The Supreme Court on Friday allowed the Trump administration to share an expanded federal citizenship database with states ahead of the midterm elections, while limiting how the information can be used before voting takes place. In an apparent 6-3 emergency ruling, the justices paused lower-court orders that had restricted access to the system, known as SAVE. Because the decision came close to the election, states may use the records only to check individual cases—not to conduct large-scale comparisons against voter rolls. The dispute centers on the administration’s addition of Social Security records to SAVE, which also contains information collected by the Department of Homeland Security. Civic groups that challenged the expanded data-sharing say the system is incomplete and contains errors that could lead U.S. citizens to be wrongly flagged as potentially ineligible voters. They also argue the data transfer violates federal privacy protections. The court’s unsigned order said Congress likely authorized the data-sharing and intended to override restrictions in other federal laws. The decision is not a final ruling on the case, but signals that a majority of the justices may ultimately side with the administration. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, joined by Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan. Jackson criticized the majority for weighing the government’s claimed harms while giving insufficient consideration to the risk to eligible voters. She called the majority’s interpretation of the laws implausible and said it weakened protections for Social Security records. The dissent echoed a June ruling by U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, who found the expanded data-sharing unlawful. A federal appeals court later declined to lift her restrictions on the database. The Supreme Court’s narrow, late-stage decision limits the system’s immediate reach: states cannot use it for the broad voter-list matching some have sought. Still, individual checks could affect voters whose records are reviewed, making accuracy and safeguards central concerns as election officials prepare for the midterms.