The US Supreme Court has granted a Trump administration request to allow the use of a federal database to verify voter rolls and identify potential non-citizens. The unsigned opinion was supported by a majority of the nine justices, with the three liberal justices dissenting. The decision lifts a lower court order that had blocked the use of the Department of Homeland Security's Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program for citizenship verification of individuals on voter rolls. The ruling is a victory for President Donald Trump ahead of the November mid-term elections.
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