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Trump Indictment: A Brazen Attempt to Rig the
2024 Election
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 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 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) (Judicial Watch, Inc. v.
Griswold, et al. (No. 20-cv-02992)). In August 2021, the
court ruled that our lawsuit could proceed.
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The number of outdated registrations removed by Colorado under a key NVRA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.
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
in a federal lawsuit we filed in
2017.
We settled 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 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 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 of our
challenge to the Democratic state legislature’s “extreme”
congressional gerrymander.
In May 2022, we sued 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. (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 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 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 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 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 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 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
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. 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,” 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 (CAPREE) and the Brazil Joint Action Plan to Eliminate Racial and Ethnic
Discrimination and Promote Equality (JAPER). 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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