The League of Women Voters and the Electronic Privacy Information Center sued over the creation of the SAVE system.
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The Lawfare PodcastSep 14, 2026
Multiple sources confirm that the League of Women Voters and EPIC sued the Trump administration over the overhauled SAVE system, including a federal court opinion captioned League of Women Voters v. DHS and a Supreme Court per curiam order in DHS v. League of Women Voters.
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… So, in March 2025, Trump issues an executive order for the Social Security Administration to make databases available to DHS so that they can begin to help state and local authorities get these additional features with SAVE, and, in fact, a modified SAVE is created. And then the League of Women Voters and EPIC, which is the Electronic Privacy Information Center, both sue. One of the problems that voters have is that if you get a Social Security number when you are a non-citizen and some non-citizens do get Social Security numbers; they're entitled to and then later become naturalized, the Social Security Administration …
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Supports. The Supreme Court's per curiam order is captioned Department of Homeland Security v. League of Women Voters, and it describes DHS launching a modified SAVE program in 2025 that the plaintiffs challenged.[4]
Supports. A June 2026 federal district court opinion in League of Women Voters v. Department of Homeland Security says the League of Women Voters and EPIC sued DHS and SSA over the 2025 SAVE overhaul, and the court set that overhaul aside.[3][5]
Supports. AP reports that the League of Women Voters, EPIC and LULAC brought a lawsuit in federal court in Washington, D.C., challenging DHS's collection and combination of voter data, which is part of the SAVE overhaul effort.[1]
Supports. Snopes reports that the League of Women Voters and EPIC sued over privacy concerns after Trump's March 2025 executive order that led to the modified SAVE system.[2]
Context. The claim's scope matches the post, which said SAVE was created and then the two groups sued; the post's own description and the sources both tie the suit to the modified SAVE overhaul. The sources do not give an exact filing date for the first suit, which is a peripheral detail.
Sources
5 sources: 2 fact-checkers, 1 tier 2, 2 not rated
- 1Lawsuit challenges DHS effort to collect voter dataapnews.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 2Noncitizens don't vote in large numbers in US elections. Here's proofsnopes.com · fact-checker · cited for: supports
- 3Judge blocks Trump administration's overhauled database ...cbsnews.com · tier 2 · cited for: supports
- 426A308 Department of Homeland Security v. League of Women ...supreme.justia.com · not rated · cited for: supports
- 5LEAGUE OF WOMEN VOTERS v. DEPARTMENT OF ...caselaw.findlaw.com · not rated · cited for: supports
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