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Supreme Court Victory

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The Supreme Court has ended
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race-based admissions at Harvard College and the University of North
Carolina.

It was long past time for the Supreme Court to require our higher
education system to follow the Constitution and stop blatant and
unconstitutional race discrimination. As the Supreme Court majority
observes: “Eliminating racial discrimination means eliminating all
of it.”

This decision could not come at a better time, as the extremist left
embraces outright racial discrimination, racial separatism, and racial
segregation under the guise of “anti-racism.”

As Justice Thomas observed in his concurring opinion:

> The solution to our nation’s racial problems cannot come from
> policies grounded in affirmative action or some other conception of
> equity. Racialism simply cannot be undone by different or more
> racialism. Instead, the solution announced in the second founding is
> incorporated in our Constitution: that we are all equal, and should
> be treated equally before the law without regard to our race. Only
> that promise can allow us to look past our differing skin colors and
> identities and see each other for what we truly are: individuals
> with unique thoughts, perspectives, and goals, but with equal
> dignity and equal rights under the law.
We filed
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several _amici
curiae_ briefs alongside the Allied Educational Foundation (AEF) in
support of Students for Fair Admissions’ Supreme Court cases
challenging both Harvard College and the University of North
Carolina’s (UNC) race-based affirmative action admissions programs
(_Students for Fair Admission v. President & Fellows of Harvard
College_
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(No.
20-1199)) and (_Students for Fair Admissions, Inc. v. University of
North Carolina, et al._
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(No.
21-707)).

We and AEF argued in our briefs that the court should reject a prior
1978 Supreme Court opinion that seemingly authorizes racial
discrimination in college admissions (_Regents of Univ. of Cal. V.
Bakke_, 438 U.S. 265 (1978)). Since _Bakke_, there have been “at
least 26 separate opinions. Many of these have attempted to explain
the constitutional rationale for allowing race-based preferences, even
though those rationales appear to directly conflict with the original
meaning and text of the Equal Protection Clause.”

The amici brief highlighted how race-based discrimination (and the
resulting quota mentality) is permeating government. The brief quotes
Vice President Kamala Harris’s attack on equality and implicit call
for race-based quotas:

> There’s a big difference between equity and equality. Equality
> suggests, “everyone should get the same amount.” The problem
> with that, not everybody’s starting out from the same place….
> Equitable treatment means we all end up in the same place.
Referencing this and other Biden administration actions promoting
racial favoritism, the brief noted:

> There is, however, no constitutional guarantee that we will all
> “end up in the same place.” The foregoing statements reveal a
> distorted view of the Equal Protection Clause that would guarantee
> racially proportionate outcomes under the name of equity, not the
> equality of opportunity the Equal Protection Clause has always
> guaranteed. These are more than mere words or theories. Racial
> preferences have increasingly become incorporated in real-world,
> governmental decisions and policies. For example, United States
> Department of Agriculture (USDA) officials recently sought to use
> race as a basis for deciding who receives governmental loan
> forgiveness … In a similar vein, New York issued guidelines …
> govern[ing] which COVID-19 patients are eligible to receive
> life-saving monoclonal antibodies and therapeutics [which required]
> that the patient be a person of color or Hispanic ethnicity.
Last year, we and AEF filed an _amici curiae_ brief
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_in support of the Coalition for Thomas Jefferson High School’s
challenge to race-based admissions policies put in place by the
nationally known public high school in Fairfax County, Virginia.

In January 2022, the city of Asheville, NC, settled
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our federal
civil rights lawsuit after agreeing to remove
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all
racially discriminatory provisions in a city-funded scholarship
program. Additionally, the city also agreed
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to
remove racially discriminatory eligibility provisions in a related
program that provides grants to educators. The City Council approved
the settlement on January 11.

We are also challenging
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a
public teachers’ union contract in Minneapolis that requires race
discrimination in layoffs and hiring. And our lawsuit ended
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a racially
discriminatory scholarship program in North Carolina.

Expect the Left to try to do an end-run around the law to keep up the
racialist agenda. But you can be sure Judicial Watch will monitor and,
when necessary, take legal action to uphold America’s core ideal
that we all be treated equally under the law, regardless of our skin
color!

JUDICIAL WATCH SUES FOR FBI DOCUMENT ALLEGING BIDENS’ BRIBERY SCHEME
WITH BURISMA

The Biden administration isn’t going to investigate the Biden
family, of course, but we are, and there’s a new development this
week.

We filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the
Department of Justice for a copy of the FBI document, FD-1023, that
describes “an alleged criminal scheme involving then-Vice President
Biden and a foreign national relating to the exchange of money for
policy decisions.” Our request also asks for communications about
the FD-1023 (_Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice_
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(No.
1:23-cv-01849)).

This FBI document, which is being hidden contrary to law, could be the
Rosetta Stone to uncovering unprecedented corruption by our nation’s
top elected official. The American people have a right under to law to
see this FBI document so they can judge for themselves whether their
president and his family are crooks.

On May 3, 2023, we submitted unanswered FOIA requests to the Justice
Department and FBI for:

1. The unclassified FBI FD-1023 (CHS Reporting Document) described in
the May 3, 2023 letter from Sen. Grassley and Rep. Comer to Attorney
General Garland and FBI Director Wray (Grassley-Comer-letter.pdf
(house.gov)
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2. All records of communication between Attorney General Garland and
any other official or employee of any branch, department, agency, or
office of the Federal government regarding the letter and/or the
FD-1023 described therein. This includes but is not limited to, any
such communications between the Attorney General and any other
official or employee of the Department of Justice.
3. All records of communication between Director Wray and any other
official or employee of any branch, department, agency, or office of
the Federal government regarding the letter and/or the FD-1023
described therein. This includes, but is not limited to, any such
communications between Director Wray and any other official or
employee of the Federal Bureau of Investigations.
In a Senate floor speech on June 12, 2023, Senator Grassley said
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> The 1023 produced to that House Committee redacted reference that
> the foreign national who allegedly bribed Joe and Hunter Biden
> allegedly has audio recordings of his conversations with them.
> Seventeen total recordings.
>
> According to the 1023, the foreign national possesses fifteen audio
> recordings of phone calls between him and Hunter Biden. According to
> the 1023, the foreign national possesses two audio recordings of
> phone calls between him and then-Vice President Joe Biden. These
> recordings were allegedly kept as a sort of insurance policy for the
> foreign national in case he got into a tight spot. The 1023 also
> indicates that then-Vice President Joe Biden may have been involved
> in Burisma employing Hunter Biden.
A June 8, 2023, _Washington Examiner_ story states
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> Republicans said the FBI form indicated Ukrainian businessman and
> Burisma owner Mykola Zlochevsky allegedly told the FBI informant
> that he paid $5 million apiece to Hunter and then-Vice President
> Biden to shake off a corruption investigation.
House Republicans have threatened to hold FBI Director Wray in
contempt
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of
Congress for not producing the full FD-1023 document but have yet to
follow through on this threat.

We continue to lead the fight to expose the Biden administration's
corruption.

In May 2023, we filed a FOIA lawsuit
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against
the National Archives for Biden family records and communications
regarding travel and finance transactions, as well as communications
between the Bidens and several known business associates.

On October 14, 2022, we sued
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DOJ for
all records in the possession of FBI Supervisory Intelligence Analyst
Brian Auten regarding an August 6, 2020, briefing provided to members
of the U.S. Senate. Ron Johnson (R-WI) and Chuck Grassley (R-IA)
raised concerns that the briefing was intended to undermine the
senators’ investigation of Hunter Biden.

We filed a lawsuit against the U.S. State Department on April 20,
2022, for messages sent through the SMART
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(State
Messaging and Archive Retrieval Toolkit) system that mention Hunter
Biden.

On December 10, 2020, we received 210 pages
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of
records from the State Department which show that former U.S.
Ambassador to Ukraine Marie “Masha” Yovanovitch had specifically
warned in 2017 about corruption allegations against Burisma Holdings.

On October 27, 2020, we received 116 pages
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of records
from the State Department which include a briefing checklist of a
February 22, 2019, meeting in Kyiv between then-U.S. Ambassador to
Ukraine Marie Yovanovitch and Sally Painter, co-founder and chief
operating officer of Blue Star Strategies, a Democratic lobbying firm
which was hired by Burisma Holdings to combat corruption allegations.
At the time of the meeting, Hunter Biden was serving on the board of
directors for Burisma Holdings.

I expect a big fight with DOJ about this smoking-gun Biden corruption
issue and I will report back to you as events warrant!

FORMER VIRGINIA MAGISTRATE GETS RESOLUTION IN SUIT CHALLENGING HER
TERMINATION

Former Virginia magistrate Elizabeth Fuller and officials of the
Office of the Executive Secretary of the Supreme Court of Virginia
(“OES”) have agreed to resolve Ms. Fuller’s First Amendment
lawsuit challenging her termination.

The lawsuit, which Judicial Watch filed on Fuller’s behalf on March
1, 2022, alleged that Fuller was fired from her position as a City of
Alexandria magistrate after commenting
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to
the _Alexandria Times_ about the public outcome of a 2020 complaint
she filed against Virginia bail bondsman Man Nguyen.

Fuller alleged in the lawsuit that the termination violated her First
and Fourteenth Amendment rights. In response, the OES officials
denied Fuller’s allegations and stated that her termination was
lawful as her comments as published in the October 7, 2021,
_Alexandria Times_ article related to criminal proceedings in the
circuit in which she served as a magistrate, violating the _Canons of
Conduct for Virginia Magistrates._

We strongly believe public employees do not sign away their free
speech rights when answering the call to public service. We are
pleased Ms. Fuller and OES were able to resolve their differences.

HAPPY INDEPENDENCE DAY!

Independence Day is a day to celebrate American freedom and the
heroics of our nation’s founders that gave the world the best
example of liberty for a free people in all of history. Our continued
liberty depends on fidelity to the principles of our founding, as
described in the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution. To
that end, to celebrate Independence Day, here is the Declaration of
Independence, in full:

> In Congress, July 4, 1776.
>
> The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America,
> When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one
> people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them
> with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the
> separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of
> Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of
> mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel
> them to the separation.
>
> We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created
> equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain
> unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the
> pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are
> instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of
> the governed, –That whenever any Form of Government becomes
> destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or
> to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its
> foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such
> form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and
> Happiness. Prudence, indeed, will dictate that Governments long
> established should not be changed for light and transient causes;
> and accordingly all experience hath shewn, that mankind are more
> disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right
> themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But
> when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the
> same Object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute
> Despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such
> Government, and to provide new Guards for their future
> security.–Such has been the patient sufferance of these Colonies;
> and such is now the necessity which constrains them to alter their
> former Systems of Government. The history of the present King of
> Great Britain is a history of repeated injuries and usurpations, all
> having in direct object the establishment of an absolute Tyranny
> over these States. To prove this, let Facts be submitted to a candid
> world.
>
> He has refused his Assent to Laws, the most wholesome and necessary
> for the public good.
>
> He has forbidden his Governors to pass Laws of immediate and
> pressing importance, unless suspended in their operation till his
> Assent should be obtained; and when so suspended, he has utterly
> neglected to attend to them.
>
> He has refused to pass other Laws for the accommodation of large
> districts of people, unless those people would relinquish the right
> of Representation in the Legislature, a right inestimable to them
> and formidable to tyrants only.
>
> He has called together legislative bodies at places unusual,
> uncomfortable, and distant from the depository of their public
> Records, for the sole purpose of fatiguing them into compliance with
> his measures.
>
> He has dissolved Representative Houses repeatedly, for opposing with
> manly firmness his invasions on the rights of the people.
>
> He has refused for a long time, after such dissolutions, to cause
> others to be elected; whereby the Legislative powers, incapable of
> Annihilation, have returned to the People at large for their
> exercise; the State remaining in the mean time exposed to all the
> dangers of invasion from without, and convulsions within.
>
> He has endeavored to prevent the population of these States; for
> that purpose obstructing the Laws for Naturalization of Foreigners;
> refusing to pass others to encourage their migrations hither, and
> raising the conditions of new Appropriations of Lands.
>
> He has obstructed the Administration of Justice, by refusing his
> Assent to Laws for establishing Judiciary powers.
>
> He has made Judges dependent on his Will alone, for the tenure of
> their offices, and the amount and payment of their salaries.
>
> He has erected a multitude of New Offices, and sent hither swarms of
> Officers to harass our people, and eat out their substance.
>
> He has kept among us, in times of peace, Standing Armies without the
> Consent of our legislatures.
>
> He has affected to render the Military independent of and superior
> to the Civil power.
>
> He has combined with others to subject us to a jurisdiction foreign
> to our constitution, and unacknowledged by our laws; giving his
> Assent to their Acts of pretended Legislation:
>
> For Quartering large bodies of armed troops among us:
>
> For protecting them, by a mock Trial, from punishment for any
> Murders which they should commit on the Inhabitants of these States:
>
> For cutting off our Trade with all parts of the world:
>
> For imposing Taxes on us without our Consent:
>
> For depriving us in many cases, of the benefits of Trial by Jury:
>
> For transporting us beyond Seas to be tried for pretended offences:
>
> For abolishing the free System of English Laws in a neighbouring
> Province, establishing therein an Arbitrary government, and
> enlarging its Boundaries so as to render it at once an example and
> fit instrument for introducing the same absolute rule into these
> Colonies:
>
> For taking away our Charters, abolishing our most valuable Laws, and
> altering fundamentally the Forms of our Governments:
>
> For suspending our own Legislatures, and declaring themselves
> invested with power to legislate for us in all cases whatsoever.
>
> He has abdicated Government here, by declaring us out of his
> Protection and waging War against us.
>
> He has plundered our seas, ravaged our Coasts, burnt our towns, and
> destroyed the lives of our people.
>
> He is at this time transporting large Armies of foreign Mercenaries
> to compleat the works of death, desolation and tyranny, already
> begun with circumstances of Cruelty & perfidy scarcely paralleled in
> the most barbarous ages, and totally unworthy the Head of a
> civilized nation.
>
> He has constrained our fellow Citizens taken Captive on the high
> Seas to bear Arms against their Country, to become the executioners
> of their friends and Brethren, or to fall themselves by their Hands.
>
> He has excited domestic insurrections amongst us, and has
> endeavoured to bring on the inhabitants of our frontiers, the
> merciless Indian Savages, whose known rule of warfare, is an
> undistinguished destruction of all ages, sexes and conditions.
>
> In every stage of these Oppressions We have Petitioned for Redress
> in the most humble terms: Our repeated Petitions have been answered
> only by repeated injury. A Prince whose character is thus marked by
> every act which may define a Tyrant, is unfit to be the ruler of a
> free people.
>
> Nor have We been wanting in attentions to our British brethren. We
> have warned them from time to time of attempts by their legislature
> to extend an unwarrantable jurisdiction over us. We have reminded
> them of the circumstances of our emigration and settlement here. We
> have appealed to their native justice and magnanimity, and we have
> conjured them by the ties of our common kindred to disavow these
> usurpations, which, would inevitably interrupt our connections and
> correspondence. They too have been deaf to the voice of justice and
> of consanguinity. We must, therefore, acquiesce in the necessity,
> which denounces our Separation, and hold them, as we hold the rest
> of mankind, Enemies in War, in Peace Friends.
>
> We, therefore, the Representatives of the United States of America,
> in General Congress, Assembled, appealing to the Supreme Judge of
> the world for the rectitude of our intentions, do, in the Name, and
> by Authority of the good People of these Colonies, solemnly publish
> and declare, That these United Colonies are, and of Right ought to
> be Free and Independent States; that they are Absolved from all
> Allegiance to the British Crown, and that all political connection
> between them and the State of Great Britain, is and ought to be
> totally dissolved; and that as Free and Independent States, they
> have full Power to levy War, conclude Peace, contract Alliances,
> establish Commerce, and to do all other Acts and Things which
> Independent States may of right do. And for the support of this
> Declaration, with a firm reliance on the protection of divine
> Providence, we mutually pledge to each other our Lives, our Fortunes
> and our sacred Honor.
Have a safe and wonderful Independence Day and God Bless the United
States of America!

Until next week,



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