July 10, 2026
Sparkles Returns
Timothy Birdnow
More judicial insanity.
Yes, judge Sparkles has braided her hair and said "omigoood" and demanded that DHS disobey the court that overruled her.
FTA:
A federal judge on July 8 said the Trump administration must not comply with an order from another federal judge and must continue to have key functions of an immigration database disabled.
Judge Sparkle Sooknanan of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia said that officials with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and other agencies shall keep disabled the ability to look up Social Security numbers and carry out mass uploads in the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements (SAVE) system.
Sooknanan ordered the Trump administration in June to disable the features, finding that recent updates to the database violated privacy laws by disclosing Americans’ Social Security numbers and other sensitive information.
But this door knob in black was overturned. A judge in Florida had approved the reinstating of the SAVE system in four states. But she was having none of that.
The article continues:
Sooknanan said on July 8 that arguments from the government in favor of pausing her previous order were unpersuasive, including the argument that highlighted a July 7 ruling from Judge T. Kent Wetherell II of the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Florida that ordered DHS to enable the functions for four states under a 2025 settlement that he had approved.Wetherell had noted that he could have waited until the case in Washington proceeded, but that the four states had presented "unrebutted evidence showing that they are suffering real and concrete harm every day that passes without the disabled features of the SAVE system.”
He said that Sooknanan could have deferred to his previous determination that the functions were lawful, which was reached, he said, in part because the Social Security Act does not preclude disclosing Social Security numbers for immigration enforcement.
So now DHS has two contradictory orders. I would tell Sparkles to go polish her nails and listen to the adult in the room. She needs to get a neck brace to prevent from injuring her spine from shaking her head back and forth.
Sparkles said that if, in the end, the ruling applied to the four states under Weatherall's ruling the other 46 are still bound by her decision.
Uh, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled that district judges may not issue blanket ruling over the whole country. This judge just flipped her middle finger at the Supreme Court. DHS should tell her to put it where the sun don't shine and the moon don't wax - at least outside of her jurisdiction. Sooknanan is the judge for the District Court of D.C.; she has zero authority to impose this ban on the Administration.
BTW Spakles Sooknanan Sounds like a name given by a tween girl to her My Little Pony.
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Absolutely amazing! Judges are now squaring off against each other. Maybe we should just sit on the sidelines and watch 'em duke it out until they have knocked each other silly. And I really think "silly" is the operative word here.
I'm hoping for an article on this brouhaha by somebody like Jonathan Turley, whom I regard as one of the best and most cogent writers on the judicial scene who's active today.
I'm hoping for an article on this brouhaha by somebody like Jonathan Turley, whom I regard as one of the best and most cogent writers on the judicial scene who's active today.
Posted by: Dana Mathewson at July 11, 2026 12:49 AM (gVePp)
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Me too Dana. I'd like Turley's take.
What is happening now is the leftists on the judiciary are no longer even pretending to follow the law. This judge knows full well that social security numbers are given out all the time and are pretty much public record and the government certainly has and uses them. She's just trying to run interference for the Democrats to hide cheating. No other reason.
The Left is hoping to get the Trump Administration to simply disregard the orders of such judges then they will use that as articles of impeachment against him. But at some point out of control judges have to be ignored - as Alexander Hamilton implied they would be if they overstepped their authority in the Federalist Papers.
What is happening now is the leftists on the judiciary are no longer even pretending to follow the law. This judge knows full well that social security numbers are given out all the time and are pretty much public record and the government certainly has and uses them. She's just trying to run interference for the Democrats to hide cheating. No other reason.
The Left is hoping to get the Trump Administration to simply disregard the orders of such judges then they will use that as articles of impeachment against him. But at some point out of control judges have to be ignored - as Alexander Hamilton implied they would be if they overstepped their authority in the Federalist Papers.
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