The Department of Justice (DOJ) cannot take the names of registered voters and compare them against a federal immigration database, a federal judge has ruled.
U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, based in Washington, handed down an order on Oct. 9 against the department.
The DOJ has been requesting lists of registered voters from states and, after obtaining them, checking them against the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements service, which contains citizenship information.
When people are identified as registered to vote despite not being citizens—according to the SAVE database—the DOJ has been demanding that states remove them from voter rolls….