Source: New York Post
A DC federal judge blocked the Trump administration Monday from consulting a revamped database of personal information, warning that the White House had “knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote. ” The Department of Homeland Security upgraded its so-called Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system in response to President Trump’s March 2025 executive order meant to ensure only Americans vote in national elections. Following the order, DHS made changes to SAVE that included adding natural-born US citizens to the register and allowing bulk searches of the database using names, birthdays and Social Security numbers rather than DHS-issued identification numbers 3 President Trump in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, DC, on June 22, 2026.
