The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to lift a lower court order barring the implementation of a voter verification system that would combine Social Security information with citizenship records.
The administration modified the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements database last year to combine citizenship and Social Security records to improve the speed and reliability of verifying a person’s citizenship status. The change was met with lawsuits from left-wing groups that argued it violated privacy laws, among other federal statutes. A federal district judge ruled in favor of the groups suing the administration in June, a ruling that a federal appeals court panel affirmed last week. Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued that the high court should halt the “indefensible order,” which he claims “threatens the integrity of upcoming elections” by unlawfully limiting the federal government’s authority to use Social Security data.
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