A US fed­er­al judge, who was born in Trinidad and To­ba­go, has come un­der fire by a US Con­gress­woman and an of­fi­cial from the De­part­ment of Home­land Se­cu­ri­ty, af­ter she blocked the Trump ad­min­is­tra­tion from cre­at­ing a cen­tralised data­base con­tain­ing So­cial Se­cu­ri­ty num­bers, in­for­ma­tion about vot­ers’ cit­i­zen­ship sta­tus, and oth­er sen­si­tive da­ta.

Ac­cord­ing to an ar­ti­cle in The Hill, Dis­trict Judge Sparkle Sook­nanan said of­fi­cials across nu­mer­ous gov­ern­ment agen­cies “hap­haz­ard­ly com­bined and re­pur­posed the pri­vate in­for­ma­tion of mil­lions of Amer­i­cans, in­clud­ing cit­i­zen­ship da­ta that they knew to be un­re­li­able” in or­der to com­ply with Pres­i­dent Trump’s March ex­ec­u­tive or­der at­tempt­ing to over­haul fed­er­al elec­tions.

The or­der re­quired the fed­er­al gov­ern­ment to es­tab­lish a list of el­i­gi­ble vot­ers based on avail­able cit­i­zen­ship da­ta and di­rect­ed the US Postal Ser­vice to de­liv­er mail-in bal­lots on­ly to in­di­vid­u­als on each state’s ap­proved vot­er roll.