Judicial Watch announced recently that it has filed in the California court of appeals a Petition for Writ of Mandate that would require a trial court to issue a temporary restraining order halting California Governor Gavin Newsom’s plan to use taxpayers’ dollars to provide cash payments to illegal aliens. Though the lower court said that Judicial Watch taxpayer clients are likely to succeed on the merits (that Governor Newsom has no authority under law to spend the money), there’s more harm to illegal aliens during the coronavirus crisis than there is to California’s 40 million taxpayers and citizens.

“Montgomery County Executive Elrich and the Montgomery County Council have no legal authority on their own to spend taxpayer money for cash payments to illegal aliens,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The coronavirus challenge doesn’t give politicians a pass to violate the law. If they want to give cash payments to illegal aliens, they must be accountable and transparent, and, as federal law requires, pass a state law to do so.”

Celebrating the Muslim holy month of Ramadan, the U.S. is giving an Islamic country well known as a terrorist recruiting ground $22 million to combat coronavirus disease. In a ceremony announcing that American taxpayers are among the world’s first to provide funds for Bangladesh’s COVID-19 “readiness and response” efforts the Trump administration’s ambassador to the South Asian country noted that Ramadan serves as a reminder to be thankful for the front-line workers confronting the health crisis.

On January 5th 2017, “Obama held an Oval Office meeting where he discussed Flynn and the transcripts of his call with the ambassador with his leadership team, including Sally Yates, James Comey, Biden and others” – Fitton claims. According to statements made by Sally Yates, Obama suggested using the Logan Act, “a legal nullity” to disingenuously target President Trump’s incoming National Security Advisor.