The Newest DC Judge Is A Total Hack Skilled In Abusing Power

New federal documents released Monday shed more light on the wildly partisan history of power abuses by the troubled D.C. District Court’s newest judge, Sparkle Sooknanan.

An approximately 900-page Department of Justice report released Monday details systematic abuses of power and constitutional violations by Biden administration efforts to prosecute Americans for pro-life speech. Public records inside the report show the amazingly named Sooknanan was deeply involved in these systemic abuses of law and power. And she was rewarded with judicial robes for helping violate the law and Constitution.

During the Biden administration, Sooknanan was first a DOJ deputy associate attorney general, and then principal deputy assistant attorney general in the DOJ’s notoriously corrupt, anti-American Civil Rights Division. While a federal prosecutor, documents show, Sooknanan used her taxpayer-funded government position to collude with privately funded leftist activists to suppress Americans’ constitutional rights to free speech, freedom of association, and free assembly.

The Monday DOJ report discloses several emails from Sooknanan, showing her participation in Biden administration efforts to use an unconstitutional law called the FACE Act to prosecute prolifers for protected public speech.

An email dated May 12, 2023 shows Sooknanan discussing DOJ colleague Sanjay Patel’s appearance at a National Abortion Federation conference to show abortion businesses how to sic federal prosecutors on American citizens who speak against mass unborn murder. Sooknanan asked for a copy of Patel’s presentation that advertised federal assistance prosecuting Americans for prolife speech.

Sooknanan included a link to an Axios article claiming repealing Roe v. Wade increased violence against abortuaries. In fact, violence against prolife women’s health centers also increased at the time, including firebombings and arson against dozens of health charities dedicated to helping poor women sustain at-risk pregnancies.

Unlike colleagues who took lifeboats out of the Biden administration in its waning days like Sooknanan, Patel was fired by the Trump administration for using federal prosecutor powers to imprison numerous Americans for prolife speech in collusion with businesses that profit from child death and dismemberment. As The Federalist reported Tuesday, “According to the [DOJ] report, Patel relied on information from pro-abortion groups like the National Abortion Federation (NAF) for the hit list of pro-lifers to attack.”

In a September 27, 2022 email, Sooknanan sends “many thanks” to “the team” in response to a discussion about the Biden administration’s prosecution of Pennsylvanian Mark Houck. In that prosecution, the Biden DOJ sent a SWAT team to raid the home of a prolife father with seven children, waking them up with battering rams and rifles drawn as officers in riot gear surrounded their home.

Houck’s offense was not allowing an abortion activist to attack his son while Houck and his son held prolife signs in public. Houck’s lawyers had told the DOJ he would turn himself in, but the DOJ chose instead to send a SWAT team to violently seize him in front of his wife and children. Directly afterward, Houck’s wife suffered three miscarriages, and their children suffered constant anxiety attacks. Houck was acquitted by a Pennsylvania jury in 2023, and his family awarded $1 million in a settlement this year due to the abusive prosecution.

Sooknanan must have been closely following the Houck trial, because she was one recipient of a January 30, 2023 announcement from a colleague that a jury had pronounced Houck not guilty on all counts.

A May 24, 2024 email shows Sooknanan attempting to avoid working on one of the 11 paid holiday weekends per year bestowed on federal workers after supervisors asked her to collect stats on the Biden administration’s prosecution of Americans’ speech for congressional testimony.

In October 2025, America First Legal (AFL) released other emails from Sooknanan during her time as a federal prosecutor, which the organization obtained through public records requests. These emails show Sooknanan colluding with a leftist hate group called the Southern Poverty Law Center (SPLC) to coordinate federal prosecution of Americans who refuse to speak the lie that men can become women.

The emails show, AFL says, “the Biden Department of Justice…gave the left-wing extremist group [SPLC] unprecedented access and influence over federal civil rights enforcement, including training DOJ prosecutors, standing meetings with DOJ leadership, and regular “coffee and danish” meetings with top DOJ officials.”

An November 14, 2022 email from the AFL records shows Sooknanan was directly involved with this operation to give the terrifying powers of federal prosecutors over to unelected extremist organizations including SPLC and the Human Rights Campaign, the top queer pressure organization. She is named as a participant in these standing quarterly meetings between federal prosecutors and leftist extremists to coordinate their actions.

In 2012, a gunman opened fire on a social conservative organization called the Family Research Center. The would-be murderer admitted he had used a SPLC map that falsely labeled FRC a “hate group” to develop his target list. A heroic building manager, Leo Johnson, was shot while preventing the gunman from committing murders the latter planned with the aid of SPLC propaganda. The guard mercifully recovered.

SPLC falsely labeling people and organizations “haters” for disagreeing with Marxists has also provoked other violent incidents, including a student mob that attacked intellectual Charles Murray at Middlebury College and one of its staffers attacking a police station with rocks and homemade bombs. Its “hate” designations have also formed the basis of numerous financial and social attacks on conservatives, including hits on advertisers and mass Internet censorship. Indeed, the Biden administration relied on SPLC to direct its social media speech-strangling operations and many of its fake “domestic terrorism” investigations.

The public records AFL obtained show Sooknanan was part of the Biden DOJ and FBI meetings giving this extremist hate organization essentially the keys to federal prosecutorial powers against Democrats’ opponents. While she worked in the corrupt Civil Rights Division, Sooknanan was involved in the division’s work to use race to decide how Americans’ votes are counted, as the agenda below that AFL obtained also shows.

This same agenda for an October 31, 2023 meeting Sooknanan attended discussed her division’s “hate crimes symposium,” which was part of the Biden administration’s effort to classify disagreeing with Democrats as “domestic terrorism.” Here’s that section from the agenda uncovered by AFL:

The agenda also reinforces Sooknanan’s direct, close involvement with the Biden administration’s shocking FACE Act prosecutions that terrorized children and punished Americans like the Houcks severely for constitutionally protected speech.

Sooknanan, yet another anti-American naturalized immigrant sitting on the DC District Court, took office on January 2, 2025. She received confirmation in the waning days of the Biden administration on party-line votes. On Monday, the DOJ confirmed it had fired the remaining DOJ staff who under Biden used taxpayer resources and federal prosecution powers to punish Americans for exercising their constitutional right to speak against unborn mass murder.

On the infamous DC District Court that oversees many key national cases, Sooknanan can do even more damage to Americans’ constitutional rights than as a federal prosecutor. That court is, of course, strategically stacked with fellow travelers such as the notorious Jeb Boasberg. That’s the Jeb Boasberg whom Supreme Court Justice John Roberts appointed to a secret federal spy court and fell all over himself to defend when Trump criticized an early ruling in what quickly became a lengthy repertoire of unhinged, lawless embarrassments.

It’s yet another indication Justice Roberts needs to improve his instincts about the top enemy of public confidence in the courts. It’s the bad judges, Mr. Roberts, not the people who notice that many like Boasberg and Sooknanan keep emitting horrifyingly disqualifying track records. We are not the bad guys for wanting our courts to be overseen by judges who put Americans’ constitutional rights first. Indeed, our government owes us that as a baseline, and it’s our government’s responsibility to ensure we get it.