A federal judge ruled the Trump administration unlawfully overhauled the SAVE system into a broad citizenship-checking database using Americans’ personal information. The ruling blocks use of the expanded tool, which some states used to flag voters as potential noncitizens.
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A federal judge has ruled that former President Donald Trump and FBI Director Christopher Wray can be deposed in a lawsuit brought by former FBI agent Peter Strzok. The ruling ends a yearlong dispute over whether Strzok could question Trump and Wray under oath, with the depositions limited to two hours and a “narrow set of topics”. The Biden White House must decide by late March whether the current president will assert executive privilege over conversations that Trump had directly.