Another history-making year in 2024



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Another History-Making Year in 2024

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Your Judicial Watch is fighting to ensure clean elections, secure
borders, and transparency in government – and battling to thwart the
Left’s attack on our constitutional republic through their
censorship of free speech and abuse of power.

We had another history-making year in 2024, including the following
selection of lawsuits and victories that I have no doubt helped
preserve our constitutional republic.

We filed a civil rights lawsuit
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on
behalf of the Libertarian Party of Mississippi, challenging a
Mississippi election law permitting absentee ballots to be received as
long as five business days after Election Day. In an election
law victory
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the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit issued an opinion
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reversing
the lower court ruling on Mississippi’s election law that permitted
the practice.

We filed federal lawsuits against Illinois
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Oregon
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and California
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to
force clean-up of voting rolls.

We filed a $30 million a wrongful death lawsuit
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against
the U.S. Government on behalf of the family of Ashli Babbitt, the U.S.
Air Force veteran who was shot and killed inside the U.S. Capitol by
then-Capitol Police Lt. Michael Byrd on January 6, 2021.

We received records
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from
the U.S. Department of Justice in a FOIA lawsuit, that showed that the
Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) opened a criminal investigation
of Ashli Babbitt after her killing and listed four “potential
violations of federal law,” including felony rioting and civil
disorder.

We uncovered
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Secret
Service records from the Department of Homeland Security in a Freedom
of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit that showed Secretary Alejandro
Mayorkas personally declined then-presidential candidate Robert F.
Kennedy Jr.’s request for Secret Service protection.

One of our investigations revealed FBI records that included an April
2020 email exchange with several officials in the bureau’s Newark
Field Office referring to Dr. Anthony Fauci’s National Institute of
Allergies and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) grant to the Wuhan Institute
of Virology (WIV) in China as including “gain-of-function research
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which “would leave no signature of purposeful human manipulation.”

We filed a class action lawsuit
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against Evanston,
Illinois, on behalf of six individuals over the city’s use of race
as an eligibility requirement for a reparations program which makes
$25,000 payments to black residents and descendants of black residents
who lived in Evanston between the years 1919 and 1969. The lawsuit was
filed in the United States District Court for the Northern District of
Illinois, Eastern Division.

We forced the admission from the White House in federal court that the
transcript of Biden’s testimony to Special Counsel Robert Hur was
not accurate
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and
was missing “filler words (such as ‘um’ or ‘uh’)” and
words that “may have been repeated when spoken (such as ‘I, I’
or ‘and, and’)” which were sometimes “only listed a single
time in the transcripts.” In its subsequent filing the Biden Justice
Department made the extraordinary assertions of executive privilege
and privacy to hide the Biden audio. The agency made the unprecedented
assertion that because “AI” could be used to alter Biden’s words
the material should be kept secret. Later, we requested
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that the
court reject the Biden Justice Department’s request to rewrite the
Freedom of Information Act and that it order the release of the audio
recordings of Biden’s interviews with Hur.

One of our lawsuits forced records
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from
the Department of Justice which showed that the FBI’s Office of
Congressional Affairs provided a Democrat staffer with information on
FBI whistleblowers who detailed the bureau’s targeting of political
opponents and retaliation for their testifying at a May 18, 2023,
hearing of the House Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the
Federal Government.

Heavily redacted records
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from
the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) in one of our lawsuits
showed state election officials in the days before and after the 2020
election flagging online content deemed “misinformation” and
sending it to the Center for Internet Security (CIS), a DHS-funded
nonprofit, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency
(CISA), the Election Integrity Partnership (EIP), and others.

We uncovered Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) records
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that
showed Mike Morell, former acting CIA director under President Obama,
requesting CIA permission to publish a letter
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by
former intelligence community leaders stating that they believed the
laptop emails exposing Hunter Biden’s connections to Ukraine were
Russian disinformation. Morrell’s request for prepublication review
was approved in just six hours by the CIA.

We discovered
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that 113
noncitizens had voted in the June 2024 DC presidential primary.

Records from the Department of Homeland Security, thanks to a FOIA
lawsuit, showed, contrary
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to
what it told media, at least one
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U.S.
Secret Service agent broke in to a hair salon and taped over the
salon’s security camera in Pittsfield, MA, during a July 27, 2024,
campaign fundraising visit by Vice President Kamala Harris.

The Superior Court in Fulton County, GA, entered an order
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granting a
motion for default judgment against District Attorney Fani Willis in
our lawsuit for communications Willis had with Special Counsel Jack
Smith and the House January 6 Committee. In doing so, the court
granted our request for attorneys’ fees and ordered Willis to search
for and provide releasable records to Judicial Watch.

2024 also marked the release of my fourth
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Judicial
Watch book, _Rights and Freedoms in Peril_: _An Investigative Report
on the Left’s Attack on America_. In it, I detail a long chain of
abuses officials and political groups have made against the American
people. The new book is available at JudicialWatchBook.com
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and I encourage you to get a copy if
you haven’t already.

On behalf of our board and all the hard-working staff of Judicial
Watch, we appreciated your support in 2024 as we pursued these and so
many more investigations and lawsuits on the important issues facing
our nation. We pledge to continue fighting aggressively on your behalf
in 2025.

As we begin the year, I encourage you to renew (or begin!) your
support
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of
Judicial Watch!



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