Nashville Shooter Manifesto Update
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Nashville Shooter Manifesto Update

COURT GREENLIGHTS JUDICIAL WATCH LAWSUIT TO CLEAN UP OREGON VOTER
ROLLS

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Judicial Watch continues to make progress in cleaning up voter rolls
across the country.

A federal court in Oregon ruled
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that our lawsuit filed on behalf of the Constitution Party of Oregon
and two registered voters to force the clean-up of Oregon’s voter
rolls may proceed.

Our lawsuit alleges that Oregon violated the National Voter
Registration Act
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(NVRA), which requires states to “conduct a general program that
makes a reasonable effort to remove” from the official voter rolls
“the names of ineligible voters” who have died or changed
residence.

In June, the U.S. Department of Justice filed a statement of interest
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in
this lawsuit.

In a June 6 Justice Department press release, Assistant Attorney
General for the Civil Rights Division Harmeet Dhillon said
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“Accurate voter registration rolls are critical to ensure that
elections in Oregon are conducted fairly, accurately, and without
fraud…. States have specific obligations under the list maintenance
provisions of the NVRA, and the Department of Justice will vigorously
enforce those requirements.”

We initially filed the lawsuit
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in
October 2024 to enforce basic voter list maintenance provisions under
Section 8 of the NVRA after uncovering
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a
broad failure to clean up voter rolls in dozens of Oregon counties
(_Judicial Watch, et al. v. The State of Oregon et al._
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(No. 6:24-cv-01783)).

In 2018, the Supreme Court confirmed
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that
such removals are mandatory.

In our complaint, we argue that Oregon’s voter rolls contain large
numbers of old, inactive registrations and that 29 of Oregon’s 36
counties removed few or no registrations as required by federal
election law. We assert that Oregon and 35 of its counties had overall
registration rates exceeding 100%; and that Oregon has the highest
known inactive registration rate of any state in the nation.

Recently, federal courts in California and Illinois separately ruled
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that
our lawsuits may proceed against those states to force them to clean
up their voter rolls.

Judicial Watch announced
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in May that its work led to the removal of more than five million
ineligible names from voter rolls nationwide.

We applaud the court’s decision to allow our case to continue in our
effort to clean up voter rolls in Oregon. We now have three federal
lawsuits against three states to clean potentially millions of names
from the voter rolls.

As you know, we are a national leader in voting integrity and voting
rights. Our team of experienced voting rights attorneys stopped
discriminatory elections in Hawaii and cleaned up voter rolls across
the country, among other achievements
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Robert Popper, a Judicial Watch senior attorney, leads our election
law program. Popper was previously in the Voting Section of the Civil
Rights Division of the Justice Department, where he managed voting
rights investigations, litigations, consent decrees, and settlements
in dozens of states.

Recently, the Commonwealth of Kentucky reported that 735,000
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ineligible voter registrations had been removed from its voter rolls
since 2019 by the State Board of Elections as part of its 2018 consent
decree settling a lawsuit by Judicial Watch.

As part of its 2022 settlement
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New York
City alone has removed 918,139 ineligible names from its rolls. Recent
data show 477,056
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removals between March 2023 and February 2025, which is in addition to
the 441,083 previously reported removals.

In July, we filed its opening brief
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to the Supreme Court of the United States in a case filed on behalf of
Congressman Mike Bost and two presidential electors, who are before
the court to vindicate their standing to challenge an Illinois law
extending Election Day for 14 days beyond the date established by
federal law (_Rep. Michael J. Bost, Laura Pollastrini, and Susan
Sweeney v. The Illinois State Board of Elections and Bernadette
Matthews_
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_(No.
1:22-cv-02754, 23-2644, 24-568)).



MORE NASHVILLE SHOOTER MANIFESTO DOCUMENTS RELEASED TO JUDICIAL WATCH

Judicial Watch received another 485 pages
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from the “manifesto” of the March 27, 2023, shooter, Audrey Hale
(also known as Aiden Hale), who was the perpetrator of The Covenant
School shooting in Nashville, TN.

The records detail the shooter’s violent thoughts, the targeting and
planning of the shooting attack on The Covenant School, and
transgender-related obsessions.

Police reported
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that Hale, 28, broke into the elementary school in Nashville, TN,
where she had been a student, and shot and killed three students and
three adults. In March 2025, Metro Nashville Police Department
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its investigative case summary.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released the pages in
response to our FOIA lawsuit (_Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of
Justice_
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(No. 1:23-cv-01483)). After multiple releases containing zero records,
the FBI finally began producing pages, stating they were no longer
subject to law enforcement proceedings. Many names and faces in the
photos were redacted, as were entire pages.

These are the writings of a deeply disturbed individual, but there was
no point in the Biden FBI hiding them. We appreciate the Trump
administration’s transparency. This information may possibly help
Americans avoid tragedies like this in the future.

We previously obtained 112 pages
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of
records in April 2025, and an additional 231 pages
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in June 2025—bringing the total number of pages released through
this lawsuit to 828. The full “manifesto” consists of 2,056 pages,
and the FBI is continuing to produce additional pages to us.

Our lawsuit also seeks materials provided to the FBI by local law
enforcement. The FBI is withholding these documents, claiming they are
categorically exempt from disclosure under FOIA. We continue to press
for their public release.

In a separate case, in May 2023, we filed an open records lawsuit
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on behalf of
retired Hamilton County Sheriff James Hammond and the Tennessee
Firearms Association, Inc. (“TFA”) (_Hammond et al. v.
Metropolitan Govt of Nashville et al._
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(No. 23-0538-III)). The court later consolidated our lawsuit with
several others related to release of public records from The Covenant
School shooting.

TRUMP ADMINISTRATION SAVING MILLIONS IN ‘SCIENCE’ GRANTS TO DEI
PROJECTS

The radicals running the Biden administration were liberally
distributing your tax dollars through the National Science Foundation
to their pet DEI projects at universities. Our _Corruption Chronicles_
blog reports
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> The Trump administration is saving American taxpayers a substantial
> amount of money by terminating
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>
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of “science”
> grants that fund all sorts of preposterous Diversity, Equity and
> Inclusion (DEI) initiatives at dozens of universities and a few
> nonprofits throughout the United States. The cash is disbursed by
> the National Science Foundation (NSF), established by Congress in
> 1950 to promote the progress of science, advance national health,
> prosperity, and welfare and to secure national defense. Instead,
> under the Biden administration the agency went on a remarkable DEI
> spending frenzy that has supported a multitude of exclusionary
> leftist projects at private and public academic institutions
> nationwide as well as organizations that claim to advance minority
> causes.

> One of the country’s largest public universities alone has lost
> tens of millions of dollars in NSF grants identified by the Trump
> administration as supporting blatant DEI projects that are unlikely
> to further the agency’s mission. With an undergraduate enrollment
> of 142,000, Arizona State University (ASU) has received around $28.5
> million from the NSF for over two dozen DEI initiatives recently
> placed on the chopping block. Among them is a $2.4 million project
> called Black Girls as Creators described as an intersectional
> learning ecosystem toward gendered racial equity in artificial
> intelligence education to help black girls focus on
> intersectionality and racial equity. An “institutional
> transformational” project that aims to reshape faculty policies
> for gender equity and intersectionality received nearly $3 million.
> A program that positioned engineering faculty to support black
> students through awareness, knowledge, capacity building and
> community got $733,633 and over half a million dollars went to a
> community transformation experiment that claims to increase justice,
> equity, diversity, and inclusion in academic standards.

> Public universities on opposite sides of the country are losing a
> total of $2 million for identical projects titled “Challenging
> Anti-Black-Racism in Civil and Environmental Engineering
> Curriculum” that claim to serve the national public interest by
> establishing education practices that acknowledge low-income
> communities of color are disproportionately exposed to air and water
> pollution. The University of South Florida in Tampa received $1.5
> million for the environmental justice initiative and the University
> of California Berkeley $500,000. UC Berkeley also lost a $1.6
> million allocation from the NSF to help center scientific and
> environmental literacy around the voices of communities of color
> since, according to the grant document, the entire field is
> “aligned with dominant views that can marginalize, exclude, and
> erase the knowledge and expertise of communities of color.” The
> renowned northern California university asserts that its study will
> “contribute new understandings of how race and culture influence
> learning, as well as how racism and biases have shaped research to
> date.”

> The list of canceled DEI science grants is extensive with many of
> the hefty awards—most around a million dollars—using similar
> language in the name of combatting widespread discrimination in the
> field. The University of Denver in Colorado got north of a million
> dollars to mobilize equity and raise inclusivity in Science,
> Technology, Engineering, and Mathematics (STEM) by creating a
> special coalition that will hire more faculty with “intersectional
> identities” and increase women as well as other underrepresented
> groups. The University of Missouri in St. Louis also got over a
> million dollars to advance equity in STEM academic careers by
> cultivating a climate where women, African Americans, Hispanics, and
> other historically underrepresented groups will thrive. The City
> University of New York (CUNY) received $999,839 to implement
> institutional transformation emphasizing the advancement of Black,
> Indigenous, and People of Color (BIPOC) faculty. A south Florida
> public university received $999,853 to focus on inclusive support
> for gender diversity and intersectional minorities, especially
> Latina, and African American women in hiring and retention.

> Among the nonprofits that saw their government money cut is the
> Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh, which received nearly $600,000 to
> address accessibility and inclusion issues at visitor-serving
> organizations such as museums, botanical gardens, and zoos that
> “tend to serve disproportionately white, able-bodied, and
> high-income audiences.” A Public Broadcasting Station (PBS) in New
> York, got over $3 million from the government to better engage
> underserved families in STEM by targeting low-income Latinx (a
> gender-neutral term fabricated by the left) families with media and
> text-based mechanisms. The stated goal is to build knowledge about
> how innovative, culturally responsive tools can help Latinx and
> low-income families engage in fun STEM learning at home. These are
> just some examples from a drawn-out list documenting the waste of
> over a billion dollars spent by the previous administration to
> appease the left. The complete list
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of cancelled NSF grants can
> be viewed here.

Until next week,



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