If it Ain’t One Law, it’s Another

The Trump Administration’s latest Supreme Court victory is a tribute to its persistence and innovation. It is, as well, a measure of the great changes in governance for which we owe Elon Musk and DOGE thanks.

Clarice Feldman | September 27, 2026

The Trump Administration’s latest Supreme Court victory is a tribute to its persistence and innovation. It is, as well, a measure of the great changes in governance for which we owe thanks to Elon Musk and DOGE.

Stymied by the congressional refusal to enact the SAVE Act, which would put teeth in the constitutional proscription against non-citizen voting in federal elections, the Administration kept searching for other ways to ensure that non-citizens did not vote in federal elections. Under a 1996 law, Section 1373(c), the federal government must provide state and local officials, upon request, verification of the citizenship of voters. The system in use before this Administration stepped in was an archaic, unworkable clunker which made a joke of the legal requirement. This relic, the Systematic Verification Act for Entitlements (SAVE, not to be confused with the proposed SAVE Act), had been in the law books since 1986. That little-utilized forty-year-old law allowed federal, state, and local governments to verify the citizenship and immigration status of noncitizens who applied for public benefits. That no one apparently used it to verify voter eligibility (or even benefit eligibility) is no surprise. This Administration........

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