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The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to intervene in a lawsuit over the use of a controversial data system to review state voter rolls.
Voting rights organizations had challenged a Trump administration overhaul of a government database, arguing it could be used to disenfranchise eligible voters.
NYTimes – US The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to intervene in a lawsuit over the use of a controversial data system to review state voter rolls.
The U.S. Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to use an overhauled data system to review state voter rolls using citizenship information and other sensitive data to filter alleged non-citizen voting. The system had previously been found by a lower court to violate federal privacy protections and has erroneously flagged U.S. citizens.
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NYTimes – US The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to intervene in a lawsuit over the use of a controversial data system to review state voter rolls.
NYTimes – US Andrew Bailey, a deputy director of the FBI, is stepping down after about a year in the role. Bailey was part of a three-person leadership team and had overseen some election-related investigations. He was originally brought in to help ease tensions between former Attorney General Pam Bondi and former FBI Deputy Director Dan Bongino.
NPR – US One of the youngest women sent to death row is set to be executed in Tennessee. If carried out as scheduled Wednesday, it would be Tennessee's first execution of a woman in 200 years.
NYTimes – US Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. had faced pressure to recuse himself from the climate case because he owns stock in oil companies.
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