On Tuesday, U.S. Sen. Tommy Tuberville (R-Auburn) shared his reaction to a federal judge's ruling that a Trump administration effort to create a national database linking Social Security numbers with citizenship status violated privacy laws and has led states to wrongly purge voters.
Judge Sparkle Sooknanan of Trinidad and Tobago, a Biden appointee, wrote in her ruling about the SAVE system, "All in all, the federal government has knowingly trampled on the privacy rights of American citizens in a manner that threatens the sacred right to vote."
In an interview with Benny Johnson on "The Benny Show," Tuberville questioned why the President of the United States must be a natural-born citizen while federal judges, like Sooknanan, could be from a third-world country and have the power to block a President's efforts.
"It shows you how things have gotten turned around that the President of the United States has to be a natural-born citizen in this country, but they have to take orders from these people from third-world countries that are coming in and being elected to the judiciary — it makes no sense whatsoever," Tuberville outlined when asked about a constitutional amendment mandating that judges be natural-born citizens. "Again, we've lost our mind. We've got so many people now in this country that are not Americans that get to make those decisions, unfortunately, because they ... are voting, and it's putting us in harm's way."
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