By Admin 
A US federal judge canceled the Trump government’s database, which contained secret information about American citizens. The judge called it illegal, because many states had used it to remove eligible citizens from voter lists. According to news agency Xinhua, US federal court judge Sparkle Sooknanen wrote in a decision, “The federal government has knowingly violated the privacy rights of American citizens in a way that threatens an important right like voting. This court cannot stand idly by when this happens.”
Sooknan said federal agencies were in a hurry to comply with an executive order that would change the federal election system. Sooknan randomly collected and reused the personal information of millions of Americans, including citizenship data that he knew was unreliable. Sooknan further said, ‘Since then, states have partnered with the federal government to access the database and are removing US citizens from voter rolls based on inaccurate information.’ According to the U.S. District Judge, “This case illustrates two fundamental rights that protect Americans from government interference: the right to privacy and the right to vote.”
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League of Women Voters
The latest decision came in response to a lawsuit filed in September by a coalition of voting rights and privacy organizations. This alliance was led by the ‘League of Women Voters’. The petition challenged the changes made in the ‘Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements’ (SAVE) system. This system is operated by the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and is used to verify citizenship and immigration status.
Changes in voting rules
In March 2025, President Trump signed a major executive order making major changes to US elections, requiring documentary proof of citizenship to register to vote in federal elections. He claimed that America had not properly implemented the requirements of federal elections. Executive Order 14248 directed certain federal agencies, including DHS and the Social Security Administration, to create systems for state and local officials to verify the citizenship or immigration status of registered voters or people registering to vote.
Court attack on database
In a statement on Monday (June 22), the League of Women Voters said that ‘the Trump-Vance administration’s efforts to unlawfully interfere in the elections failed today as a federal judge ordered the government to dismantle and declassify a massive government database.’ “This database aggregates sensitive and legally protected personal information about millions of Americans, leaving them vulnerable to baseless scrutiny and unlawful removal from voter rolls,” the statement said.
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