Department of Homeland Security v. League of Women Voters · ¶28

Until 2025, SAVE did not have access to natural-born citizens’ records, and it only accessed immigration and naturalization records in DHS’s systems (and occasionally, in systems at the State Department and the Department of Justice). Users could also only conduct individual searches, usually by way of a person’s alien-identification number. 835 F. Supp. 3d 79, 102–103 (DC 2026). In 2025, however, President Trump signed an Executive Order purporting to target voting by noncitizens in federal elections that, among other things, directed SSA to share its databases with state and local election officials for the purposes of voter verification. The Order required this information-sharing even though the Social Security Act dictates that “[s]ocial security account numbers and related records . . . shall be confidential, and no authorized person shall disclose any such social security account…

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