Rep. Jamie Raskin sharply condemned the Supreme Court after its Republican appointed majority approved the Trump administration’s controversial changes to a federal database used to review state voter rolls for potential noncitizens.

Speaking with MS NOW’s Alicia Menendez, the Maryland Democrat called the decision a “threat to voting rights.” He also described overwhelming voter turnout as the only “antidote” to what he views as an administration effort to meddle in elections.

The Friday ruling followed a separate Supreme Court decision earlier this month concerning President Donald Trump’s restrictions on voting by mail. In that case, three conservative justices joined the liberal justices to reject the restrictions.

Raskin argued that the two rulings show a court unwilling to stand against Trump twice in succession. He said the majority was “not willing to do the right thing twice in a row.”

“President Trump exploded at them when they shut down his post office scheme to take over the elections and berated them and worked the refs,” Raskin said. “And now they came back with this decision.”

Raskin, a former constitutional law professor, said the ruling clears the way for the “creation of a massive federal government database.” According to Raskin, the administration has sought to create that database since Trump returned to the White House.

His criticism also focused on Congress and the stalled SAVE Act, which the source described as Trump’s massive voting overhaul legislation. The measure is currently stalled in the Senate.

“The Congress rejected this whole idea in the SAVE Act,” Raskin said. He pointed to that rejection while arguing that the federal government is now being allowed to pursue an approach that lawmakers did not approve.

“Congress has not wanted to have anything to do with this, and yet they’ve now allowed the federal government to set it up,” he said.

Raskin also offered practical advice to voters worried about possible challenges or problems involving their ballots. He urged people across the country to cast their votes early rather than wait.

Specifically, Raskin advised voters to “go ahead and vote early” so that any alleged issue can be addressed before election day. His recommendation focused on providing time to resolve a potential dispute instead of discovering it too late.

He said early voting would mean that “if anybody asserts that there’s some kind of problem, it can be worked out early.” The advice came alongside his broader warning about the effects of the court’s decision.

Raskin addressed people who are “furious” about the ruling and Trump’s “intervention in the electoral process.” His political answer was not merely to protest the decision, but to produce an overwhelming Democratic victory at the ballot box.

He told Menendez that “the thing to do is to build a landslide” victory for Democrats. Raskin framed the objective in blunt terms, saying the result should be “so it’s too big to rig, too real to steal.”

“They’re not going to be able to get around the massive force of huge majorities coming out all across the country,” Raskin said. His argument centered on turnout powerful enough to withstand efforts to contest or disrupt the outcome.

“That is really the antidote to this 11th-hour effort to derail the election,” he said. For Raskin, early voting and huge Democratic majorities are the direct response to a court ruling he considers dangerous for voting rights.