Fact-Check Finds No Evidence for Trump's Claim of 278,000 Non-Citizens on Voter Rolls, Despite Push for New Voting Law: full timeline

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  1. Fact-Check Finds No Evidence for Trump's Claim of 278,000 Non-Citizens on Voter Rolls, Despite Push for New Voting Law

    A DHS review claiming 278,000 non-citizens are registered to vote relies on flawed database matching that flags naturalized citizens.

  2. DOJ Sues 29 States and D.C. for Refusal to Provide Unredacted Voter Registration Lists

    The Justice Department has launched an unprecedented legal effort to obtain unredacted voter rolls from across the country, sparking a major federalism and privacy clash.

  3. Supreme Court Faces Emergency Appeal to Revive National Citizenship Database for Midterms

    The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to reinstate a modified federal database that pools Social Security and immigration records to verify voter citizenship ahead of the November elections.

  4. Supreme Court Allows Trump Administration to Use Expanded SAVE Database for Voter Citizenship Checks

    In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court granted an emergency request allowing the Trump administration to use a modified federal immigration database to verify the citizenship of registered voters ahead of the midterm…

  5. Federal Judge Strikes Down Justice Department Policy Collecting State Voter Rolls

    A federal court has blocked the Justice Department from demanding state voter registration lists for a national citizenship database, ruling the effort exceeds congressional authorization.

  6. Federal Agents Arrest 11 Across California in Non-Citizen Voting Probe

    The Justice Department has charged 28 lawful permanent residents in California with election offenses, escalating a legal battle over the state's voter rolls ahead of the midterms.