Biden-Appointed Activist Judge Sparkle Sooknanan Blocks Trump DOJ’s Nationwide Voter Roll Cleanup Effort — Even in States That Voluntarily Cooperated

The Gateway Pundit ^ | October 11, 2026 | Jim Hᴏft

[Red Badger]

A Biden-appointed federal judge has once again stepped in to shield dirty voter rolls from federal scrutiny, striking down the Justice Department’s nationwide effort to collect registration records and identify suspected non-U.S. citizens on the rolls.

U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, who was born in Trinidad and Tobago, ruled that the Department of Justice overstepped its bounds by demanding unredacted voter registration lists and cross-referencing them using federal databases.

According to the 78-page ruling, the DOJ began requesting complete, unredacted statewide voter registration lists (including names, dates of birth, addresses, and driver’s license or partial Social Security numbers) from 49 states and the District of Columbia starting in May 2025. At least 18 states fully cooperated.

The department then shared the data with DHS for runs through the expanded Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system and urged states to remove voters flagged as potentially ineligible.

The Justice Department maintained that its actions were authorized by federal laws governing voter registration and election administration.

Sooknanan rejected that argument.

Sooknanan concluded that the Justice Department’s policy violated the Privacy Act and the Paperwork Reduction Act, exceeded the agency’s statutory authority, and was arbitrary and capricious under the Administrative Procedure Act.

She wrote that the policy “flies in the face of duly enacted laws designed to protect Americans” and accused the DOJ of attempting to “decide who gets to vote.” She claimed the administration failed to adequately weigh the risk that flawed federal databases could wrongly flag eligible citizens.

This is not the first time Judge Sooknanan has ruled against the Trump administration’s voter citizenship verification efforts.

As The Gateway Pundit reported in June, Sooknanan previously blocked the administration’s expanded Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system.

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KEYWORDS: democratcorruption; dirtyuselections; electionrigging; foreignbornjudges; judgeblockstrump; judicialoverreach; sparkle; strippername; turdworldelections; uselectionsaredirty; votefraud

[No name given]

It’s time to reign these rogue judges in and removing them from the bench.

[Liz]

Braindeand Biden's foreign appointee Sparkle Sooknanan has stepped in to shield dirty voter rolls from federal scrutiny, striking down the DOJ's nationwide effort to collect registration records and identify suspected non-U.S. citizens on the rolls.

Sooknanan is yet another foreign judge----born in Trinidad and Tobago---two separate islands that make up the single country of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago..

The foreigner ruled on US elections----that the DOJ overstepped its bounds by demanding unredacted voter registration lists and cross-referencing them using federal databases.

[rktman]

Sparkle plenty doesn’t run the country. Sorry, NOT sorry!

[maddog55]

He serves DC with no jurisdiction anywhere else period.

[Impala64ssa]

Judge SPARKLE?!?

[Liz]

Weird.

[JBW1949]

“...A Biden-appointed federal judge...”

If a President can appoint a judge, why can’t a President fire a judge???

[JBW1949]

“...A Biden-appointed federal judge...”

If a President can appoint a judge, why can’t a President fire a judge???

[for-q-clinton]

And the scotus already okay’d it.

[RightOnTheBorder]

Even leftist Americans are generally loathe to jettison our laws and norms in favor of leftist desires. Judge Sparkle and her ilk have no such compunction which is why the rats installed all these foreigners.

[hanamizu]

If a President can appoint a judge, why can’t a President fire a judge???

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A President nominates Federal Judges, the Senate, originally the representatives of state governments, confirms them. Judges, once confirmed serve for life/good behavior, that is, until death or retirement. President has no say after they’re confirmed.

Sparkle was confirmed 50-48 in the very last days of the AutoPen administration.

[blueyon]

SCOTUS already ruled on this so I would ignore the judge is surely is in a lower position then the president or SCOTUS - https://www.scotusblog.com/2026/09/supreme-court-clears-way-for-trump-administration-to-use-modified-voter-verification-database/

[Empire_of_Liberty]

You could sic the DOJ on inside traders. Congress would be cleaned out by tomorrow. I don’t know how this Federal Judiciary would be financed, then.

There is also the requirement for States to implement a “Republican form of Government” - i.e. to be ruled by elected representatives. Defending non-elections does not sound like “good behavior”, to me.

[chopperk]

Seems the judge wants the dems to win the election. He must be investigated.

[Joann37]

Once again, how can this District judge put this in place for a federal election?

[hanamizu]

Defending non-elections does not sound like “good behavior”, to me.

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And the remedy is impeachment by the House and conviction by 2/3rds of the Senate. Alcee Hastings was drawing his salary while in prison for taking bribes as a Federal Judge. He was impeached and convicted pretty much to stop his drawing checks. And as a note to what we’re dealing with, after prison, he spent the rest of his life as an elected Congressman.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Only an old retarded, pedophile would make a bimbo named Sparkle from Trinidad and Toejambago a judgette in America. We must be about to run out of bottom of the ladder, female-looking “law school” grads.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Judgette, Sparkle “Steppenwolf” Sookieman. Nice work Jo Jo.

[Midwesterner53]

Once again Trump lets district court judges rule the nation. He gets what he deserves by being spineless on this issue for two years.