Two Biden-appointed federal judges blocked Trump administration election integrity measures this week — on consecutive days, on separate legal grounds — and the Left immediately declared victory. It shouldn’t. The rulings identified real statutory and constitutional problems. They also handed Republicans the clearest possible argument for why the SAVE America Act needs to pass the Senate before the midterm elections.

Here’s what happened. The Department of Homeland Security, working with the Department of Government Efficiency, overhauled its Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements database — originally built to check public benefits eligibility — into a citizenship checker for voter rolls, integrated with Social Security Administration data. Judge Sparkle Sooknanan found the overhaul violated the Social Security Act’s prohibition on disclosing Social Security numbers across agency lines, the Privacy Act of 1974, and the Administrative Procedure Act. Congress wrote specific prohibitions against consolidating personal data across federal agencies without statutory authorization. The administration walked into those prohibitions without a statute.