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Judge Sparkle Sooknanan Blocks Trump Admin’s Voter-Screening Database
American Greatness ^ | 23 Jun, 2026 | AG News Staff

Posted on 06/23/2026 6:43:29 AM PDT by MtnClimber

A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from implementing a voter-screening database that combined citizenship records with Social Security information. The ruling argued the effort violated federal privacy protections and resulted in inaccurate information being shared with states.

In a 75-page decision, U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan halted the administration’s revised SAVE database, a system developed by the Department of Homeland Security as part of an effort to strengthen election integrity and identify non-citizens on voter rolls.

“The federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote,” Sooknanan wrote. “This Court cannot stand idly by while that happens.”

The lawsuit was brought by the progressive League of Women Voters and other left-wing advocacy organizations, which argued that the administration unlawfully consolidated sensitive personal information and distributed inaccurate data to states.

According to the ruling, the updated SAVE system combined citizenship records with information from the Social Security Administration, creating a database that Sooknanan concluded Congress had not authorized.

The judge said states were granted access to the system despite concerns about the reliability of the information it contained.

“Since then, states have run their voter rolls through the modified SAVE system, and some of the Plaintiffs’ members have been wrongfully identified as non-citizens by SAVE, resulting in the cancellation of their voter registrations,” Sooknanan wrote.

The ruling immediately stops implementation of the revised system, which had become a central component of the administration’s election-security and immigration enforcement agenda.

Sooknanan concluded that the program violated protections contained in both the Social Security Act and the Privacy Act. The judge also criticized the administration’s handling of inaccurate records, writing that efforts to minimize the consequences of erroneous citizenship designations “border on the absurd.”

The decision is expected to be appealed to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit.


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: ballotfraud; demagogicparty; democratcorruption; electionfraud; judicialoverreach; leftism; sparklesooknanan; unfitforthebench

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To: MtnClimber

By her reasoning the IRS shouldn’t have access to your SSN.


21 posted on 06/23/2026 7:22:43 AM PDT by yuleeyahoo (“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain!” - the deep-state)
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To: neverbluffer
Time to start using their own playbook against them.

I have a better idea: True deterrence. Congress needs to pass a statute defining failure to sustain "good behavior" as three overturns by an appellate court, at which point they would lose their job permanently unless reconfirmed by the Senate. Any judge writing such bogus opinions meant only as administrative obstruction would soon be gone. Opinions like this are effective because this case needs to be overturned before the next election.

22 posted on 06/23/2026 7:28:48 AM PDT by Carry_Okie (The tree of liberty needs a rope.)
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To: MtnClimber

India has been sending millions of their Dalits to the USA. These democrat “Untouchables” are now taking positions of power all over America.


23 posted on 06/23/2026 7:28:52 AM PDT by Flavious_Maximus (Tony Fauci will be put on death row and die of COVID!)
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To: MtnClimber

She also lied to the Senate in her confirmation hearing.

“Sooknanan served as lead counsel on behalf of Puerto Rican bondholders or vulture funds. Sooknanan told Hawley that she had not been lead counsel, although legal records and Jones Day confirmed that she had been lead.

No White, even a woman, would be hired by a firm like Jones Day with her weak College background - much less become partner at 37.”

Biden appointee, barely confirmed Dec 2024.

SHE has determined that Americans do not get to have secure elections.


24 posted on 06/23/2026 7:29:37 AM PDT by Bon of Babble (You Say You Want a Revolution?)
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To: MtnClimber
From 2014 to 2021, Sooknanan worked in private practice at Jones Day, becoming a partner at the firm in 2020. Sooknanan resigned from Jones Day in January 2021. Before her resignation, The New York Times reported that she denounced the firm's work in Pennsylvania on behalf of the Trump administration, saying that one lawsuit "was brought for no other reason than to deprive poor people of the right to vote."[7] In her 2024 confirmation hearing before the U.S. Senate, Sooknanan denied saying this, stating "Those were not my words. I do not know who provided that quote to the reporter."

Source--Wikipedia

Born in Trinidad and Tobago, she finally gets her revenge on Trump. How do these slugs become federal judges, just how? We are truly a sick country to permit this level of foreign infiltration.

25 posted on 06/23/2026 7:32:09 AM PDT by 4Runner ("I gotta join a union to get paid for loafin'?" " Sure ya do!" --Abbott & Costello)
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To: MtnClimber
A federal judge has blocked the Trump administration from implementing a voter-screening database that combined citizenship records with Social Security information.

Fair elections are about the last thing Democrats want.

26 posted on 06/23/2026 7:36:18 AM PDT by libertylover (The HBM (Has Been Media) is almost all AGENDA-DRIVEN and HATE-DRIVEN, not-truth driven)
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To: Antoninus
How did we get to a point in this country where we have judges named “Sparkle Sooknanan”.

The 14th amendment, followed by the 19th amendment, followed by the 24th amendment followed by the 26th amendment.

Some of these amendments were completely stupid, and some just contained essential core ingredients of stupid.

27 posted on 06/23/2026 7:40:20 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp ("of parents owing allegiance to no other sovereignty.")
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To: MtnClimber

nothing screams DEI or puppet like that photo. looks like a kindergartener on first day, dutifully sitting as instructed, finger folded hands on desk and smile.


28 posted on 06/23/2026 7:50:45 AM PDT by b4me (Pray, and let God change you. He knows better than you or anyone else, who He made you to be.)
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To: BenLurkin

nee Farkel, originally portrayed by Goldie Hawn.


29 posted on 06/23/2026 7:58:05 AM PDT by rightwingcrazy (;-,)
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To: Antoninus
How did we get to a point in this country where we have judges named “Sparkle Sooknanan”.

When someone said Barack Hussein Obama was an actual thing.

30 posted on 06/23/2026 8:01:05 AM PDT by johniegrad
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To: 4Runner

Appointed by Biden. It’s become clear he and Obama worked very hard to fill the judiciary with foreign born judges.


31 posted on 06/23/2026 8:29:28 AM PDT by j.havenfarm (25 years on Free Republic, 12/10/25! More than 12,750 replies and still not shutting up!)
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To: MtnClimber

Judge Sparkles was a clerk for Justice Sotomayer, so we know where she gets her judicial philosophy


32 posted on 06/23/2026 8:38:59 AM PDT by not in the club
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To: MtnClimber
Zero impeached Judges, ZERO MIDTERM VOTES!!

We're DONE waiting for justice.

Team Soros/Hillary have heard Trump's message loud and clear...CARRY ON, NOTHING WILL HAPPEN!!

The Kyle Rittenhouse types have also heard Trump's message...Justice is DEAD!

It is the same in the end. 133 days. Zero IMPEACHED JUDGES, ZERO MIDTERM VOTES!!

133 DAYS.

33 posted on 06/23/2026 8:57:02 AM PDT by SENTINEL (Kneel down to God. Stand up to tyrants. STICK TO YOUR GUNS !)
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To: MtnClimber

TSA pre-check has my SS number. Judge Sookie should injunction them if voter rolls are off limits.


34 posted on 06/23/2026 9:06:28 AM PDT by Migraine
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To: SENTINEL

Another Curry, I’m shocked


35 posted on 06/23/2026 9:07:01 AM PDT by pburgh01
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To: Migraine

The difference is that your TSA pre-check does not impede leftist voter fraud.


36 posted on 06/23/2026 9:09:57 AM PDT by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: MtnClimber

administration unlawfully consolidated sensitive personal information and distributed inaccurate data to states.>>>. sounds like they took my advice. When i talked to the guys at DOJ i told them to not request the combined info from the states but to put it together on their own. Also inaccuracy cannot be a disqualifying criteria. The PA SURE system has been well documented to not being maintained properly.


37 posted on 06/23/2026 9:37:04 AM PDT by kvanbrunt2
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To: MtnClimber

Even the s hole which exrcreted her requires proof of citizenship...

Per AI:
Eligibility Check: Individuals must confirm their eligibility based on age, citizenship, and residency.


38 posted on 06/23/2026 9:48:37 AM PDT by Organic Panic
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To: pburgh01
I'm a betrayed 2x Trump voter, and one of the original Freepers (This is my 2nd account after lost login).

You quisling rino types would be wise to quit excusing/defending STILL ZERO JUSTICE!!

39 posted on 06/23/2026 9:56:55 AM PDT by SENTINEL (Kneel down to God. Stand up to tyrants. STICK TO YOUR GUNS !)
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To: MtnClimber
Sparkle Sooknanan

More proof that:
The only good communist is a dead communist...
It is our duty as citizens to help, with prejudice, everyone be as good as possible...

If we are unwilling to do our duty, maybe we should not complain...

40 posted on 06/23/2026 10:38:57 AM PDT by SuperLuminal (Where is rabble-rising Sam Adams now that we need him? Is his name Trump, now?)
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