Independent Voter News: Big Brother or Ballot Security? The Supreme Court Just Picked a Side, For Now

“The Trump administration also has a statute on its side, or believes it does. A 1996 immigration law says no one may block citizenship information from reaching DHS, “notwithstanding any other provision” of law, which is lawyer’s language for no matter what any other law says. The Supreme Court’s majority found that argument likely to prevail.”

“The challengers, led by the League of Women Voters and the Electronic Privacy Information Center, tell a different story. Congress wrote the Privacy Act of 1974 largely out of fear that federal agencies would pool their records into one enormous file on every citizen. When Congress returned to the subject in 1988, it said plainly that its rules did not authorize “a national data bank.”

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