u2019s election integrity strategy is unlawful and can no longer be used.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3347\">NBA mock draft: Predicting who goes No. 1, and who the Celtics take at No. 27<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>U.S. District Court Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan sided with advocacy groups that argued the recent upgrades to the program, called Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, aggregated Americans\u2019 sensitive personal data in a way that could result in voters being wrongly purged from voter rolls.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cAll in all, the federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote,\u201d Sooknanan said in an order explaining the decision. \u201cThis Court cannot stand idly by while that happens.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p><span>She said Congress had expressly prohibited the government from centralizing Americans\u2019 personal identifying information and that the federal agencies that created the SAVE program \u201cknew that the database violates those statutory protections.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3345\">Going to a national park this summer? Here\u2019s what to expect.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><span>The decision is a major legal setback for President Donald Trump in his efforts to use federal agencies to encourage a nationwide crackdown on noncitizens illegally on state voter rolls. The modified SAVE system, which critics had referred to as an unlawful centralized federal database of voter information, had been a key pillar of the second election executive order the Republican president signed earlier this year. The ruling leaves its future uncertain.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>\u201cIt\u2019s amazing how hard the Left will fight to stop us from solving problems they insist do not exist,\u201d James Percival, general counsel at the Department of Homeland Security, said of the ruling in a social media post.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Calls to the Justice Department and Department of Homeland Security were not immediately returned.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/bostonrelocationinsider.com\/?p=3343\">Former Bruins captain Patrice Bergeron elected to Hockey Hall of Fame in first year of eligibility<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The judge sided with advocacy groups that urged recent upgrades to the program aggregated Americans\u2019 sensitive personal data in a way that could result in voters being wrongly purged from voter rolls.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3348,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3349","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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