Department of Homeland Security v. League of Women Voters · ¶16

By prohibiting interference with the disclosure of information regarding citizenship status to DHS— “[n]otwithstanding any other provision of Federal, State, or local law”—Congress necessarily authorized DHS to request and receive that information. Otherwise, agencies, entities, and officials could find themselves in the impossible predicament of either disclosing information consistent with section 1373 but in violation of legislation like the Social Security Act and Privacy Act or withholding that information consistent with those Acts but in violation of section 1373. It is improbable that Congress intended to place officials in such a bind when it passed IIRIRA, so section 1373 likely supersedes restrictions on disclosure elsewhere in the Code.

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