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‘Don’t overreact’: Anti-Trump attorney reassures left SC ruling prevents mass removal of ineligible voters

September 26, 2026 | | Print Article

A zealously anti-Trump attorney’s response to the Supreme Court restoring an immigration database that President Donald Trump wants to use to verify that voters are citizens is raising some serious concerns.

In March, the president signed an executive order directing his administration to establish a much-needed database that individual states could use to determine whether voters were citizens or not.

The admin specifically “modified the Department of Homeland Security’s Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements database, known as the SAVE system,” to create the database, according to SCOTUSblog.

Leftists, who for the most part seem to WANT illegal aliens to vote in U.S. elections, immediately filed suit.

“On June 22, U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan agreed with the challengers that the modified SAVE system violates federal privacy laws, the Social Security Act, and the federal laws governing administrative agencies, and she barred the government from using it,” SCOTUSblog notes.

Sooknanan alleged in her ruling that “the federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote” and that “states have partnered with the federal government to access the database and are actively removing United States citizens from voter rolls based on inaccurate information.”

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U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer pushed back hard by asking the Supreme Court to freeze the ruling.

He reportedly argued that her ruling was an “indefensible order that threatens the integrity of upcoming elections by vacating the federal government’s authority to internally use Social Security data when fulfilling its duty to respond to requests by States to verify the citizenship of individuals for voting and other purposes.”

The Supreme Court ultimately agreed with Sauer.

“The majority rejected the challengers’ contention that the use of the modified SAVE system violates the Social Security Act, the Privacy Act, and the federal law governing administrative agencies,” according to SCOTUSblog.

The ruling prompted apocalyptic cries on the nutjob left:

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However, there was at least one voice of calm. Norm Eisen, a ludicrously anti-Trump nutter, wrote in a tweet that his fellow leftists should not “overreact” to the Supreme Court’s decision.

“Page 6 of the decision makes clear that we are in the 90 day statutory window when mass changes can’t be made to voter lists!” he wrote. “It’s a sh*t decision for the reasons the 3 dissenters say but we can deal w/it. More to come..”

Look:

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So to recap, he argues that though the database can move forward, states may allegedly not use it to remove illegal aliens and others from the voter rolls this election cycle because of some “statutory” bullcrap.

In other words, leftists should be happy because, despite the ruling, states will allegedly be required to leave ineligible voters on their voting rolls for now.

The response to Eisen’s tweet was shock, of course, with non-leftists wondering why in the world this would be a good thing.

Look:

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