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        No. 26A308 · October Term 2025

        Department of Homeland Security v. League of Women Voters

        Decided September 25, 2026, 6–3 · From the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit

        Holding

        The Court grants the Government’s application to stay the District Court’s order—which set aside and vacated the Government’s modified Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) program and its related notices—pending the disposition of appeal to the United States Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia and disposition of a petition for a writ of certiorari, if such a writ is timely sought.

        The Court's vote 6–3

        Majority: John G. Roberts, Clarence Thomas, Samuel A. Alito, Neil M. Gorsuch, Brett M. Kavanaugh, Amy Coney Barrett

        Dissent: Ketanji Brown Jackson, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan