The Bizarre Court Battle Trapping Trump’s Voter Database

“Two federal judges have ordered the Department of Homeland Security to do the opposite thing, at the same time. This summer, conflicting court rulings over the use of Social Security numbers in a citizenship database have created an unusual legal dilemma within President Donald Trump’s aggressive push to create a voter verification system,” NOTUS reports.

“Last month, a federal judge in Washington sided with voting and privacy groups to halt government changes to the database, including a Social Security number search, ruling it ‘flunked compliance’ with federal Social Security and privacy laws.”

“Days later, another federal judge in Florida ordered the government to reinstate those very features, when it comes to four states, finding that complying with the Washington ruling violated a settlement agreement in a separate lawsuit.”