The Supreme Court ruled Friday that states can use a citizenship data tool that the Trump administration has pushed for checking voter rolls, marking a win for the president's push to identify non-citizen voters. The court issued an unsigned opinion rejecting claims that the administration broke the law by making it easier for officials to use the data system, known as Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements or SAVE, to check voters' citizenship. At the same time, the opinion stressed that the program is meant for "individualized" checks as an election nears and suggested that federal law bars sweeping purges close to Election Day. The majority wrote that under federal law, the federal government must respond to requests from state and local election officials who want to verify a voter's citizenship. It said the lower court's order "prevents the federal government from using the program it believes is best suited to the task." Sagar is a journalist with an interest primarily in geopolitics and American domestic politics. Before joining Times Now, he wrote for Republic and Sw... View More