This is NOT an ok to FORCE states to use the Federal Governments database , that will have the Dept. of Homeland Security access to Federal data bases like Social Security….
The request for immigration status will be up to any state or local government unit….
Now?
Only a few Red States have made requests ….
The court mentioned a 1996 Congress passed immigration law that actually authorised DHS to ask for info from Federal Agencies….
And the court also ruled that broad requests cannot happen within 90 days of a election, except for individuall queries…
The Supreme Court on Friday cleared the way for the Trump administration to move forward with its plan to use a modified centralized database to verify voters’ citizenship. In a seven-page opinion issued just 39 days before the Nov. 3, 2026, election, the justices paused a ruling by a federal judge in Washington, D.C., that had blocked the government from doing so on the ground that it violated (among other things) federal privacy laws.
The unsigned opinion for the majority indicated that the lower court’s order “inhibits the Federal Government’s efforts to assist state and local agencies in the proper administration of the midterm elections.”
In a dissenting opinion joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson called Friday’s decision a “questionable interim ruling[] about two statutory provisions” that the Supreme Court “has never before interpreted.” She also contended that the majority “focuses only on the harms the Government will purportedly suffer absent a stay, disregarding the harms that the” use of the modified database “has caused, and will likely continue to cause, to lawful voters.”…..
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Moreover, the majority added, the federal government will suffer permanent harm (yet another factor that courts consider) if the district court’s order remains in place. Under federal immigration law, the majority reasoned, “the Federal Government has an obligation to respond to requests from state and local election officials seeking to verify the citizenship of voters. The order below prevents the Federal Government from using the program it believes is best suited to the task.”
The majority acknowledged that a different federal law, the National Voter Registration Act, bars state and local governments from systematically removing voters from their election rolls in the 90-day run-up to federal elections. “To be sure,” the majority wrote, “that moratorium limits the potential impact of staying” Sooknanan’s order. But if that order were to remain in place, the majority emphasized, state and local governments would still be barred from “conduct[ing] individualized inquiries, which are permitted under federal law during this period.”….
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