Supreme Court Ruling on Voter Verification

All right. As we know more about that, the breaking news from the Supreme Court.

The Trump administration will now be allowed to use a DHS citizenship

database to review voter rolls in their search for non-citizen voters.

The ruling reverses a lower court decision,

which had said the administration's

effort likely broke the law. This is an unsigned opinion,

meaning we don't know

who exactly was in the majority here.

We do know the three liberal justices dissented.

Gabe Cohen has been covering every single step of this story and joins me now.

Gabe, talk about what the administration

is actually planning to do

now that they have this green light.

Yeah. So Phil, uh, the short answer is we don't know e- exactly what they're

planning to do ahead of the midterms, and we are still going through the,

through

this ruling. But I will tell you off the bat,

the question at play here that the

Supreme Court needed to answer was whether or not the administration

broke the

law when it beefed up this SAVE citizenship verification

system over the past 18 months, bringing in various records, federal

records from other agencies, Social Security data, including

data on US-born citizens, whether or not they had broken the law

to create this system that states could then r- run their voter

registration lists through in this hunt for non-citizens

who might be registered. Remember, this has been a massive initiative of this

administration as the president has continued to claim, without significant

evidence, that there is this widespread crisis of not just

election fraud,

but of non-citizens voting. And we know that about two dozen

Republican-led states have actually run their voter lists through this system

until the courts, uh, paused it to figure out whether

or not this was even

legal. And we also know that the Department of Justice has sued to

require to order 30 other states to hand over those

lists so that the federal government could audit them.

I do wanna read you a bit of that unsigned, uh, majority opinion,

which said that under the federal law, uh, under federal law I should say, "The

federal government has an obligation to respond to requests

from state and local election officials seeking to verify the

citizenship of voters." The lower court, uh, order, the

Supreme Court said, had prevented the federal government from

using

the program that it believes it is, it, that it is best

suited for the task of being able to identify these

non-citizens who may be registered to vote.

The dissent that came from those three liberal justices, uh, it

said, "The harm caused by burdening or disenfranchising even a

few lawful voters outweighs the nonexistent

harm that the government experiences when it, uh, is prevented from

taking an action that it likely lacks the authority to

take." And that,

Phil-