June 22, 2026: She Vacated the SAVE Modifications.

DOCUMENTED

Official portrait of President Donald J. Trump, 2017

Donald J. Trump, official White House portrait, 6 October 2017. Shealah Craighead. U.S. government work.

League of Women Voters et al. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security et al., Civil Action No. 25-3501 (SLS). Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan. On June 22, 2026, she signed ECF 112.

The order grants the plaintiffs’ motion for summary judgment (ECF 66) and denies the federal defendants’ motion to dismiss or for summary judgment (ECF 77) and Texas’s motion to dismiss (ECF 97). It vacates and sets aside: (1) the October 2025 DHS Notice of a Modified System of Records for SAVE, 90 Fed. Reg. 48,948 (Oct. 31, 2025); (2) the November 2025 SSA Notice of a Modified System of Records for the Master Files of Social Security Number Holders and Social Security Number Applications, 90 Fed. Reg. 50,879 (Nov. 12, 2025); and (3) the SAVE “modified system” described in the October 2025 DHS notice. The clerk was directed to terminate the case from the active docket. Those are the words of the order. Read the PDF.

The memorandum opinion is ECF 111. Reporting and later stay papers quote her line that the federal government had “knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote.” H.Res. 1421 later names an “injunction that halted President Trump’s SAVE program.” The docket instrument on June 22 is a vacatur and set-aside of the modified system and the two SORNs. It is not a Supreme Court holding and not a House vote.

SAVE, spelled out: Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements, a DHS system of records used to verify citizenship and immigration status. The 2025 modification, as described in the later stay opinion, added bulk-search and Social Security master-file features after Executive Order 14,248. The June 22 order put those modifications off the board. Appeal followed. That is the episode H.Res. 1421 recites.

Sources

Order, League of Women Voters v. DHS, No. 1:25-cv-03501-SLS (D.D.C. June 22, 2026) (ECF 112). CourtListener (PDF)

Civil Rights Litigation Clearinghouse. Same case (summary judgment June 22, 2026; stay denied July 8, 2026). clearinghouse.net

H.Res. 1421, 119th Cong. (introduced July 9, 2026) (Article I names the SAVE-program injunction). congress.gov (text)

Daily Wire (reporting). “Biden Judge Blocks A Common-Sense Voting Safeguard.” dailywire.com

The Federalist (reporting / commentary). “Foreign-Born Judge Blocks Voter Citizenship Test.” June 23, 2026. thefederalist.com

Opinion

The following is commentary by this site. It is not a finding of fact and not a legal conclusion.

Compiler take

She took the modified SAVE system off the table. Citizenship checks for voter rolls — gone, by one district judge, on summary judgment. The House resolution calls that an injunction and hangs five articles on it. The PDF is a vacatur. Either way the program the President ordered is the one she stopped. Appeal is not optional if you want the database back. Introduction of articles is not a conviction. The order is still the order.