The database, however, has repeatedly falsely identified eligible voters as noncitizens. It particularly falsely flagged naturalized citizens as ineligible to vote.

A federal judge in Washington, D.C., last month barred the DHS from continuing to use the database to surveil and force removals from state voter rolls.

U.S. District Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, who was appointed by former President Joe Biden, found that the Trump administration violated several federal laws in refashioning SAVE into a centralized master citizenship database by pooling the private information of millions of Americans — including Social Security records — held by agencies across the federal government into DHS.

Mullin attacked Sooknanan over her ruling, calling her an “activist” judge opposed to secure elections. He also appeared to conflate the SAVE America Act — a massive anti-voting bill pushed by Trump — with the similarly named database.

“Currently, we’re getting pushback from activist judges that are saying that, hold on, the SAVE Act, or the SAVE program — they are trying to put a hold or a stop to,” Mullin said. “Currently, because of the SAVE program, we have a pending appeal because activist judges are saying, what? They don’t want to secure our elections?”

In her order, Sooknanan warned that the Trump administration “haphazardly” threatened “the sacred right to vote” by adopting the expanded SAVE system knowing that it would falsely flag eligible voters as potential noncitizens.

After falsely alleging that foreign governments can hack voting machines and voter registration systems, Mullin announced that DHS, with the Department of Commerce, would soon make new “security enhancements” on voting machines “mandatory” by conditioning state grants on their adoption.