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From BizPac Review: The latest unsealed records regarding the former president’s legal woes were deemed “absolutely incredible” after records showed part of the classified documents case “we never heard.” Throughout the week, United States District Judge Aileen Cannon followed through with a decision regarding the release of records in former President Donald Trump’s Florida case over his alleged mishandling of classified documents. Now, roughly 20 months after his Palm Beach, Florida home was raided by the FBI, commentator Julie Kelly spotlighted a particular detail about an order for Trump’s team to first “come get” what he was indicted for having. “WELL WELL WELL I am ..

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced that the Justice Department has told the court that it will not disclose the audio recordings of special counsel interviews with President Joe Biden in order to protect Biden’s “privacy” interests. The Biden Justice Department informed Judicial Watch and the court that it would assert Exemptions 6 and 7(C) under the Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) to prevent the release of the two audio recordings of Biden’s interviews with Special Counsel Robert Hur. Exemption 6 applies to “personnel and medical files and similar files” when disclosure of such information “would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy.” Ex..

Top Headlines of the Week Press Releases Trump Trial Prosecutors Face Big Problems The Donald Trump business records trial opened yesterday in New York City with prosecutors signaling a wide-ranging case. Documents—business records—related to payments from the Trump Organization to an adult film star showed “election fraud” and a “criminal conspiracy and cover up” designed to prevent information about an alleged affair from emerging before the 2016 presidential election, prosecutor Matthew Colangelo said. NPR’s New CEO Sits on Board of Soros-Funded Activist Group that Pushes for Censorship In a grim indicator of how news will be covered on taxpayer dime, the new head of the gov..

Judge Stops Justice Department Stonewalling in Releasing Biden Interview Recordings Judicial Watch Sues Over Termination of President Trump’s Security Clearance Trump Trial Prosecutors Face Big Problems Biden Agency Sues Republican Donor’s Business for Racial Discrimination NPR’s New CEO Sits on Board of Soros Censorship Group Judge Stops Justice Department Stonewalling in Releasing Biden Interview Recordings We’re pleased to report that a federal judge has blocked the Justice Department’s effort to delay producing recordings of President Biden’s interview with Special Counsel Robert Hur. The Biden Justice Department was trying to help Joe Biden politically by hiding the recordin..

In a grim indicator of how news will be covered on taxpayer dime, the new head of the government-funded National Public Radio (NPR) is on the board of a leftwing activist organization called Center for Democracy and Technology that pushes for censorship and receives funding from George Soros’ Open Society Foundations. Her name is Katherine Maher, a former Wikimedia Foundation CEO, with liberal views publicly expressed throughout the years in her social media posts. In 2018, she called former President Donald Trump a racist in a post that has since been deleted, according to a mainstream newspaper report. A couple of years ago Maher shared a photo of herself in a “President Biden” campa..

From The Federalist: Flyers reportedly posted around a Resource Center Matamoros facility in Mexico encouraged illegal immigrants — who are not eligible to vote in the United States — to vote for President Joe Biden in November, according to The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project. One of the organizations operating out of the Resource Center Matamoros (RCM) has ties to Biden’s Department of Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas, whose articles of impeachment the U.S. House of Representatives delivered to the Senate Tuesday afternoon. Mayorkas — whose disastrous handling of the invasion at the southern border earned him impeachment by the House — was formerly on the ..

From The New York Post: The FBI was tipped off in April 2020 togain-of-function virus researchin China, funded by the agency formerly headed by Dr. Anthony Fauci, that “would leave no signature of purposeful human manipulation,” emails from agents at the bureau show. At least one FBI agent at the bureau’s Newark Field Office referred to the revelation as “alarming.” Another agent called the tip “interesting,” and vowed to follow-up with others at the FBI. Thefive-pages of emailswere obtained by conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch via a Freedom of Information Act request and released Friday. “These smoking gun documents showed the FBI quickly understood that Fauci’s a..

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today it filed an opposition to the Justice Department’s request to the court for an additional month to decide whether to produce audio/video recordings of the special counsel interview of President Biden. Currently, the Justice Department is supposed to let the court and Judicial Watch know its position on releasing the recordings on April 30. But the agency just asked the court for at least one more month (May 27 or later) to state its position on whether it is going to release any recordings. On March 11, 2024, Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice in the U.S. District Court ..

From Newsmax: A new COVID-19 revelation has come about via a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request released Friday. In the FOIA, internal FBI communications show the Bureau was tipped off in April 2020 that the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), under the leadership of Dr. Anthony Fauci, had funded coronavirus gain-of-function research at the Wuhan Institute of Virology. The “alarming” nature of the FOIA draws on a paragraph in the NIAID grant’s “description,” which, in its original form, appears to be erased from the internet. Nonetheless, the paragraph in the FOIA mentions how a “novel” coronavirus would be engineere..

The Biden administration appears to be using a federal agency to go after a family that has donated significantly to Republicans by suing its company for “racially discriminatory hiring practice” over background checks. The business, Sheetz Inc., is a chain of convenience stores and the Sheetz family has long supported Republicans in Pennsylvania and the Midwest, according to records obtained by Judicial Watch. In the last few years, the Sheetz’s have donated hundreds of thousands of dollars to Republican causes and political candidates, including presidential candidate Mitt Romney, Pennsylvania Senate candidate Dave McCormick and the National Republican Congressional Committee. The mo..

The Donald Trump business records trial opened yesterday in New York City with prosecutors signaling a wide-ranging case. Documents—business records—related to payments from the Trump Organization to an adult film star showed “election fraud” and a “criminal conspiracy and cover up” designed to prevent information about an alleged affair from emerging before the 2016 presidential election, prosecutor Matthew Colangelo said. At the heart of the case are thirty-four counts of falsifying business records—generally misdemeanor charges that in this case Manhattan DA Alvin Bragg is attempting to elevate to felonies. Trump defense attorney Todd Blanche told the jury that the thirty-fo..

Top Headlines of the Week Press Releases Judicial Watch: FBI Records Indicate Fauci Agency Funded Gain-of-Function Wuhan Lab Research ‘Would leave no signatures of purposeful human manipulation’ Judicial Watch announced recently it received 5 pages of records from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that show an April 2020 email exchange with several officials in the bureau’s Newark Field Office referring to Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China as including “gain-of-function research” which “would leave no signature of purpo..

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Energy for records about the retroactive termination of former President Donald Trump’s security clearance and/or access to classified information (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Energy(No. 1:24-cv-00744)). In the lawsuit, Judicial Watch cites Trump’s January 12, 2024, motion to compel discovery in his criminal prosecution in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Florida, in which the former president asserts that DOE attempted to terminate his security clearance retroactively after his June 2023 indictment by Special Counsel Jack Sm..

Kangaroo Court Prosecution of President Trump in the ‘Hush Money’ Trial Smoking Gun FBI Records Show that Fauci Funded Gain-of-Function Research Judicial Watch Sues for Damage Assessment on Biden’s Mishandling of Documents Hearing in Lawsuit for Release of ‘Manifesto’ in Nashville School Shooting Texas Captures Half a Million Illegal Immigrants, Thousands of Felons Kangaroo Court Prosecution of President Trump in the ‘Hush Money’ Trial It will be nearly impossible for President Trump to receive a fair trial in a courtroom run by biased, anti-Trump Democratic Party politicians. The kangaroo court proceedings in the Manhattan Supreme Court mark the first-ever criminal trial of a ..

From The Sun Sentinel: In a letter to Whitehouse, Patronis said he found the Democratic senator’s requests in November and March for information about Citizens Property Insurance Corp. “especially alarming” in light of an ethics complaint by conservative foundation Judicial Watch asserting that Whitehouse voted for environmental projects that financially benefitted his wife’s consulting business. Judicial Watch routinely targets Democrats and members of the Biden Administration with lawsuits and Freedom of Information Act requests, and then posts stories about the requests on its website. Former President Trump, meanwhile, is routinely defended by Judicial Watch and its president Tom..

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today it received 5 pages of records from the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that show an April 2020 email exchange with several officials in the bureau’s Newark Field Office referring to Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) grant to the Wuhan Institute of Virology (WIV) in China as including “gain-of-function research” which “would leave no signature of purposeful human manipulation.” Judicial Watch obtained the records in response to a May 17, 2023, FOIA request for: emails and text messages of the Newark Field Office, including to S..

The Biden administration’s failure to secure the Mexican border forced Texas officials to establish a security initiative that has endured heavy criticism from Democrats and the media despite its success in apprehending hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants—including thousands of criminals—and seizing millions of lethal doses of fentanyl. It is known as Operation Lone Star, and it was launched by Governor Greg Abbott in March 2021 as the illegal immigration crisis gripped his border state. Under the program, the Texas Department of Public Safety (DPS) and the Texas National Guard pick up the slack for the federal government, which is charged with protecting the famously porous so..

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) for all records regarding Joe Biden’s improper removal of classified materials while he was a U.S. Senator or Vice President and storage of the materials in unclassified settings as detailed in Special Counsel Robert Hur’s February 5, 2024 report (Judicial Watch v. Office of the Director of National Intelligence (No. 1:24-cv-01036)). Judicial Watch filed the lawsuit after ODNI failed to comply with a February 21, 2024, FOIA request for damage assessments and equity reviews performed by the Office of the Director of Nat..

From The Washington Examiner: Some, such as Tom Fitton, president of the conservative watchdog Judicial Watch, say the term hostages is a “fair analysis” and that Trump would be right to wield pardon power in their favor. “These are folks who are the victim of government abuse,” Fitton told the Washington Examiner. “Call them what you will. They need to be pardoned. They need to have their sentences commuted.” Read more here… The post Riot revisited: Trump’s plan to pardon Jan. 6 defendants appeared first on Judicial Watch.

From Independent: Tom Fitton, the president of the conservative organisation Judicial Watch, says Mr Trump is right to criticise the legal system, including judges, arguing that many of his complaints are “well-founded”. “It’s his absolute right as a citizen to raise these issues, and certainly as a criminal defendant and presidential candidate there are even heightened First Amendment protections for what he has said,” he tells The Independent. “Unfortunately, we have too many judges acting politically as opposed to following and applying the law in an unbiased manner. Read more here… The post Why can’t Donald Trump stop verbally attacking judges, prosecutors – and any..

Fraud and corruption are so rampant in the U.S. government’s mammoth pandemic relief program that the Justice Department created a special COVID-19 Fraud Enforcement Task Force (CFETF) to crack down on scams and recover some of the stolen funds. A few days ago, it published an update on its work and American taxpayers should be furious. In the program’s short existence, over $2 billion have been lost to fraud and more than $1.4 billion have been seized or forfeited. More than 3,500 defendants have been criminally charged and civil enforcement actions have resulted in north of 400 civil settlements and judgements of $100 million. Among those charged by the federal task force is a gang mem..

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that a hearing is set for Tuesday, April 16, 2024, 10 a.m. CT, 9 a.m. ET, before Chancellor I’Ashea Myles in the Chancery Court for Davidson County, 20th Judicial District, in the public records lawsuit against the Metropolitan Government of Nashville and Davidson County for records related to the March 2023 shooting at The Covenant School in Tennessee, including the reported “manifesto” written by the female shooter. Judicial Watch filed an open records lawsuit on behalf of retired Hamilton County Sheriff James Hammond and the Tennessee Firearms Association, Inc. (“TFA”) (Hammond et al. v. Metropolitan Govt of Nashville et al. (N..

Top Headlines of the Week Press Releases Judicial Watch Asks Court to Order Release of CIA Communications with Clinton Campaign Lawyer “The CIA is in cover-up mode about its communications with the lawyer implicated in a shady spy operation against President Trump,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “What is the CIA hiding about its role in this plot against President Trump?” Mexican Drug Cartels Operate on Indian Reservations Near and Far from Southern Border Indian reservations near and far from the Mexican border are actively targeted by drug cartels whose operations are facilitated by President Biden’s open border policies to traffic massive amounts of illegal drugs as ..

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton made the following statement regarding the unprecedented prosecution of President Donald Trump by Democrats in New York: It will be nearly impossible for Trump to receive a fair trial in a courtroom run by biased, anti-Trump Democratic Party politicians. Today’s s kangaroo court proceedings in the Manhattan Supreme Court mark the first-ever criminal trial of a U.S. president. Today is a sad day that will go down in infamy. This is a dangerous attack on the rule of law and a brazen attempt to rig the 2024 elections for President Biden and Democrats. Judicial Watch denounces Alvin Bragg’s corrupt attempt to make former president Dona..

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that a federal court hearing was held Tuesday, April 9, regarding its Freedom of Information Act lawsuit seeking to compel the CIA to produce records about its contacts with former Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann, who was unsuccessfully prosecuted by Special Counsel John Durham for making false statement to a federal agent. Judicial Watch filed the February 2022 lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the CIA failed to reply to an October 2021 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for records regarding meetings or telephonic conversations with Sussmann (formerly an attorney with Perkins Coie) (Judi..

Judicial Watch Asks Court to Order Release of CIA Communications with Clinton Lawyer OUTRAGE: FBI Records Reveal Posthumous Criminal Investigation of Ashli Babbitt Public University Makes Future Journalists Take Diversity Course Mexican Drug Cartels Operate on Indian Reservations Near and Far Judicial Watch Asks Court to Order Release of CIA Communications with Clinton Lawyer It’s an open secret here in Washington that the Central Intelligence Agency strays beyond its foreign purview, inserting itself into domestic political issues. Judicial Watch’s legal team battled the CIA in a federal court hearing this week regarding our Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit seeking to compel th..

From Washington Examiner: Eight days after a U.S. Capitol Police officer shot and killed Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt during the Jan. 6, 2021, political riots, the FBI opened a criminal investigation into her actions and even considered adding her to the terrorist watch list. According to FBI documents received by the legal watchdog Judicial Watch and shared with Secrets, the FBI considered investigating Babbitt for four “potential violations of federal law,” including rioting. Read more here… The post FBI probed Ashli Babbitt, saw her as terrorist, after her Jan. 6 death appeared first on Judicial Watch.

Indian reservations near and far from the Mexican border are actively targeted by drug cartels whose operations are facilitated by President Biden’s open border policies to traffic massive amounts of illegal drugs as well as people across the United States, according to alarming testimony delivered this week in a congressional hearing. Mexican cartels regularly use the porous 62-mile border between Mexico and Arizona’s Tohono O’odham Nation tribe to traffic illicit drugs and migrants then they haul their cargo north to rural Indian communities many miles away in Montana and Wyoming. The situation is so out of control that a congressional committee held a hearing this week to examine th..

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today it received 62 pages of records from the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit, showing that the FBI opened a criminal investigation of Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt after her killing and listed four “potential violations of federal law,” including felony rioting and civil disorder. The records also contain multiple reports of two subjects being shot, including the fatal shooting of Babbitt, during the January 6 Capitol protests. The records were produced in a FOIA lawsuit against the Justice Department and FBI for records related to the death of Ashli Babbitt (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Departmen..

Top Headlines of the Week Press Releases Judicial Watch Asks Court to Deny Biden Justice Department Request to Transfer Ashli Babbitt $30 Million Wrongful Death Lawsuit from California to Washington, DC Judicial Watch announced recently that it has asked a federal court to deny the U.S. Government’s request to transfer the Ashli Babbitt wrongful death lawsuit from California to Washington, DC. Among other legal points, Judicial Watch argues it would prejudice the case and be unjust for Ashli’s family if it were transferred to the hostile forum of District of Columbia. American Smugglers Recruited by Mexican Cartels Wreak Havoc on Once Tranquil Border Region Illegal immigration and seriou..