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Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan, who was appointed by President Joseph R. Biden Jr., found that in “scrambling to comply with an executive order aimed at reshaping federal elections,” federal agencies “haphazardly combined and repurposed the private information of millions of Americans, including citizenship data that they knew to be unreliable.”
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Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan, appointed by President Joseph R. Biden Jr., found that federal agencies, in complying with an executive order aimed at reshaping federal elections, haphazardly combined and repurposed the private information of millions of Americans, including unreliable citizenship data.
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Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan
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{
    "person": "Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan",
    "policy": "Executive order",
    "data_type": "private information",
    "data_reliability": "unreliable citizenship data",
    "person_appointed_by": "President Joseph R. Biden Jr."
}
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Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan Federal agencies Executive order Data privacy
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Created
September 25, 2026 at 5:01 PM (2 weeks ago)
Last Updated
September 25, 2026 at 5:01 PM (2 weeks ago)

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Supreme Court Allows Expansive Voter Screening Tool Ahead of Midterms
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https://nytimes.com/2026/09/25/us/politics/supreme-court-citizenship-voter-lists.html

The Supreme Court has ruled that the Trump administration can use an expansive online system combining citizenship and Social Security data to identify ineligible voters. Critics fear this could lead to the purging of valid voters, especially recently naturalized citizens, from state rolls ahead of the midterm elections.

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