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Judicial Watch vs Lawfare!

JUDICIAL WATCH SUES DOJ FOR RECORDS ON BIDEN FISA SPYING ON PRESIDENT
TRUMP

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We’re looking to uncover more details of the Biden
administration’s misuse of government agencies to target and perhaps
spy on President Trump.

Judicial Watch filed a FOIA lawsuit
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against the U.S. Department of Justice for all records regarding Biden
era Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) subpoenas, warrants,
court orders and other authorizations obtained to surveil President
Trump (_Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice_
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_(No.
1:25-cv-01969)).

In July 2018, a Judicial Watch FOIA lawsuit forced the release
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of the FISA warrant applications targeting Carter Page, who had been a
Trump campaign adviser. This was the first time in history that such
FISA records were publicly released. (The following month, the Justice
Department admitted in a court filing
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that the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court held no hearings on
the FISA spy warrant applications targeting Page.)

Our legal team sued after the Justice Department failed to respond to
a May 2, 2025, FOIA request for:

> Copies of proposed and/or final subpoenas, warrants, court orders
> (including but not limited to any grand jury, state or federal
> court, FISA and FISC), or other authorizations obtained to surveil
> Donald Trump, or any other person or entity in any investigation
> where Donald Trump was the target of the investigation from January
> 20, 2021, through January 20, 2025. This includes but is not limited
> to surveillance of electronics, cloud-based accounts, phone records,
> and wiretaps.
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> Copies of all responses to the above-mentioned applications in which
> the authorizing body (court or grand jury, etc.) notified the FBI or
> Justice Department that it would not grant the proposed applications
> or recommended changes. If any such responses were provided orally,
> rather than in writing, please provide copies of FBI or Justice
> Department records memorializing or otherwise referencing the
> relevant responses.
>
> Copies of all orders relating to the above-mentioned applications,
> whether granting or denying the applications and certifications,
> denying the orders, modifying the orders, granting the orders, or
> other types of orders.

I have zero doubt – every reason to believe – the Biden gang was
spying on Trump and his team. The Justice Department should follow
federal FOIA law and release all documents about such abuse as soon as
possible.

We have several FOIA lawsuits related to the unprecedented
prosecutorial abuse and weaponization targeting Trump.

In March 2025, we sued
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the Justice
Department for details of any investigations, inquiries, or referrals
concerning potential misconduct of any person working for Special
Counsel Jack Smith (_Judicial Watch Inc. v U.S. Department of Justice_
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(No. 1:25-cv-00801)).

In March 2025, Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis was ordered
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turn
over 212 pages of records to a state court judge. The court also
ordered Willis to detail how the records were found and the reason for
withholding them from the public. The records were belatedly found in
response to a Judicial Watch request and lawsuit for communications
with Special Counsel Jack Smith and the House January 6 Committee.
Previously, the Superior Court in Fulton County, GA, issued an order
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granting $21,578 “attorney’s fees and costs” in the open records
lawsuit for communications Willis had with Special Counsel Jack Smith
and the House January 6 Committee. We received
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payment
(_Judicial Watch Inc. v. Fani Willis et al_
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_(No.
24-CV-002805)).

In February 2025, federal court ordered
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the
Justice Department to provide information on communications between
Special Counsel Jack Smith and District Attorney Fani Willis regarding
the prosecution of then-former President Donald Trump. The U.S.
Justice Department had continued to object to providing any
information even after its prosecutions against Trump were shut down
(_Judicial Watch v U.S. Department of Justice_
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(No. 23-cv-03110).

In February 2024, the Justice Department asked
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a
federal court to allow the agency to keep secret the names of top
staffers working in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office that is
targeting former President Donald Trump and other Americans (_Judicial
Watch Inc. v U.S. Department of Justice_
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(No. 1:23-cv-01485)).

Through the New York Freedom of Information Law, in July 2023,
Judicial Watch received the engagement letter
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showing New York County District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg paid $900 per
hour for partners and $500 per hour for associates to the Gibson, Dunn
& Crutcher law firm for the purpose of suing Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) in
an effort to shut down the House Judiciary Committee’s oversight
investigation into Bragg’s unprecedented indictment of former
President Donald Trump.

DID STATE DEPARTMENT COMPILE DOSSIERS ON TRUMP TEAM!

Joe Biden’s censorship operation was compiling files on his
political enemies from the Trump world. We’re suing to reveal the
details.

Judicial Watch filed a FOIA lawsuit
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against the U.S. State Department for all records that allege
President Trump or any current or former member of his cabinet are
“purveyors of disinformation” (_Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S.
Department of State_
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_(No.
1:25-cv-01978)).

Our complaint states:

> According to media reports on April 30, 2025, Secretary of State
> Marco Rubio said that the State Department labeled a member of
> President Trump’s cabinet as a purveyor of disinformation,
> compiling a dossier of social media posts from the unnamed cabinet
> member. See, e.g., “Rubio says State had dossier accusing Trump
> Cabinet member of disinformation,” The Hill, April 30, 2025
> (available at
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We sued after State failed to respond to a May 1, 2025, FOIA request
for records, including those of the Global Engagement Center (GEC),
about social media posts of any current or former member of President
Donald Trump’s cabinet, to include Trump himself, alleged to
constitute misinformation, disinformation, or malign influence. We
also asked for any guidance or policy documents.

During the April 30, 2025, cabinet meeting
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Rubio said: “We had an office in the Department of State whose job
it was to censor Americans.”

Rep. Bill Huizenga (R-MI), chairman of the House Foreign Affairs South
and Central Asia Subcommittee, said at a hearing
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in April about the center: “The GEC [Global Engagement Center] was
initially authorized for the statutory purpose of countering foreign
propaganda and disinformation efforts. Despite that mandate, for years
the GEC instead deployed its shadowy network of grantees and
sub-grantees to facilitate the censorship of American voices …”

In March, we filed a petition for a _writ of certiorar_
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the Supreme Court of the United States concerning our lawsuit
asserting that the California Secretary of State retaliated against us
because of an accurate election integrity video posted to YouTube just
before the 2020 Election (_Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Shirley Weber, in
her official capacity as Secretary of State of the State of
California_
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_(No.
2:22-cv-06894)). The California Secretary of State used its
well-established working relationship with Big Tech to have YouTube
remove and censor our video.

This is not our first challenge of government censorship.

One Judicial Watch lawsuit has uncovered numerous records showing the
government working with outside groups to censor free speech:

* In November 2024, we uncovered records
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from
the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) revealing an extensive
effort by government and non-government entities to monitor and censor
social media posts on fraud during the 2020 election.
* In June, Homeland Security records
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from
this case 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), which is a division of DHS, the Election Integrity Partnership
(EIP), which was created to flag online election content for
censorship and suppression.
* In December 2023, Homeland Security records
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showed a
close collaboration between CISA and the leftist EIP to engage in
“real-time narrative tracking” on all major social media platforms
in the days leading up to the 2020 election.
* In November 2023, additional Homeland Security records
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showed
government involvement in the EIP pressure on Google, Twitter,
Facebook, TikTok, Pinterest, Reddit and other platforms to censor
“disinformation.” (_Judicial Watch Inc. vs. U.S. Department of
Homeland Security_
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(No. 1:22-cv-03560 )).

In August 2024, we received records
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from
the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) revealing
that it was trolling on social media and reporting on alleged
“domestic violent extremism” (DVE).

JUDICIAL WATCH SUES FOR COLLUSION DOCUMENTS OF ARIZONA AG AND JACK
SMITH

We continue to dig into the lawfare against President Trump.

Judicial Watch just filed a lawsuit
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against Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes for her communications
with former Special Counsel Jack Smith (_Judicial Watch v. Kristin
Mayes and Arizona Department of Law_
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(CV 2025-020674).

We are alleging:

> On January 13, 2025 several media outlets reported that Attorney
> General Mayes had formally requested case documents from U.S.
> Department of Justice special counsel Jack Smith's criminal
> investigation into President Donald Trump regarding the 2020
> presidential election.
>
> 12News reported that “Mayes said the documents could ensure
> defendants in Arizona's fake electors case would be held
> accountable.”
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We filed the Arizona Public Records Law complaint in the Superior
Court of Arizona after the attorney general failed to respond to a
January 13, 2025, request for:

> Any communications and/or documents with Jack Smith and/or the DOJ
> Special Counsel group/team from January 1, 2022, to the completion
> of this request.

Collusion against President Trump by Democratic politicians with Jack
Smith and the weaponized Biden Justice Department are of great public
interest. Attorney General Mayes is acting as if she has something to
hide.

In April we filed a lawsuit
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against Mayes, who seemed to have used her office for political
purposes in threatening a prosecution of President Trump on the eve of
the 2024 presidential election. Only one document was found (and kept
secret) relating to a criminal investigation, while dozens of
media-related documents
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were revealed (_Judicial Watch Inc. v. Kris Mayes et al_
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CV 2025 00675)).

In March we sued
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the Justice
Department for details of any investigations, inquiries, or referrals
concerning potential misconduct of any person working for Special
Counsel Jack Smith (_Judicial Watch Inc. v U.S. Department of Justice_
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(No. 1:25-cv-00801)).

In March Georgia District Attorney Fani Willis was ordered
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to turn
over 212 pages of records to a state court judge. The court also
ordered Willis to detail how the records were found and the reason for
withholding them from the public. The records were belatedly disclosed
in response to a Judicial Watch request and lawsuit for communications
with Special Counsel Jack Smith and the House January 6 Committee. In
January we were awarded
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$21,578
for “attorney’s fees and costs” incurred in the case. The court
previously found Willis in default
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and stated:
“The Court finds Defendant [Willis, in her official capacity] is in
default and has been since 11 April 2024” (_Judicial Watch Inc. v.
Fani Willis et al._
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_(No.
24-CV-002805)).

In January, a federal court ordered
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the Justice
Department to provide us with information on communications between
Smith and Willis regarding the prosecution of then-former President
Donald Trump. In May, the Justice Department was directed to search
text messages from the Special Counsel’s Office for responsive
records (_Judicial Watch v U.S. Department of Justice_
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(No. 23-cv-03110).

ILLEGALS AT MEAT PROCESSING PLANT WITH STOLEN IDS SCREENED WITH
E-VERIFY

Illegal immigration is not a victimless crime. Our _Corruption
Chronicles_ blog exposes
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the cost
to legal Americans from abuse of a broken federal vetting system.

> Years after Judicial Watch reported
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> that the government’s system to verify if employees are authorized
> to work legally in the United States approved hundreds of thousands
> of illegal immigrants, federal authorities have uncovered widespread
> identity theft at a meat processing plant that used the defective
> tool to screen 100% of its staff. A recent Immigration and Customs
> Enforcement (ICE) worksite enforcement operation at Glenn Valley
> Foods in Omaha, Nebraska busted over 70 illegal aliens who were
> using stolen Social Security numbers and identities to unlawfully
> obtain wages, health benefits and employment authorization,
> according to the agency. The criminal identity theft scheme left
> “more than 100 real victims to face devastating financial,
> emotional and legal consequences,” ICE writes in its announcement
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> of the operation.
>
> Incredibly, Glenn Valley Foods was reportedly 100% compliant with
> E-Verify
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a
> costly government database launched nearly three decades ago that
> screens new employees using records from various agencies to confirm
> candidates are in the country legally. The web-based system claims
> to match information provided by new hires against Department of
> Homeland Security (DHS) and Social Security Administration (SSA)
> records. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) operates
> it because the agency is responsible for administering the
> nation’s lawful immigration system. The program is available to
> employers in every state as well as the District of Columbia, Puerto
> Rico, Guam, the U.S. Virgin Islands, and Commonwealth of Northern
> Mariana Islands. For private businesses it is voluntary but federal
> contractors and subcontractors must use it to vet workers. The
> government has for years claimed that E-Verify is “the best means
> available to electronically confirm employment eligibility.”
>
> The Republican congressman (Don Bacon) who represents Omaha in the
> U.S. House, confirms that Glenn Valley Foods “
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> with E-Verify 100%”
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> and therefore the company is also a “victim.” Other casualties
> of the Omaha identity fraud ring include a Californian who has been
> working for nearly 15 years to restore their identity and repair
> financial damage caused by the identity theft of one of the illegal
> immigrants; A disabled person in Texas, who was unable to work, and
> could not collect Social Security disability payments because an
> illegal alien was fraudulently using their identity and earning
> wages at Glenn Valley Foods; A Colorado resident ordered by the
> Internal Revenue Service (IRS) to repay over $5,000 after their
> income was falsely increased by the illegal immigrant’s identity
> theft; A full-time nursing student from Missouri who lost their
> college tuition assistance because it was fraudulently reported that
> they earned too much money after an illegal alien used their Social
> Security number for employment at Glenn Valley Foods.
>
> Expressing frustration over the left’s narrative condemning recent
> immigration operations, the Homeland Security Investigations special
> agent in charge of the Glenn Valley Foods case points out that
> individuals have gone on the record referring to the identity
> thieves arrested by his agents as “good, hardworking, and
> honest.” The reality is that “these so-called honest workers
> have caused an immeasurable amount of financial and emotional
> hardship for innocent Americans,” said the supervisory agent, Mark
> Zito. “If pretending to be someone you aren’t in order to steal
> their lives isn’t blatant, criminal dishonesty, I don’t know
> what is.” The DHS official goes on to confirm that the criminals
> who stole these identities did not just break the law, they upended
> lives. “These victims aren’t faceless statistics,” special
> agent Zito said. “They’re real people who are being denied
> healthcare and have lost educational opportunities.” Zito also
> revealed that the investigation is ongoing.
>
> If in fact Glenn Valley Foods screened every single employee with
> E-Verify it clearly demonstrates that the system’s widely reported
> flaws, identified in federal audits for years, have not been
> corrected. Just a few years ago, a DHS Inspector General report
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> blasted USCIS, exposing “deficiencies” that illustrate the
> program needs “additional capabilities” to effectively confirm
> that individuals are eligible for employment in the United States.
> At the time the DHS watchdog found that E-Verify authorized
> employment for about 280,000 non-U.S. citizens without using the
> photo-matching process to confirm their identities and that 613,000
> individuals were approved without meeting USCIS’s own verification
> requirements. Those are considered illegal immigrants, the
> demographic the system is supposed to prevent from unlawfully
> obtaining wages in the U.S.

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