Judicial Watch Warns Oregon to Clean Voter Registration Lists or Face Federal Lawsuit


 

According to your state’s responses to the EAC’s [federal government’s Election Assistance Commission] survey, 19 Oregon counties reported removing zero voter registrations from November 2020 to November 2022 pursuant to Section 8(d)(1)(B) of the NVRA for failing to respond to a Confirmation Notice and failing to vote in two consecutive general federal elections. Another 10 counties reported just a handful of such removals during the same two-year period.

Furthermore, not a single one of Oregon’s 36 counties reported any data whatsoever to the EAC regarding inactive registrations. Instead, in the relevant column where the data should have been, the survey response for each of Oregon’s counties merely stated, “Data not available.”

Oregon’s non-compliance with the NVRA is further illustrated by the unusually high registration rates observed in several of its counties. Comparing the data your state reported to the EAC regarding the total registrations for each county to the U.S. Census Bureau’s most recent five-year estimates of the numbers of resident citizens over the age of eighteen suggests that eight Oregon counties have more voter registrations than citizens of voting age. Several federal courts have determined that such high registration rates are sufficient grounds for alleging a failure to comply with the NVRA’s requirement to make reasonable efforts to remove voters by reason of death or change of address.

All records of communication between any official or employee of the Department of Justice and any official or employee of the Executive Office of the President regarding the creation, editing, or release of the transcript of the interviews of President Biden by Special Counsel Robert Hur on October 8, 2023 and October 9, 2023. This request includes, but is not limited to, all such communications including Mr. Hur and/or any other official or employee assigned to or employed by Mr. Hur’s office.

All records of communication between any official or employee of the Department of Justice and the court reporter(s) responsible for the creation or editing of the transcripts of the interviews described in part one of this request and/or any other officer, employee, or representative of Free State Reporting, Inc. This request includes, but is not limited to, all such communications including Mr. Hur and/or any other official or employee assigned to or employed by Mr. Hur’s office.

All directions, instructions, or other guidance documents provided to the court reporter(s) responsible for the creation or editing of the transcripts of the interviews described in part one of this request and/or any other officer, employee, or representative of Free State Reporting, Inc. regarding the creation or editing of those transcripts.

We have also considered that, at trial, Mr. Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory. Based on our direct interactions with and observations of him, he is someone for whom many jurors will want to identify reasonable doubt. It would be difficult to convince a jury that they should convict him-by then a former president well into his eighties-of a serious felony that requires a mental state of willfulness. 

The Pentagon dedicates tens of millions of dollars annually to Critical Race Theory (CRT) and Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) programs throughout the armed forces and cadets at the nation’s military academies receive extensive training about racism, sexism, unconscious bias, and intersectionality.

A year-long research project conducted by a special commission at a public university think tank has uncovered the unbelievable details behind a costly Department of Defense (DOD) initiative to root out so-called white privilege white supremacy in the military. The study, conducted by the Center for American Institutions at Arizona State University (ASU), began as a review of civic education in the military and uncovered a fervent woke movement throughout the nation’s armed forces. “Our research team did not expect to find Critical Race Theory so embedded and pervasive,” the center’s director, Donald T. Critchlow, an ASU American political history professor, writes in the introduction of a recently published report. He confirms that there is CRT and DEI training across the military from the Pentagon through the ranks.

It is important to note that the sole purpose of the U.S. armed forces is to defend the nation against external enemies, therefore the DOD’s mission is to provide the military forces needed to deter war and ensure the country’s security. The agency is the government’s largest with 3.4 million service members and civilians—in the Army, Marine Corps, Navy, Air Force, Space Force and Coast Guard—stationed at 4,800 sites in over 160 countries. Under the Biden administration the DOD budget for DEI training has increased significantly from $68 million in fiscal year 2022 to $86.5 million in fiscal year 2023, the report states. The agency is requesting a whopping $114.7 million for fiscal year 2024, according to DOD figures obtained by ASU researchers. “Training is implemented by a vast DEI bureaucracy that extends from senior leaders at the Pentagon to the lowest ranks,” the report says, adding that the “U.S. military now has a well-developed, taxpayer-funded DEI bureaucracy dedicated to rooting out ‘white privilege’ and white supremacy, and that allows for (and sometimes teaches) the overt criticism of the United States, its founding, its founders, and its founding documents, alleging that they are all rooted in systemic racism.”

Few training modules are available to the public, but the report includes enough to get the full picture. The Air Force teaches airmen to use proper pronouns as an element of inclusion and its Air Combat Command toolkit features examinations of white privilege. An Army course on race and gender in American military history defines racism as a possibility for a dominant group, while people of color merely express prejudice and gender as a social construct. The Navy promotes a “sailor’s drag show aboard a warship” and its anti-extremist training considers the violent and radical Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement to be a positive, apolitical public policy issue. A Marine Corps CRT course emphasizes diversity and inclusion while claiming that colorblindness is unsound because it protects white supremacy. The Marine Corps has also launched a special initiative “to eradicate racism, sexism, and negative biases that diminish our warfighting effectiveness.”

The military academies all have federally mandated offices of diversity and inclusion that coordinate training and support based on gender, sexuality, race, ethnicity and promote celebrations based on those identities. West Point offers a minor in diversity and inclusion studies and courses such as “social inequality” as well as classes that focus on feminist and queer theory. The Air Force Academy has a Transgender Working Group and U.S. history is an optional elective while required classes cover BLM, the New York Times’ 1619 project that aims to “reframe the country’s history by placing the consequences of slavery and the contributions of Black Americans at the very center of the United States” and white fragility. The Naval Academy requires faculty to attend a diversity and inclusion conference and future Humanities and Social Sciences instructors to submit diversity statements describing how they will contribute to the academy’s diversity and inclusion mission.

In the last few years we have sued the DOD to obtain more information about the military’s outrageous DEI initiatives, including anti-American CRT propaganda at three academies. In 2022 we received hundreds of pages of records outlining CRT instruction at West Point that includes material on “whiteness,” a social science class on race, gender, and sexuality that focuses on queer theory, and a graphic titled “MODERN-DAY SLAVERY IN THE USA.” Months later, we obtained the Air Force Academy’s CRT training of cadets that shows the academy has made race and gender instruction a top priority. This includes a race, gender and sexuality course as a core class and mandatory training for cadets and staff on DEI concepts and skills to decrease incidents of microaggressions and unconscious bias. A cultural immersion movie nights initiative was also launched to teach cadets about racism, racial discrimination and the several historical events and policies that have impacted minorities through cinema.

The world will quickly be getting to know presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Kamala Harris. Her long relationship—personal and political—with the scandal-scarred California power broker Willie Brown is instructive. Brown was instrumental in Harris’s rise in California politics. In return, she may have protected him and his allies from damaging investigations.

Brown rose through the ranks of the California State Assembly and became Speaker in 1980. He served in that post for fourteen years, ruling with an iron fist in a velvet glove, rewarding allies with lucrative patronage posts and punishing opponents. He called himself the “Ayatollah of the Assembly.” In 1996, he was elected mayor of San Francisco, serving two terms. Along the way, he attracted the attention of the FBI, which repeatedly investigated him but failed to bring charges.

The FBI may have failed, but Brown had plenty of critics. “The legacy of Willie Brown has been one of corruption and incompetence in government, and the [FBI] probes were a reflection of that,” the head of San Francisco Common Cause told the San Francisco Chronicle in 2004.

By 2004, Brown was on his term-limited way out of office, but one of his key allies, Kamala Harris, was on her way up. Harris was elected San Francisco District Attorney in 2003. Brown had put his formidable political machine behind Harris, swinging a come-from-behind election her way.

It was not the first time Willie Brown had given Kamala Harris a helping hand. The two dated in 1994 and 1995. In 1994, Brown appointed the then-obscure county prosecutor to two influential state commissions—the Unemployment Insurance Appeals Board and the California Medical Assistance Commission. Harris’s political rise was launched—elected DA in 2003 and 2007, California Attorney General in 2010 and 2014, United States Senator in 2016, and Vice President in 2020.

Questions persist about what Harris may have done for Brown and his allies. The investigative journalist Peter Schweizer noted in a recent interview with Breitbart that in her first DA race, Harris ran against the incumbent prosecutor, who was investigating corruption allegations against Brown. “And when she won,” Schweizer said, “she dropped a whole series of cases” connected to Brown.

The biggest case, Schweizer said, involves an 800-page document from the diocese of the Catholic Church in San Francisco detailing accusations of sexual abuse linked to “individuals and entities” with connections to the Democratic Party. But when “Kamala Harris came in, not only did she not prosecute anybody involved in the scandals, she actually refused to release the 800-page document. And it has been reported in San Francisco, that document disappeared and never was to be found.”

Those are serious charges that raise serious questions. What cases were dropped when Kamala Harris became San Francisco DA? Does she appear in records of FBI investigations of Willie Brown? What became of the San Francisco diocese investigation? Where is the 800-page report? Judicial Watch is investigating these issues and other matters linked to Democratic Party power brokers in California.

As for Willie Brown, now 90, he remains a strong Harris supporter. In a hastily called sidewalk press conference after President Biden announced he would not run for re-election, Brown suggested that the president should resign immediately, stepping aside for Harris.

A Biden resignation would “silence all of this nonsense about how to select some new nominee,” Brown said. “Her chances go up if he would at this moment say not only am I no longer the candidate, I’m no longer the president—she is.”