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Judge thwarts Trump in new ruling: System 'knowingly trampled' on rights of Americans
Federal Power Used as a Purge MachineThe Story in One SentenceA federal judge blocked the Trump administration’s 2025 overhaul of the SAVE immigration database after Texas used it to flag and threaten the registrations of citizens, including naturalized voters, based on unreliable data that the court found had been repurposed in ways that endangered privacy and voting rights.Who Actually Held the LeversThe power in this story did not sit with the voters who were forced to prove they were citizens, or with county officials asked to clean up a mess they did not create. It sat with the federal…
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