Fox News host Laura Ingraham sat down for an interview with Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) where they discussed how left-wing activist Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, who issued a ruling against President Donald Trump and his administration’s SAFE system that checks voter rolls to ensure illegal aliens and others aren’t fraudulently casting ballots in elections, may not have renounced her Trinidad and Tobago citizenship.
It’s worth noting that Sooknanan was appointed to the bench by former President Joe Biden. Ingraham started off the segment by providing some context and background about the judge, providing a quote of her thoughts on the SAFE system from her ruling. “She said that the ‘federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote,'” Ingraham stated.
“‘This country cannot stand idly by while that happens,'” she concluded the quote. “Here to weigh in is Ohio Congressman Jim Jordan. Congressman, I mean, when Trump talked about the SAVE America Act, the crowd in Pennsylvania went crazy. Now we have these activist judges who are saying you have a constitutional right to be fraudulently on the voter rolls. What is this?”
Jordan then explained the system that Sooknanan is against, saying that the federal government is in possession of a list of individuals who are in the U.S. on some kind of visa and are not citizens. “States have lists of their residents who are on the voter registration rolls, so President Trump said with his executive order last year, match up the list and find out who’s on the voter registration rolls, who are participating in our elections, who should not be, because our law doesn’t allow foreigners to vote in our elections,” he said.
“That is how common sense his executive order was, simply let them match up lists now, a bunch of red states sent in their list, some blue states did to what they find, 1,000s of people were on the voter registration list in states that were not citizens, that’s what he’s trying to get at, and this judge says no, somehow that tramples on rights, no, your decision tramples on common sense, for goodness’ sake, and that is so much of what’s at stake here, common sense versus the crazy decisions of the left, and some of these judges,” he added.
Ingraham then asked Jordan how allowing individuals who aren’t citizens to vote doesn’t result in the disenfranchisement of Americans with the legal right to vote. During the host’s explanation of what it means to be disenfranchised as a voter, she brought up the fact that Sooknanan might not have renounced her Trinidad and Tobago citizenship.
“When you’re disenfranchised, your vote is canceled out if some fraud votes in our election. So, I don’t understand how she could be against that as a sitting U.S. District Court judge. By the way, Congressman, Sen. Lindsey Graham questioned her at her confirmation hearing about her Trinidad and Tobago citizenship at the time, and she assured him that she needed to renounce it in order to fulfill her duties,” Ingraham explained to Jordan.
"*" indicates required fields
“If confirmed as a judge, she said she would renounce her other citizenship, but it doesn’t appear that she has renounced her Trinidad citizenship,” she finished. Ingraham then told Jordan that her show reached out to Sooknanan to find out if she had renounced the citizenship, but did not hear back. Jordan responded by saying that topic was something worth exploring.
Featured Image: screenshot from embedded video