League of Women Voters
Non-partisan US civic organisation, founded 1920, named Challenger in the SAVE citizenship-check case.
The League of Women Voters lost its hold on the SAVE citizenship database on 25 September 2026, when the Supreme Court sided 6-3 with Homeland Security in the case that bears the League's name.
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The League of Women Voters was founded in Chicago in February 1920 by the suffrage leader Carrie Chapman Catt, months before the 19th Amendment gave women the vote, to HELP newly enfranchised women take part in politics. It is non-partisan and works on voter education, registration and ballot access, with state leagues that act on their own.
That ballot-access mission now runs largely through the courts. In 2026 the League led the challenge to the federal government's expanded citizenship-check database, arguing that bulk matching of voter rolls risks removing eligible citizens; it lost at the Supreme Court on 25 September. Its Florida affiliate's line of work on redistricting surfaced in a Fair Districts challenge heard in May.
The League won twice then lost
As named Challenger in Department of Homeland Security v. League of Women Voters, the League won the first two rounds. Judge Sparkle Sooknanan set the modified SAVE System aside on 22 June, and the D.C. Circuit declined to bring it back on 4 September.
the Supreme Court's 6-3 order on 25 September undid those wins and restored bulk searches of the database for election offices. The League kept one practical protection for this year: federal law bars systematic roll cleaning in the 90 days before an election, a window that opened on 5 August, so checks before 3 November must go voter by voter. The justices take up that limit on 8 December.
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