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    "parsed_content": "liveUpdatesSept. 25, 2026, 12:30 p.m. ETJust nowWhen to Vote in Your StateLatest PollsCompetitive RacesSeat PickupsAdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSupported bySKIP ADVERTISEMENTSupreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of MidtermsCritics of the Trump administration system to monitor the citizenship status of voters had raised alarms about privacy and improper voter purges.Listen \u00b7 3:54 min Share full articleThe Supervisor of Elections Office in Largo, Fla., last month. The Trump administration has sought to marshal the resources of the federal government to shape who can vote and how.Credit...Zack Wittman for The New York TimesBy Abbie VanSickleReporting from WashingtonSept. 25, 2026, 11:49 a.m. ETSee more of our coverage in your search results.Encuentra m\u00e1s de nuestra cobertura en los resultados de b\u00fasqueda. Add The New York Times on GoogleAgrega The New York Times en Google The Supreme Court ruled on Friday that the Trump administration can deploy an expansive online system that combines citizenship information, Social Security numbers and other sensitive data about millions of Americans, including to allow states to use it to hunt for ineligible voters.Critics fear that using the system could result in the purging of large numbers of valid voters from state rolls, if states choose to use it ahead of the midterm elections.The majority concluded that a lower-court ruling that had blocked the Trump administration from rolling out the system was improper because it inhibited \u201cthe federal government\u2019s efforts to assist state and local agencies in the proper administration of the midterm elections.\u201dThe emergency ruling was unsigned and gave no vote count, but the court\u2019s three liberal justices joined in dissent. The ruling was a victory for the Trump administration as it tries to marshal the resources of the federal government to shape who can vote, and how. The effort has prompted legal challenges ahead of November\u2019s midterm elections.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTIn a 12-page dissent, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson emphasized that the majority\u2019s decision created the conditions for some states to cancel the voter registrations of at least some recently naturalized citizens or to force them to provide proof of citizenship before voting.\u201cThe harm caused by burdening or disenfranchising even a few lawful voters outweighs the nonexistent harm that the government experiences when it is prevented from taking an action that it likely lacks the authority to take,\u201d she wrote, joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan.The decision came after the justices had dealt the administration a major setback this month, when the court\u2019s majority blocked the government\u2019s plan to require the Postal Service to screen mail-in ballots.Got a news tip about the courts?\u00a0If you have information to share about the Supreme Court or other federal courts, please contact us.See how to send a secure message at nytimes.com\/tipsThat loss frustrated President Trump, who assailed the court in a social media post, accusing it of \u201cshockingly bad rulings that are of such magnitude that it won\u2019t be easily possible for our Country to recover or heal.\u201dIn March 2025, Mr. Trump signed an executive order directing several federal agencies, including the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration, to pool their records into an online tool that state and local officials could use to verify the citizenship and immigration status of registered voters.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENTSign up for the Docket newsletter. Adam Liptak helps you make sense of legal developments in a turbulent time. Get it sent to your inbox.It is illegal for noncitizens to vote in federal elections. Mr. Trump has long claimed, without evidence, that large numbers of noncitizens have managed to register and then illegally vote.Mr. Trump\u2019s directive prompted the Department of Homeland Security to overhaul the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system, which had long been used by local, state and tribal agencies to check the citizenship and immigration status of people seeking some types of benefits and licenses. The expanded system pulled in Social Security data and other records.Several legal challenges followed, including a lawsuit by voting rights groups.In June, a federal judge in Washington blocked the Trump administration from allowing states to use the online system to screen their voter rolls.Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan, who was appointed by President Joseph R. Biden Jr., found that in \u201cscrambling to comply with an executive order aimed at reshaping federal elections,\u201d federal agencies \u201chaphazardly combined and repurposed the private information of millions of Americans, including citizenship data that they knew to be unreliable.\u201dNicholas Nehamas and Ann E. Marimow contributed reporting.AdvertisementSKIP ADVERTISEMENT",
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