Judge Sparkle (not a typo) Sooknanan Pulls Plug on Election Verification System
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🗓️ 24 June 2026
⏱️ 20 minutes
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Summary
1. Court Ruling
- Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan ruled against the use of the SAVE database.
- The ruling cited:
- Privacy concerns
- Protection of voting rights
- It argued that aggregating personal data across agencies (e.g., Social Security Administration, DHS) could violate legal protections.
2. SAVE System
- A federal database used to verify immigration or citizenship status.
- The commentary claims:
- It was meant to prevent non-citizens from voting.
- The judge blocked its expanded use because it allowed bulk data matching across agencies.
- The judge is an activist judge
- The ruling is:
- Promoting “lawlessness”
- Enabling voter fraud
- Democrats and “the left” are:
- Supporting weakened election safeguards
- Opposing voter ID laws
4. SAVE Act Discussion
- A proposed law requiring government-issued ID and proof of citizenship to vote.
- It has broad public support (75–80%)
- It is being blocked or slowed in the Senate
- Republican figures like Mike Lee and Rick Scott, and President Donald Trump are big supporters.
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| 0:20.3 | And they're trying to say that's a... |
| 0:21.6 | So for eight years, ten years, they said, Trump is a Nazi. |
| 0:26.7 | Now they can't say that anymore because they have a guy with a tattoo on his chest. |
| 0:32.3 | Unbelievable. |
| 0:33.2 | You're listening to the 47 morning update with Ben Ferguson. |
| 0:37.1 | Good Wednesday morning. Nice to have you with us on the 47 morning update with Ben Ferguson. Good Wednesday morning. Nice to have you |
| 0:38.5 | with us on the 47 morning update and we've got a very big story for you. A radical activist judge |
| 0:44.7 | has now blocked the use of a federal database to check citizenship, meaning that illegal immigrants |
| 0:50.4 | and others who shouldn't be voting in our elections are now being protected. |
| 0:55.6 | So what happens next? And the second part of this story is Senator Cruz joins us to talk about this |
| 1:01.6 | judge and how it could work its way through the court system. But will it have an impact on the |
| 1:06.5 | midterm elections or could they stall until the presidential elections in 2028? |
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