Posted on 07/07/2026 7:34:34 PM PDT by Red Badger
Afederal judge in Florida on Tuesday ordered the Department of Homeland Security to restore some of the key features of its Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements system, which states use to verify citizenship and immigration status for voter rolls.
The ruling overturns a D.C. judge's ruling, who determined that the SAVE system's features, including a feature that allowed workers to verify citizenship status through a resident's social security number, violated the Social Security Act and Privacy Act by improperly aggregating and using Americans’ personal data.
The SAVE system was enhanced under the Trump administration to better support state election integrity efforts, including maintenance of state voter rolls.
U.S. District Judge T. Kent Wetherell II ruled that the DHS violated a settlement with states, including Florida, by disabling the features. Wetherell approved the settlement last year and has maintained jurisdiction to enforce the settlement.
"Defendants are plainly in violation of the settlement agreement because it is undisputed that they disabled the bulk-upload and SSN-search features that the agreement expressly required the SAVE system to have," he wrote in the order. "The fact that defendants disabled those features to comply with [the judge's] order does not change the fact that they violated the agreement."
Wetherell determined that the features did not violate federal law, concluding the SSN-search functions align with 8 U.S.C. §1373, which overrides other restrictions on sharing citizenship or immigration status information, according to Florida's Voice News.
The judge ordered defendants to file a status report on its compliance with the latest order by July 14.
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Waiting on some traffic court judge in MA or CA to over rule this.
How does one US District Judge overrule another US Distrct Judge?
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The article doesn’t mention the name of the D.C. judge.
He didn’t. Different cases and one trial court’s decision is not precedent to the other. This isn’t a desirable thing to have happen, but it isnt contrary to law
When you have differences between rulings of different districts the Supreme Court gets involved............
I’m not an attorney, but it seems like this is something that should be happening more often. Liberal judges are overstepping their authority by issuing nationwide injunctions, even though they don’t have jurisdiction over other judicial districts. I’m not sure what the legal problem is beyond review by the courts of appeals and, potentially, the Supreme Court. Still, I’d like to see more conservative judges rule that this kind of judicial overreach doesn’t apply within their own districts.
“The ruling overturns a D.C. judge’s ruling, who determined that the SAVE system’s features, including a feature that allowed workers to verify citizenship status through a resident’s social security number, violated the Social Security Act and Privacy Act by improperly aggregating and using Americans’ personal data.”
We have to remember that many federal stooges are old fossils or young foreign bimbos [”Sparkle”] who don’t know ANYTHING about modern computer systems, and make retarded “decisions” based on their lack of knowledge.
The retard in DC has “people” to do her computer stuff for her, when she’s not pole-dancing for Ice Cream Joe Biden for extra cash.
“In June, U.S. District Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan in the District of Columbia vacated the SAVE modifications, finding they violated the Social Security Act and Privacy Act by improperly aggregating and using Americans’ personal data, including Social Security numbers. DHS complied by disabling the features, prompting the emergency motion from the states.”
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It was the Biden DEI nitwit. Her first name is Sparkle. I can’t remember the last name.
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When the one "judge's" stripper name is "Sparkle"...
See my last post.
The author didn’t want to start laughing when trying to write the article - and “judge” Sparkle might have got mad.
She’s some foreign DEI bimbo appointed by Ice Cream Joe. The Republicans probably didn’t go to hard against her confirmation, for the laughs.
Which judge would you take more seriously at face value: “T. Kent Wetherell II,” or “Sparkle Sooknanan”?
I can tell you that I would be more inclined to shove a buck in Sparkle’s bikini bottom - and leave it there if she giggled...
Thanks.
What? A federal judge using common sense. Will wonders never cease.
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