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Trump Indictment: A Brazen Attempt to Rig the 2024 Election

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Let’s cut to the chase. Trump is a crime victim. New York
Democrats’ reckless scheme to prosecute and jail President Trump is
a dangerous attack on the rule of law and a brazen attempt to rig the
2024 elections for President Biden and Democrats. We denounce Alvin
Bragg’s corrupt attempt to make Trump a political prisoner. Congress
and every responsible government official should do everything
possible under the law to undo this attempt to wreck our republican
form of government. Judicial Watch is on the case and has filed (and
will file) multiple open records requests and other court actions to
expose and try to stop this dangerous abuse of power.

JUDICIAL WATCH VICTORY: COLORADO AGREES TO SETTLE LAWSUIT OVER
INELIGIBLE VOTERS

We continue our string of successes in cleaning up the nation’s
voter rolls.

In the latest, Colorado's secretary of state agreed to settle
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a lawsuit alleging that Colorado failed to remove ineligible voters
from its rolls. As part of its settlement, Colorado will report to us
on its yearly progress in cleaning up its rolls for the next six
years. Since we filed this lawsuit, Colorado voter roll removals
increased by 78%, from 172,379 to 306,303 per reporting period.

We filed the lawsuit
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in
October 2020, in the U.S. District Court for the District of Colorado
on behalf of three residents, alleging that the state had failed to
clean its voter rolls as required by the National Voter Registration
Act of 1993 (NVRA
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(_Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Griswold, et al_
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(No. 20-cv-02992)). In August 2021, the court ruled that our lawsuit
could proceed
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We were later joined in the suit by the American Constitution Party of
Colorado and the Libertarian Party of Colorado.

Our lawsuit alleged that high registration rates and other voter roll
metrics “indicate an ongoing, systemic problem with Colorado’s
voter list maintenance efforts.” We sought a court order declaring
that Colorado and its secretary of state violated the NVRA and
ordering them to “develop and implement a general program that makes
a reasonable effort to remove the registrations of ineligible
registrants from the voter rolls in Colorado.”

The number of outdated registrations removed by Colorado under a key
NVRA provision increased after we filed suit, from 172,379
registrations for the reporting period ending in 2018 to 306,303
registrations for the period ending in 2022—an increase of 78%. The
settlement agreement requires Colorado to provide us with its most
recent voter roll data for each Colorado county each year for six
years. This data is to include:

* The total number of registered and eligible voters, active voters,
and inactive voters.
* The total number of address confirmation notices sent to Colorado
voters pursuant to the NVRA, the number received back confirming or
changing an address, and the number that were undeliverable or not
returned.
* The total number of registrations addresses removed pursuant to
key provisions of the NVRA.

Coming on the heels of a massive voter roll clean up in Colorado
thanks to our lawsuit, this settlement agreement is a major victory
for all Colorado voters. Simply put: Cleaner voter rolls mean cleaner
elections.

We are a national leader in voting integrity and voting rights. Our
team of highly experienced voting rights attorneys have stopped
discriminatory elections in Hawaii, and cleaned up voter rolls in
California, Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky, among other achievements
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In February Los Angeles County confirmed removal of 1,207,613
ineligible voters from its rolls since last year under the terms of a
settlement agreement
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in a federal lawsuit
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we filed in 2017.

We settled
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a federal election integrity lawsuit against New York City after the
city removed 441,083 ineligible names from the voter rolls and
promised to take reasonable steps going forward to clean its voter
registration lists.

Kentucky
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also removed hundreds of thousands of old registrations after it
entered into a consent decree to end another Judicial Watch lawsuit.

In February 2022, we settled
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a
voter roll clean-up lawsuit against North Carolina and two of its
counties after North Carolina removed over 430,000 inactive
registrations from its voter rolls.

In March 2022, a Maryland court ruled in favor
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of our challenge to the Democratic state legislature’s “extreme”
congressional gerrymander.

In May 2022, we sued
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Illinois on behalf of Congressman Mike Bost and two other registered
Illinois voters to stop state election officials from extending
Election Day for 14 days beyond the date established by federal law.

We expect more voter registration numbers from the various states a
bit later this year so I expect we will have other voter roll clean up
legal actions soon!

WE CONTINUE TO SEEK JUSTICE FOR OUR CLIENT’S BROTHER KILLED BY
ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT

The tragedy caused by criminal illegal aliens in our midst continues
unabated.

We filed a lawsuit against the Justice Department and the State
Department for extradition records of illegal alien Saul Chavez, who
ran over and killed William “Denny” McCann, the brother of our
client Brian McCann (_Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of
Justice, et al_
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(No. 1:23-cv-00701).

Judicial Watch sued after both the Justice Department and the State
Department failed to respond adequately to similar FOIA requests
submitted on February 1, 2023, for access to Chavez’s extradition
records.

Our legal team explained to the court:

> In June 2011, Saul Chavez ran over and killed William “Denny”
> McCann, brother of Judicial Watch client Brian McCann. At the time,
> Chavez was an unlawfully present criminal alien and had just
> completed a two-year term of probation for a 2009 DUI conviction.
> Chavez was charged with felony aggravated driving under the
> influence but was released by the Cook County Sheriff’s Office in
> November 2011 despite an U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement
> (ICE) detainer. Chavez subsequently fled to Mexico …
Chavez was extradited
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from Mexico in December 2022.

We submitted a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request to the State
Department for Chavez’s extradition records, which include, but are
not limited to, “correspondence between the Office of the Legal
Adviser and the U.S. Department of Justice, state and federal
authorities in the U.S.,” as well as “copies of court records of
the legal proceedings” and “committal documents, such as the
extradition order, affidavit of waiver, legal briefs and hearing
transcript, decision memo to the Secretary of State or to his or her
Deputy, and the surrender warrant.”

To date, the State Department has failed to respond – let alone
produce records – to our request.

The Justice Department denied the request outright, citing, among the
other reasons, the privacy interests of the criminal Chavez.

In July 2015, Brian testified
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before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee in a hearing titled
“Oversight of the Administration’s Misdirected Immigration
Enforcement Policies: Examining the Impact on Public Safety and
Honoring the Victims.” Brian McCann explained:

> Denny was crossing Kedzie Avenue on a marked crosswalk four years
> ago and was violently struck by a drunk driver who dragged Denny
> under his car for a block in an attempt to flee before Denny died.
> The family was notified by the Chicago Police and the killer was
> placed into custody and charged with aggravated DUI causing death.
> Two days later ICE issued a detainer because the young man was an
> illegal alien with a prior felony. The family was assured by the
> Cook County prosecutor that the defendant would not be allowed to
> post bail and be released. Three months later the Cook County Board
> passed the ordinance that effectively requires the sheriff to ignore
> detainers. During the intervening weeks after Denny’s violent
> death, Cook County President Toni Preckwinkle and former mayoral
> candidate and Commissioner Jesus Garcia pushed for the ordinance and
> rammed it through on September 7, 2011. Two months later the killer
> made bail and absconded to Mexico.
“My family and I continue to seek justice for Denny. Now that he
has been extradited from Mexico, we are one step closer. But we still
want to know: What took so long? With the help of Judicial Watch, we
hope to find out,” said Brian McCann.

Denny McCann was killed by an illegal alien with a prior felony –
and then that criminal was released and fled to Mexico as a result of
Chicago’s lawless and deadly sanctuary policies. And to make matters
worse, the Biden administration is unlawfully hiding records about why
it took over a decade to extradite from Mexico this murderous
criminal.

During his effort to obtain justice for his brother’s violent death,
we filed suit
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on behalf of Brian McCann against the Cook County Sheriff in April
2013, asking the court to order the sheriff’s department to carry
out its legal duties under federal immigration law. Chavez had been
charged with felony aggravated driving under the influence but was
released by the sheriff from a Cook County jail in November 2011
despite an ICE immigration detainer. The case was dismissed by the
circuit court and afterward, in March 2015, the Illinois Supreme Court
declined
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to hear the case.

In March 2021, our taxpayer lawsuit against the San Francisco
Sheriff’s sanctuary policy uncovered that over 2,400 criminal
illegal aliens
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were
released under the department’s policy on communications with
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) about criminal illegal
aliens in the Sheriff’s custody.

U.S. GIVES MILLIONS TO RACE, ETHNICITY, SOCIAL INCLUSION PROJECT IN
LATIN AMERICA

The Biden administration’s woke agenda knows no bounds as its
bureaucrats look for novel ways to spend your tax dollars to pursue
radical and Marxist agenda items. Here’s a recent example
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from our _Corruption Chronicles_ blog.

> Weeks after earmarking a million dollars to empower marginalized
> racial and ethnic communities in Europe, the Biden administration is
> spending another million on a State Department program in Latin
> America known as Race, Ethnicity, and Social Inclusion (RESI). The
> new allocation will help Brazil and Colombia “advance reforms that
> promote equity and equality, eliminate barriers to inclusion, and
> create equal access and opportunities for members of marginalized
> and underserved communities,” according to a grant announcement
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> published a few days ago.
>
> The recent European and Latin American grants appear to be the
> global expansion of the Biden administration’s costly, domestic
> effort to advance racial equity and support for underserved
> populations through taxpayer-funded programs. The president launched
> the governmentwide initiative on his first day in office with a
> lengthy executive order titled Advancing Racial Equity and Support
> for Underserved Communities Through the Federal Government
>
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> The 2021 document claims that “entrenched disparities” in laws,
> public policies, and private institutions have denied equal
> opportunity to individuals and communities and that the health and
> climate crises have exposed inequities while a “historic movement
> for justice has highlighted the unbearable human costs of systemic
> racism.” Therefore, the order states, the federal government
> should pursue a “comprehensive approach to advancing equity for
> all, including people of color and others who have been historically
> underserved, marginalized, and adversely affected by persistent
> poverty and inequality.” It further says that “by advancing
> equity across the Federal Government, we can create opportunities
> for the improvement of communities that have been historically
> underserved, which benefits everyone.”
>
> Many key federal agencies have implemented racial equity plans as
> per Biden’s order. The Department of Labor has dedicated $260
> million to promote “equitable access” to government unemployment
> benefits by addressing disparities in the administration and
> delivery of money by race ethnicity and language proficiency. The
> Treasury Department named its first ever racial equity chief, a
> veteran La Raza official who spent a decade at the nation’s most
> influential open borders group. The Department of Defense (DOD) is
> using outrageous anti-bias materials that indoctrinate troops with
> anti-American and racially inflammatory training on diversity
> topics. The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) created an equity
> commission to address longstanding inequities in agriculture. The
> nation’s medical research agency has a special minority health and
> health disparities division that issued a study declaring COVID-19
> exacerbated preexisting resentment against racial/ethnic minorities
> and marginalized communities.
>
> Last month the administration launched the initiative’s global
> version by dedicating a million dollars to “empower marginalized
> racial and ethnic communities in Europe
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> focusing on people of African descent and Roma people. Among the
> goals is to mitigate structural racism, xenophobia, and
> discrimination found in institutions designed to protect and serve
> all people in society and ensure the fair administration of, and
> access to, justice for marginalized racial and ethnic communities.
> The U.S. also aims to counter societal discrimination and violence
> by advancing equity, social inclusion, and equality for all. The
> overseas investment is critical, according to the Biden
> administration, because members of marginalized racial, ethnic, and
> indigenous communities around the world often are disproportionately
> discriminated against, forced to endure high levels of violence and
> excruciating labor conditions in migration, are systematically
> denied access to justice, and continually bear the brunt of racial
> discrimination, xenophobia, and violence in society.
>
> The administration’s latest allotment in Latin America will fund
> two programs, the Colombia Action Plan on Racial and Ethnic Equality
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> (CAPREE) and the Brazil Joint Action Plan to Eliminate Racial and
> Ethnic Discrimination and Promote Equality
>
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> CAPREE recognizes the important contributions of African-descendent
> and indigenous peoples and seeks to elevate recognition of their
> cultures in the U.S. and Colombia by implementing programs to
> address social barriers that affect Afro-Colombian and indigenous
> communities. JAPER targets racism and addresses racial health
> disparities, environmental justice, equal access to economic
> opportunities and equal access to the justice system. The initiative
> recognizes that Brazil and the U.S. are multi-ethnic, multi-racial
> democracies that celebrate the rich contributions of people of
> African descent and indigenous populations. Similar to the domestic
> initiatives, the goal in Colombia and Brazil is racial and ethnic
> equality as well as social inclusion.

Until next week …





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