Trump Officials Ask High Court to Allow Immigration Database for Voter Scrutiny

Emergency appeal turns up heat on Supreme Court, which is also considering the administration’s bid to change the rules for mail-in ballotsThe Trump administration filed an emergency appeal Tuesday that seeks the Supreme Court’s blessing to deploy a federal immigration database that it says could be used to root out people improperly registered to vote.The effort stems from an executive order President Trump issued last year that directed the Department of Homeland Security to share information with state officials about voter eligibility and to compare states’ voter rolls with federal data. The administration has built a verification system over the...