In Focus delivers deeper coverage of the political, cultural, and ideological issues shaping America. Published daily by senior writers and experts, these in-depth pieces go beyond the headlines to give readers the full picture. You can find our full list of In Focus pieces here.If you want a glimpse of what’s wrong with the federal court system today, this recent opinion in League of Women Voters v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security by federal Judge Sparkle Sooknanan, preventing the Department of Homeland Security from helping states verify the citizenship of registered voters, is a prime example. In addition to being filled with partisan diatribes against the Trump administration, Sooknanan, a Biden nominee to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, doesn’t even discuss two relevant federal statutes that authorize exactly what the government was doing and indulges in a bizarre and incorrect reading of a clearly controlling third statute.To understand this controversy, you first need to know about the Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements database, which was created by Congress in the 1986 Immigration Reform and Control Act. SAVE, which is run by the DHS, enables federal, state, local, and tribal governments to check the immigration status of individuals applying for public assistance.