Roberts Hands Trump Your Social Security Number and a Purge List
What. The. Actual. Fuck.
The Roberts Supreme Court just handed the most corrupt president in American history the keys to destroying American democracy — giving Trump access to Social Security numbers and a tool to purge voter rolls at scale.
On Friday the Supreme Court let this fascist authoritarian regime use an expanded citizenship database to check registrations, lifting a lower-court order while the case continues. The split was 6–3.
The administration stuffed Social Security data into SAVE so officials can search by Social Security number and run bulk checks of voter rolls. Critics have already warned the system flags eligible voters. In at least one county, a chunk of people tagged as noncitizens turned out to be U.S. citizens.
The unsigned ruling notes the National Voter Registration Act still bars broad purges in the weeks before an election, which "limits the potential impact" this year. That is the court's idea of a comfort. A flawed federal database of Americans' private information is still back online for states that want to use it.
Mark Elias called it what it is: a dangerous decision for voters. The Court authorized the Trump regime to turn a federal immigration database into a vast, centralized, deeply flawed pile of personal data that can be used to kick people off the rolls.
This is not "election integrity." It is a permission slip for the fascist authoritarian regime to commit the most grievous anti-democratic crimes imaginable. Our Founding Fathers are rolling in their graves.