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Paul Sperry @paulsperry BREAKING: Judicial Watch Sues Defense Department for Details of Alleged Conversation between CIA Employees Seeking to ‘Get Rid’ of then-President Trump

Tom Fitton @TomFitton BREAKING: @JudicialWatch Files $30 Million Wrongful Death Lawsuit against U.S. Government on Behalf of Ashli Babbitt’s Husband and Estate

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it received 31 pages of records in a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit from the Department of Homeland Security that show the identity of the companion of Obama’s chef Tafari Campbell as a woman named “Ms. Taylor,” who reported that “[Campbell] fell in the water and struggled for a couple of seconds before giving up and sinking underwater.” The records also show that the Secret Service could not get the first two boats they tried to use to search for Campbell to function and had to use the groundskeeper’s boat. Also,...

Former President Donald Trump reportedly rejected suggestions from his attorneys to arrange a settlement with the Justice Department to avoid federal charges and instead, he listened to the advice of Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton, a conservative legal activist, and others who said he could legally keep the classified documents and should fight government prosecutors. Trump attorney Christopher Kise wanted to see last fall if he could quietly approach the Justice Department to negotiate a settlement with the hopes that Attorney General Merrick Garland and the agency would want to avoid bringing charges against the former president, The Washington Post...

Judicial Watch settled its election integrity lawsuit against Pennsylvania after the commonwealth acknowledged it removed more than 178,000 ineligible registrations on its voter rolls, the watchdog group announced Thursday. The settlement commits the commonwealth and five of its counties to publicly reporting the number of registered and eligible voters, both active and inactive, for the next five years. “[Pennsylvania] also agreed to publish the total number of address confirmation notices sent to registered voters and the number returned as undeliverable or not responded to,” according to Judicial Watch, and “the total number of voters removed from the registration rolls on...

NEW: Depositions of Obama IRS Officials Detail Knowledge of Tea Party Targeting We have been at the forefront in uncovering the Obama IRS scandal that showed the agency’s abuse of conservative Americans and organizations in the run-up to the 2012 election. We’re still learning the details of their conspiracy. We have just received previously sealed court documents, including depositions of IRS officials Lois Lerner, the former director of the Exempt Organizations Unit of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and Holly Paz, her top aide and former IRS director of Office of Rulings and Agreements, which show they knew most Tea...

Judicial Watch announced today that it received previously sealed court documents, including depositions of IRS officials Lois Lerner, the former director of the Exempt Organizations Unit of the Internal Revenue Service (IRS), and Holly Paz, her top aide and former IRS director of Office of Rulings and Agreements, which show that they knew most Tea Party organizations were legally entitled to tax-exempt status in the run up to the Obama reelection in 2012. -snip Lerner’s and Paz’s depositions were sealed by Judge Barrett in April 2017, after Lerner’s and Paz’s lawyers claimed the two officials were receiving threats. The court...

On October 29, 2021, the U.S. Director of National Intelligence released a declassified report on the origins of COVID-19. The report acknowledges that, "the first human infection with SARS-CoV-2 most likely was the result of a laboratory-associated incident, probably involving experimentation, animal handling, or sampling by the Wuhan Institute of Virology."

Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) told Judicial Watch in a response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that it has communications from Pfizer in an investigative file targeting Project Veritas. (In October 2021, Project Veritas, a nonprofit investigative journalism organization, published two viral stories [here and here] about the Pfizer covid vaccine.)

The Supreme Court Should Overturn Roe v. Wade Why No One Is Surprised Hillary Clinton’s Influence-Peddling Foundation Collapsed Documents Reveal Bill Clinton’s Trip with Ghislaine Maxwell TRIAL UPDATE: Judicial Watch Lawyers in Court Trial against California’s Gender Quotas for Corporate Boards Judicial Watch Seeks to Depose Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot about Her Racist Interview Policy Judicial Watch Sues on Behalf of Massachusetts Teacher Fired for Opposing Critical Race Theory The Supreme Court Should Overturn Roe v. Wade The rule of law and our constitutional system was undermined by the Roe v. Wade decision that led to the legalization of...

Each year I like to remind our supporters to recall what life was like for the Pilgrims who arrived on these shores in December of 1620. As the Plimoth Plantation describes: Many of the colonists fell ill. They were probably suffering from scurvy and pneumonia caused by a lack of shelter in the cold, wet weather. Although the Pilgrims were not starving, their sea-diet was very high in salt, which weakened their bodies on the long journey and during that first winter. As many as two or three people died each day during their first two months on land. Only...

Judicial Watch Warns 14 Counties in Five States to Clean Voter Lists or Face Federal Lawsuits Biden Administration Illegally Censored Afghanistan Reports? Secret Service Travel Cost $2,252,600.50 For President Biden Judicial Watch Warns 14 Counties in Five States to Clean Voter Lists or Face Federal Lawsuits In important news, Judicial Watch sent official notice letters to election officials in 14 counties and five states—Arkansas, California, Illinois, New York, and Oregon—notifying them of evident violations of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA). The letters detail how these states’ own reported data show that their counties removed an “absurdly...

DC Police Release Audio, Video, Photos in Ashli Babbitt Killing Durham Exposes Clinton Connections Behind ‘Steele Dossier’ Smear U.S. to Spend $200 Million More for Illegal Immigrant Minor Shelters DC Police Release Audio, Video, Photos in Ashli Babbitt Killing Piece by piece we’re putting together a clearer picture of the unnecessary shooting death of Ashli Babbitt on January 6, 2021, in the U.S. Capitol Building. Our suspicion about the tragic affair is heightened by the government’s recalcitrance in releasing the information it has. This week we received multiple audio, visual and photo records from the DC Metropolitan Police Department...

School CRT Program Targets Babies? Judicial Watch Tells Court FBI May Have Violated Law in 1/6 Probes School CRT Program Targets Babies? If you want a close look at the madness of critical race theory, look at what’s going on in Montgomery County Public Schools (MCPS), Maryland’s largest school system. Little of this is connected to reality, and it’s no wonder parents everywhere are objecting. We received two sets of records related to the teaching of critical race theory, including a training course with information about a book titled “Antiracist Baby” that introduces the youngest readers to “the concept...

January 6 Documents Show Police Expected Large Group to March on Capitol Judicial Watch Sues for Fauci Financial Records & Royalties Paid to NIH Employees Record-Breaking Mexican Border Arrests, Caravan En Route, Panama Warns 65K More January 6 Documents Show Police Expected Large Group to March on Capitol Previously hidden documents show that on the day before the January 6 rally featuring President Trump, US Park Police expected a “large portion” of the attendees to march to the US Capitol and that the FBI was monitoring the demonstrations, including travel there by “subjects of interest.” In sum, federal law...

Records Reveal Coordinated Effort to Advance CRT Initiatives in Loudoun County Judicial Watch Sues Asheville Over Racially Discriminatory Scholarship Program Federal Agencies Unveil Plans to Combat “Anti-Voter Burdens” of People of Color Critical Race Theory Roils Virginia Governor Race Records Reveal Coordinated Effort to Advance CRT Initiatives in Loudoun County Loudoun County in Virginia is the center of the storm on Critical Race Theory. School district officials there are obsessed with pushing, often dishonestly, the CRT agenda. We learned this from 3,597 pages of records we received from the county. They reveal a coordinated effort to advance CRT initiatives...

BREAKING: New Questions about U.S. Capitol Police Shooting of Unarmed Ashli Babbitt DHS Ends Worksite Enforcement to Protect ‘Noncitizen Victims’ from Deportation Targeting Trump: Durham Uncovers New Clinton, FBI Connections in Russia Probe BREAKING: New Questions about U.S. Capitol Police Shooting of Unarmed Ashli Babbitt Previously secret records we have obtained show there was no good reason to shoot and kill Ashli Babbitt in the U.S. Capitol on January 6. The Biden-Garland Justice Department and the Pelosi Congress have much to answer for over the mishandling and cover-up of this scandalous killing of an American citizen by the U.S....

Rhode Island School District Is Training Teachers in Critical Race Theory Judicial Watch Sues for Details on Biden Administration Shut Down of China-COVID Investigation Judicial Watch Sues Pentagon for Videos/Photos of Afghans Clinging to or Falling from Aircraft in Kabul Jail for Bangladeshi Smuggler Caught Amid Rise in Migrants from Terrorist Nations ~snip~ Judicial Watch Sues for Details on Biden Administration Shut Down of China-COVID Investigation The Biden State Department shut down a national security investigation into China’s role in the COVID pandemic, and the American people deserve to know why. So we filed a Freedom of Information Act...

Judicial Watch Sues Justice Department for Records of Ashli Babbitt Killing President Trump Keynotes Judicial Watch Roundtable in Miami U.S. Gives “Immigrant-Serving Organizations” $10 Million Under Obama Program Judicial Watch Sues Justice Department for Records of Ashli Babbitt Killing January 6 has become a touchstone in the uneven application of justice aginst those who lean conservative. In particular, the obviously political secrecy and stonewalling in the police killing of Ashli Babbitt is undermining the rule of law. Undaunted by the obstacles thrown our way, we filed a FOIA lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for records related to...

Judicial Watch Sues DOJ for Answers About its Challenge to Georgia’s Voter Integrity Bill HHS Documents Reveal Sexual and Physical Abuse of Unaccompanied Minors Judicial Watch Sues HHS for Details of Biden’s COVID-19 Community Corps Judicial Watch Sues HHS for Biodistribution Studies of the COVID Vaccines California Judge Heard Arguments on Gender Quotas for Corporate Boards Judicial Watch Sues DOJ for Answers About its Challenge to Georgia’s Voter Integrity Bill For years we have reported on Democrats blocking efforts to make elections honest. Not surprisingly, the problem continues under Joe Biden. The latest battlefield is Georgia. We filed a...