Supreme Court Makes SHOCKING RULING on Trump MIDTERM SCHEME...

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Attorneys Brian Kabateck and Shant Karnikian break down the Supreme Court's 6-3 shadow docket ruling in DHS v. League of Women Voters, which revives the Trump administration's expanded SAVE citizenship-verification database just six weeks before the midterms — but in a way that leaves it largely toothless for this election. Brian and Shant explain that SAVE, created in the 1980s to verify eligibility for federal benefits, was overhauled by DHS to merge Social Security Administration records and allow bulk citizenship checks, prompting the League of Women Voters, the Electronic Privacy Information Center, and other groups to sue, alleging violations of the Privacy Act, the Social Security Act, and the Administrative Procedure Act. U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan vacated the modified system in June 2026, and the D.C. Circuit refused to stay her ruling 2-1, but the Supreme Court's unsigned per curiam order found the challengers' claims "likely lack merit" because a 1996 federal stat