{"id":34963,"date":"2026-06-22T21:52:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T21:52:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/judge-says-trump-cant-use-social-security-data-for-voter-roll-purges\/"},"modified":"2026-06-22T21:52:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T21:52:16","slug":"judge-says-trump-cant-use-social-security-data-for-voter-roll-purges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/2026\/06\/22\/judge-says-trump-cant-use-social-security-data-for-voter-roll-purges\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge says Trump can\u2019t use Social Security data for voter roll purges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-editable=\"content\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" data-reorderable=\"content\">\n<div data-editable=\"aiSummary\" class=\"article__ai-summary-wrapper\">\n<div data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/ai-article-summary\/instances\/cmqpm2z21000m3b6r4jexqevb@published\" class=\"ai-article-summary hidden  \" 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<span class=\"ai-article-summary__toggle-caret-up\" aria-label=\"Toggle Article Summary\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"icon-ui-caret-up\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path d=\"M12.478 6.21a.637.637 0 00-.946 0L2.206 16.229c-.225.243-.28.633-.093.91.237.355.7.385.975.089l8.917-9.579 8.878 9.537c.225.243.589.301.847.101a.721.721 0 00.082-1.048L12.478 6.211z\"\/><\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n            <span class=\"ai-article-summary__toggle-caret-down\" aria-label=\"Toggle Article Summary\"><svg xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"icon-ui-caret-down\" width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewbox=\"0 0 24 24\"><path d=\"M12.478 17.218a.637.637 0 01-.946 0L2.206 7.2c-.225-.242-.28-.632-.093-.91a.613.613 0 01.975-.088l8.917 9.579 8.878-9.538c.225-.242.589-.3.847-.1.33.255.357.752.082 1.048l-9.334 10.027z\"\/><\/svg><br \/>\n<\/span><br \/>\n    <\/button><\/p>\n<div class=\"ai-article-summary__collapsible\">\n<ul class=\"ai-article-summary__items\" data-editable=\"settings\">\n<li class=\"ai-article-summary__item\">A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration violated privacy protections by expanding a citizenship verification program with Social Security data.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ai-article-summary__item\">The decision halts the government&#8217;s use of the enhanced system to identify noncitizens on state voter rolls.<\/li>\n<li class=\"ai-article-summary__item\">Voter advocates say the program can wrongly flag eligible citizens and threaten their ability to cast ballots.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>\n            <span class=\"ai-article-summary__disclaimer-text\">AI-generated summary was reviewed by a CNN editor.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmqpkslm5004027qbbmp67sby@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The Trump administration violated federal privacy protections when it overhauled a citizen data program so that it could be used more aggressively to purge voter rolls, a federal judge said Monday.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmqplekmu00053b6rotg9y3i8@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The <a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.285454\/gov.uscourts.dcd.285454.111.0_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">ruling<\/a> from US District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan is a major setback for President Donald Trump\u2019s effort to find foreigners on state voter lists \u2014 an effort voter advocates and election officials say can wrongly ensnare citizens, risking the disenfranchisement of eligible voters. Sooknanan\u2019s order halts the use of the expanded data system.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmqplekmu00063b6rf068m915@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cAll in all, the federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote. This Court cannot stand idly by while that happens,\u201d said Sooknanan, an appointee of President Joe Biden.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmqplekmu00073b6rp4wqoncd@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The case centered on the federal data program known as SAVE \u2014 or the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements \u2014 that has long been used by the government to verify citizenship for public benefits, but has also been offered to election officials to check voter rolls for noncitizens.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmqplekmu00083b6r60srxurb@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            In the early months of Trump\u2019s second term, his administration beefed up the program by expanding the types of data fed into the system, adding Social Security data and data from other agency sources.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmqplekmu00093b6rrpmetgjv@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Sooknanan wrote in her ruling Monday that the administration knew the revamp of SAVE violated privacy protections passed by Congress, but went forward with it anyway as part of a scramble \u201cto comply with an Executive Order aimed at reshaping federal elections, which directed them to create a system for mass voter verification.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmqplekmu000a3b6rgwhumqhj@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            Since the overhaul, the administration has both encouraged states to use it, and as CNN reported Monday, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnn.com\/2026\/06\/22\/politics\/homeland-security-grants-election-changes\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">now seeks to punish states that don\u2019t<\/a>.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmqplekmu000b3b6rujd0roj6@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The Justice Department has also gone on an unprecedented campaign to collect each state\u2019s unredacted voter registration file so the federal government can check the rolls against the citizenship data program. A more recent executive order by Trump also instructs the Department of Homeland Security to use SAVE and other federal data sources to assemble lists of voting-age citizens for each state.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmqplekmu000c3b6rru0abphk@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            It\u2019s unclear how this new ruling will impact those projects on a practical level, but some of those maneuvers were already facing pushback in court in other lawsuits.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmqplekmv000d3b6rxhm0p4rr@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            DHS General Counsel James Percival panned the ruling.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmqpq28fr00013b6rrmqnryby@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cIt\u2019s amazing how hard the Left will fight to stop us from solving problems they insist do not exist. Judge Sparkle Soknanan\u2019s latest ruling preventing DHS from addressing alien voting is just the latest example!\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/DHSGenCounsel\/status\/2069150657693540396\" target=\"_blank\">Percival said on X<\/a>.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmqplekmv000e3b6rr3mfw5rg@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            The case before Sooknanan was brought by several voter advocacy organizations and a privacy group. The challengers argued that their privacy rights were being harmed and that their members faced the threat of being wrongly identified as noncitizens, because of how the SAVE system can be outdated or inaccurate.\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmqplekmv000f3b6rgr77ppa5@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            \u201cAs the Trump-Vance administration continues its attack on the right to vote, this is an important victory for the American people and our democracy,\u201d said Skye Perryman, president and CEO of Democracy Forward, which represented the challengers. \u201cThe data at the heart of this lawsuit was unlawfully consolidated in violation of privacy laws intended to protect sensitive personal information.\u201d\n    <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph-elevate inline-placeholder vossi-paragraph_elevate\" data-uri=\"cms.cnn.com\/_components\/paragraph\/instances\/cmqpq3pdp00033b6rmp4eujcu@published\" data-editable=\"text\" data-component-name=\"paragraph\" data-article-gutter=\"true\">\n            <em>This story has been updated with additional details.<\/em>\n    <\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Summary A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration violated privacy protections by expanding a citizenship verification program with Social<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34964,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_animmysite_disable_animation":false,"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/media.cnn.com\/api\/v1\/images\/stellar\/prod\/2026-04-27t170303z-557619832-rc2txkavj8ec-rtrmadp-3-usa-trump-dinner-suspect.jpg?c=16x9&q=w_800,c_fill","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-34963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-usa-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34963","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/trendifyhubusa.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}