Michigan Leftists Targeted Trump

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SUPREME COURT TO HEAR MISSISSIPPI BALLOT DEADLINE CASE

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The U.S. Supreme Court has granted review
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of our landmark election integrity case on behalf of the Libertarian
Party of Mississippi. We are seeking to uphold a ruling
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by the U.S.
Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, which struck down a
Mississippi law unconstitutionally allowing election officials to
count mail-in ballots received up to five days after Election Day.

The Supreme Court now has an opportunity to reaffirm that “Election
Day” means what it says under federal law. Counting ballots received
after Election Day not only violates federal law but encourages voter
fraud and undermines voter confidence. The Supreme Court should uphold
the historic decision by the Fifth Circuit that sensibly concluded
that counting ballots received after Election Day is unlawful.

The October 2024, Fifth Circuit appellate opinion
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found:

> Congress statutorily designated a singular “day for the
> election” of members of Congress and the appointment of
> presidential electors. Text, precedent, and historical practice
> confirm this “day for the election” is the day by which ballots
> must be both cast by voters and received by state officials. Because
> Mississippi’s statute allows ballot receipt up to five days after
> the federal election day, it is preempted by federal law. We reverse
> the district court’s contrary judgment and remand for further
> proceedings.

In August, we filed a brief
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with the Supreme Court, opposing Mississippi’s attempt to overturn
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the Fifth
Circuit’s October 2024 decision (_Michael Watson, Mississippi
Secretary of State v. Republican National Committee, et al._
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(No. 24-1260)).

Our brief recounts:

> In reversing the district court on the merits, the [Fifth Circuit]
> panel faithfully followed this Court’s precedent … [T]his Court
> found that the Election Day statutes preempted a Louisiana law that
> allowed congressional candidates to be elected in October…. In
> interpreting the meaning of “day of the election” within the
> Election Day statutes, this Court found that “[w]hen the federal
> statutes speak of ‘the election’ of a Senator or Representative,
> they plainly refer to the combined actions of voters and officials
> meant to make a final selection of an officeholder.” …
> Accordingly, the “day of the election” “may not be consummated
> prior to federal election day.”

We initially filed the civil rights lawsuit
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in
February 2024 on behalf of the Libertarian Party of Mississippi,
challenging the election law. The suit was consolidated with one filed
by the Republican National Committee, the Mississippi Republican
Party, and other complainants.

This case is part of our national leadership in voting integrity and
voting rights. Our team of voting rights attorneys has stopped
discriminatory elections in Hawaii, and cleaned up voter rolls in
California, Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky, among other achievements
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We recently filed an _amici curiae_
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(friends of the court) brief along with the Allied Educational
Foundation (AEF) to the Supreme Court of the United States, asking the
court to reverse the Third Circuit’s decision
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denying the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF) standing to sue
for voter information guaranteed under the National Voter Registration
Act
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(NVRA).

In October 2025, the Supreme Court heard oral arguments
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in the historic case we filed on behalf of Congressman Mike Bost and
two presidential electors, arguing to vindicate their standing to
challenge an Illinois law allowing the counting of ballots received up
to 14 days after the Election Day 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)).

Other examples of our election law work include:

Federal courts in Oregon
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California and Illinois
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recently ruled that Judicial Watch’s lawsuits against those states
may proceed, forcing them to clean their voter rolls.

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

MICHIGAN ATTY. GEN. COORDINATED WITH LEFTIST NONPROFIT TO TARGET TRUMP
AND SUPPORTERS

The seemingly endless list of lawfare instances against President
Donald Trump and his supporters has a new entry.

We received 5,789
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pages of records from the Michigan Department of Attorney General in a
Michigan Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request that show the
state’s coordination with the nonprofit States United Democracy
Center
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which pushed indictments
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of President Donald Trump’s supporters, lawyers, activists, and
Republican Party officials who disputed the 2020 election.

These documents are startling and affirm concerns that Democrat swing
state prosecutors were targeting Trump and his supporters with
political prosecutions.

Indictments of Trump alternative electors by Michigan Democratic
Attorney General Dana Nessel were thrown out
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by a judge earlier this year. The documents suggest a broad conspiracy
by several states to prosecute Americans over 2020 election disputes.

We submitted the Michigan FOIA request
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on January 2, 2025, for records related to the States United Democracy
Center and/or the Voter Protection Project regarding the investigation
of Republican state electors for the 2020 presidential election. On
August 11, 2025, we informed
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Michigan Attorney General Veronica Estrada that we are “prepared to
pursue [our] legal rights and remedies in the Michigan Court of
Claims” to obtain all remaining responsive records.

The records show that States United has a multistate operation aimed
at prosecuting and disbarring Trump attorneys and associates in
several states. States United was started by Norm Eisen
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who was “ethics czar” for
President Barack Obama and special counsel to the House Judiciary
Committee for the impeachment of Trump.

The Michigan documents
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confirm close contact between States United and Michigan state
officials.

The records include several email exchanges between top States United
litigator Jonathan Williams and Heather S. Meingast, Division Chief,
Civil Rights and Elections Division of the Michigan Attorney
General’s Office.

On August 8, 2024, Williams writes in an email
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to Meingast:

> Following up on our earlier conversations regarding the USPS, in
> collaboration with our clients in Nevada, we’ve put together a
> draft Common Interest Agreement for your consideration. Once we’ve
> got everyone on board, we can schedule a multi-state call to discuss
> further. Please let us know if you have any questions or concerns.

The records include a States United action plan
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which discusses efforts to target Republicans who raised 2020 election
questions in several states, including Michigan:

> Election Deniers scored multiple wins in the Arizona and Michigan
> primaries and will now head to the general election in November. As
> States United has documented, candidates who continue to spread lies
> about our elections are running for positions that oversee or
> influence election administration across the country, posing a
> threat to our democracy.

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> In Michigan, Attorney General Dana Nessel is seeking a special
> prosecutor to consider charges against nine people in an alleged
> plot to gain improper access to vote-tabulating machines used in the
> 2020 election. One of the nine is Matthew DePerno, the Election
> Denier chosen by Michigan Republicans to run against Nessel this
> fall.

A September 28, 2023, email
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from Williams to Meingast details interest in cases around the country
attempting to have President Trump removed from the 2024 ballot via
the disqualification clause of the 14th Amendment. States United
Democracy Center would go on to provide a “litigation tracker,”
tallying all efforts in states aimed at removing Trump from the
ballot.

(The U.S. Supreme Court ruled unanimously
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in March 2024 that states cannot use the 14th Amendment’s
insurrection clause to remove a federal candidate from the ballot. The
court determined that only Congress has the power to enforce this
provision against federal officeholders.)

The records include a Michigan court filing
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in _Davis v. Benson and Trump _(No. 23-000128)) which points out that
Michigan Secretary of State Jocelyn Benson, who oversees state
elections, had made “many public comments” which “demonstrate
her extreme and incurable bias against President Trump.”

(On November 14, 2023, the Michigan Court of Claims issued an order
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in favor of the defendants, and later, on June 12, 2024, formally
closed the remaining counts with prejudice.)

On February 22, 2024, Tiger Mar, a project assistant at States United
emails
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Pier King-Piepenbrok
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in the Michigan Attorney General’s Office and mentions “our
regular briefings.”

We are assisted by Robert Muise of The Muise Law Group in Ann Arbor.

We continue to work to obtain records from Arizona
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Nevada
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and Wisconsin
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which appear to have been part of the same coordinated efforts led by
the States United Democracy Center.

SECURE BORDER, FEWEST ILLEGAL CROSSINGS IN HISTORY

Our once porous southern border is now operating effectively as we
enter President Trump’s second year in office. Our _Corruption
Chronicles_ blog has the details
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> When it comes to border security, fiscal year 2026 got off to a
> remarkable start with the lowest illegal crossings in October in
> history, according to preliminary figures
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> by Customs and Border Protection (CBP), the Department of Homeland
> Security’s (DHS) frontline border agency. It is welcome news after
> a record-breaking 7.6 million illegal aliens entered the country
> under Biden, including hundreds of thousands with serious criminal
> records and over 1.7 million
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> countries DHS says pose a national security threat to the U.S.
> Classified as Special Interest Aliens (SIA) by the government, the
> migrants that pose a security threat came from some 26 nations,
> including Afghanistan, Cuba, Iran, Iraq, Libya, Nigeria, Syria, and
> Turkey, China, North Korea, Kyrgyzstan, Mauritania, Tajikistan,
> Uzbekistan, and Venezuela. Many SIAs—including some on the U.S.
> terrorist watchlist—were released inside the country under Biden,
> risking public safety and national security.

> The Trump administration hit the ground running by quickly securing
> the once porous southern border and apprehending thousands of
> criminal aliens nationwide to mitigate an unprecedented immigration
> crisis that gripped the nation and devastated American towns along
> the Mexican border under Biden. Almost immediately after President
> Trump’s inauguration the bleeding stopped with illegal crossings
> plummeting by more than a third in January and a 93% decline in
> migrants apprehended at ports of entry after Jan. 20. By the summer
> the numbers were consistently at all-time lows
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> an average of just 148 daily illegal crossings in June and only
> 4,598 illegal immigrants arrested by the Border Patrol in July,
> marking a stunning 92% decrease from July 2024 (56,400) under Biden.
> DHS celebrated that apprehensions along the Southwest border for the
> entire month of July were lower than the daily average under the
> Biden administration. Another important fact the agency revealed is
> that no illegal immigrants were released inside the U.S.

> The crackdown continues into the 2026 fiscal year, which began on
> October 1. Not only did CBP record the lowest crossings in agency
> history, but October also marked the sixth consecutive month that it
> released zero illegal aliens inside the U.S. CBP had 30,561 total
> encounters nationwide, marking a 79% decrease from October 2024.
> Since Jan. 21 through the end of October, there have been 106,134
> total enforcement encounters along the Southwest Border— less than
> the Biden administration’s monthly average of 155,485 encounters.
> Daily average apprehensions have also plummeted an incredible 95% to
> 258 compared to 5,110 under Biden. DHS Secretary Kristi Noem touts
> it as the “most secure border ever” and CBP Commissioner Rodney
> Scott assures that his agency is “not easing up” but rather
> “pushing even harder.” Afterall, Scott reminds, that his
> agency’s mission is to secure the border and safeguard the nation
> without the excuses and politics used under Biden and his disastrous
> border czar, Kamala Harris.

> DHS is also cleaning up a huge mess inside the country, conducting
> regular operations that target criminal aliens with serious records
> released—rather than deported—under Biden. Judicial Watch has
> reported extensively on the initiative which has been ignored by the
> mainstream media and led to the arrest of dozens of murderers,
> rapists, drug traffickers, gang members, and child sex predators
> welcomed into the United States or released from local jails under
> the previous administration and by local governments that offer
> illegal aliens sanctuary. During a recent operation over 1,400
> criminal aliens
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> arrested in just three weeks in Massachusetts, a state that has long
> offered illegal immigrants sanctuary and forbids local law
> enforcement agencies from assisting or cooperating with federal
> immigration authorities. More than 600 of the migrants arrested had
> significant criminal convictions or criminal charges for crimes
> committed in the U.S. or are known foreign fugitives. Some are
> members of the famously violent Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13), Tren de
> Aragua and 18th Street gangs.

> In Houston thousands of criminal aliens have been apprehended by
> Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) In the last few months in
> separate operations, ridding Texas’s largest city of a multitude
> of violent gang members, convicted murderers, child predators, and
> other egregious criminals. In the most recent Houston sting, ICE
> arrested more than 1,500 criminal aliens
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> including gang members, foreign fugitives and other serious
> offenders during a 10-day operation. The 1,505 arrests in just 10
> days nearly doubled the number of apprehensions made by the ICE
> Houston Field Office during two separate operations earlier in the
> year that caught 822 and 543 criminal aliens. Offenders include
> sexual predators, gang members, aggravated felons, burglars and over
> 140 guilty of driving while intoxicated.

Until next week,



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