The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to allow it to use its overhauled citizenship verification system ahead of the midterm elections.
In an application, the Department of Homeland Security argues that a lower court ruling that blocked the use of Social Security numbers and other information in the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, or SAVE, system, “threatens the integrity of upcoming elections.”
DHS revamped the system after President Donald Trump’s executive order in March 2025 aimed at rooting out potential noncitizen voters, although there is no evidence of large numbers of noncitizens voting in U.S. elections.