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华盛顿——特朗普政府周二请求最高法院介入一起诉讼，允许在中期选举前使用一套有争议的数据系统审查各州选民登记册。
今年6月，一名联邦法官裁定特朗普政府创建一个名为“系统性外国人权益核查系统”（简称SAVE）的中央数据库的行为非法，该数据库包含美国公民的私人信息。美国地区法官斯帕克尔·苏克南南表示，部分州利用该数据库错误地将美国公民从选民登记册中移除。
该系统是特朗普政府在全国范围内推动查找联邦选举中非公民投票的广泛证据的举措之一，但这类说法基本已被揭穿，且证据显示非公民投票的情况极为罕见。
苏克南南在裁决中表示，联邦政府试图推行SAVE系统的行为“故意践踏美国公民的隐私权，这种行为威胁到神圣的投票权”。她认定特朗普政府在试图推行SAVE系统的过程中违反了三项不同的联邦法律。
上周末，哥伦比亚特区巡回上诉法院驳回了特朗普政府暂缓执行地区法院对SAVE数据库禁令的请求。
在周二提交的新文件中，美国副检察长D.约翰·佐尔称苏克南南的裁决“站不住脚”，并表示该裁决“威胁到即将到来的选举的公正性”。他还称该法官越权，且提起最初诉讼的投票权团体不具备合法的诉讼资格。佐尔请求最高法院解除苏克南南的禁令，允许使用SAVE系统。
“SAVE系统不会取消任何选民的资格；相反，它只是通知各州联邦政府能否确认该选民的公民身份，”佐尔写道。“因此，任何对选民造成的伤害都是由各州造成的，而非联邦政府，而且法院针对联邦政府作出的裁决也无法弥补这类伤害。”
此次新请求提出之前，特朗普政府刚刚再次请求最高法院恢复即将到来的中期选举中邮政服务的邮件投票新规。
SAVE数据库是由多个联邦机构创建的，以回应特朗普先生去年签署的一项行政命令，该命令旨在为登记投票的人增设新的公民身份证明要求。该行政命令指示国土安全部和社会保障管理局创建一个数据库，使州和地方官员能够有效核实试图登记投票的个人的公民身份或移民身份。
这项行政命令引发了多起法律诉讼，其关键条款已被叫停。
尽管如此，该指令还是触发了对现有SAVE系统的全面改革。该系统被修改为包含本土出生公民的记录；可以访问社会保障管理局的记录，包括社会保险号码；并允许使用该数据库的实体进行批量记录查询。
Trump administration asks Supreme Court to allow use of database to check voters’ citizenship
September 8, 2026 1:58 PM EDT / CBS News
Washington— The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to intervene in a lawsuit and allow the use of a controversial data system to review state voter rolls heading into the midterm elections.
In June, a federal judge ruled the Trump administration acted unlawfully when it created a centralized database, known as “Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements,” or SAVE, that contains Americans’ private information. U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan said the database was used by some states to incorrectly remove U.S. citizens from their voter rolls.
The system was part of President Trump’s government-wide push to find proof of widespread instances of noncitizens voting in federal elections, which have largely been debunked and shown to be very rare.
Sooknanan said in her ruling that the “federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote,” by attempting to implement the SAVE system. Sooknanan found that the administration violated three different federal laws by attempting to implement the SAVE system.
Over the weekend, the Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit denied the Trump administration’s request to stay the district court’s block on the SAVE database.
In a new filing Tuesday, Solicitor General D. John Sauer called Sooknanan’s ruling “indefensible” and said it “threatens the integrity of upcoming elections.” He also said the judge exceeded her authority and that the voting rights groups that brought the initial lawsuit did not have proper legal standing to sue. Sauer asked the justices to lift Sooknanan’s stay and allow the use of the SAVE system.
“SAVE does not disqualify any voter; instead, it merely notifies the States whether the federal government can confirm citizenship,” Sauer wrote. “Thus, any voter injury is caused by the States, not by the federal government, and would not be redressed by the relief the court entered against the federal government.”
The new request comes after the Trump administration again asked the Supreme Court to reinstate new Postal Service rules for mail voting in the upcoming midterms.
The SAVE database was created by several federal agencies in response to an executive order signed by Mr. Trump last year that sought to impose a new proof-of-citizenship requirement for those registering to vote. The order directed the Department of Homeland Security and the Social Security Administration to create a database that would effectively allow state and local officials to verify citizenship or immigration status of individuals trying to register to vote.
The executive order drew several legal challenges, and key provisions have been blocked.
Still, the directive triggered the overhaul of the existing SAVE system. It was modified to include the records of natural-born citizens; to access records from the SSA, including Social Security numbers; and to permit bulk searches of records by entities that use the database.
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