{"id":1517439,"date":"2026-06-22T13:27:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:27:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?guid=2db9e5c93af016e9f6a9a203ed947b9a"},"modified":"2026-06-22T13:43:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-22T18:43:52","slug":"judge-blocks-trump-administrations-haphazard-voter-screening-database","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=1517439","title":{"rendered":"Judge blocks Trump administration&#8217;s &#8216;haphazard&#8217; voter-screening database"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><img src=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/b441796d527d7b7aeefd2028cff41e63.jpg\" alt\/><\/figure><p>(WASHINGTON) -- A federal judge on Monday blocked a Trump administration voter-screening database, ruling that the government's \"haphazard\" system unlawfully consolidated \"the private information of millions of Americans\" in an effort to purge non-citizens from voter rolls.<\/p><p>In her order, U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan said the federal government \"has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote.\"<\/p><p><em>This is a developing story. Please check back for updates.<\/em><\/p><p>Copyright \u00a9 2026, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(WASHINGTON) &#8212; A federal judge on Monday blocked a Trump administration voter-screening database, ruling that the government&#8217;s &#8220;haphazard&#8221; system unlawfully consolidated &#8220;the private information of millions of Americans&#8221; in an effort to purge non-citi&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":375,"featured_media":1517445,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/b441796d527d7b7aeefd2028cff41e63.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1502,1447],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1517439","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-abc-heads","category-abc-national-news"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-06-24 16:01:50","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2026\/06\/b441796d527d7b7aeefd2028cff41e63.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517439","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/375"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1517439"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517439\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1517451,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1517439\/revisions\/1517451"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1517445"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1517439"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1517439"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1517439"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}