Trinidad-born United States (US) District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, on Monday, reportedly blocked the Trump administration’s revamped SAVE database to check the accuracy of state voter rolls, over privacy and voting-rights violations.

According to a report by NBC News, Sooknanan, in a 75-page decision, wrote that: “The federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote.”

“This Court cannot stand idly by while that happens,” she continued.

The US Department of Homeland Security reportedly revamped a system it uses to verify individuals’ citizenship and immigration status last year to make it easier for state and local officials to use it to make sure voters were US citizens.

NBC further reported that Sooknanan ruled that the revamped SAVE database also violated privacy laws restricting the federal government’s disclosure of Social Security numbers and other information.