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🚨 BREAKING: In a major loss for voters, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 to allow the Trump administration to initiate voter roll purges using a flawed database involving Americans' private data. The ruling will disproportionately impact naturalized citizens who've been wrongly flagged in the system.

In a scathing dissent, Justice Jackson, joined by Justices Sotomayor and Kagan, wrote: "The Court focuses only on the harms the Government will purportedly suffer absent a stay, disregarding the harms that the modified SAVE system has caused, and will likely continue to cause, to lawful voters."

Jackson: "The 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."

Jackson: "Even more concerning is the majority’s omission of any consideration of the harms that might occur if the modified SAVE system is allowed to continue operating...[like] the risk that States might cancel the voter registrations of at least some recently naturalized citizens."

Whatever happened to voting belonging to the states?

Sorry, what? How does this list impact who can vote? I am in disbelief but also denial. There was a story today that of the hundreds of thousands of people DHS flagged in NV as noncitizen voters, zero (0) were in fact ineligible to vote.

They’re just gonna remove people from the rolls now.

State officials would have to, but with decisions like this they have reason to be encouraged.

I’m gonna need you to talk me down on this one, Marc. I’m so furious.

If it's any consolation, (my understanding is) the federal government can't make states use the database, so only the ones that are trying to hobble voting by people of color will.