The US Supreme Court revived on Friday an expanded immigration database that President Donald Trump’s administration said aims to combat voting by noncitizens but critics contend could disenfranchise eligible voters.

The justices ​granted the Justice Department’s request to block a judge’s order that had stopped state officials from using Social Security numbers and other information to conduct sweeping checks of ‌the citizenship status of registered voters against federal records.

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    This is set up to destroy democratic areas.

    In their Supreme Court filing, the advocacy groups cited a Travis ⁠County, Texas, election official who said 25% of the system’s noncitizen matches there involved people who had already proven their US citizenship, and news reports finding that at least 81% of the system’s responses in St. Louis County, Missouri, were erroneous.

    Both counties are deeply democratic strongholds in magat states

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    Remember, if the dems win the midterms, trump and his family/minions aren’t the only people they’re going to look into. 5 of SCOTUS seemed to have taken bribes. If you need the sources, ask and I’ll dig them up.