Federal Appeals Court Upholds Ban on Trump’s Bid to Use Citizenship Data for Voter Checks - Regional Media News

Appeals Court Rejects Trump Bid to Use Immigration Database for Voter Checks

Booths await Maine voters to cast their ballots at a polling station inside the Portland Exposition Building in Bangor, Maine, on June 9, 2026. (C.J. Gunther/Getty Images)

Federal appeals court upholds ban on Trump’s bid to use citizenship data for voter checks - Regional Media News

Sept 5 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court panel rejected the Trump administration's bid to lift a ban on using a federal immigration database to check the accuracy of citizenship records on states' voter rolls. In a 2-1 ruling on Friday, the U.S. Court of [...]

D.C. Circuit, on 2-1 Party Line Vote, Refuses to Put on Hold Lower Court Order Barring Trump Administration from Rolling Out Revised "SAVE" Database to Allow States to to Check Voters' Citizenship via Bulk Searches #ELB

You can find the 53 pages of an opinion and dissent at this link. This one too may be SCOTUS-bound.

Appeals Court Blocks Citizenship Database From Voter-Roll Checks

A federal appeals court has preserved a nationwide block on using the expanded SAVE citizenship database for broad voter-roll checks ahead of the November midterms.

Here We Go Again: Rogue Judges Block Election Safeguard to Stop Illegal Voting

Federal court blocks expanded SAVE system, halting election safeguard against illegal voting in 2026.