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PRAYERS FOR PRESIDENT TRUMP AND THE FIRST LADY

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Like me and my family, I’m sure you’re praying for the speedy
and full recovery of President Trump and First Lady Melania Trump from
the coronavirus. As I write, the President is being transported to
Walter Reed National Military Medical Center where he reportedly will
be able to work as he receives world-class treatment. Please also pray
for the entire Trump family and affected White House staff. And, of
course, pray for our country, which faces yet another trial as our
President faces this health challenge.

PA COUNTIES ADMIT THEY GAVE INCORRECT VOTER ROLL INFORMATION TO THE
FEDS

Very often the real story lies behind the curtain. While the country
watched the presidential debate, we were busy fighting for clean voter
rolls in Pennsylvania and other states. Clean voter rolls are a
foundation of honest elections.
We’ve now learned that the State of Pennsylvania and three
Pennsylvania counties admitted they reported incorrect information to
a federal agency concerning the removal of ineligible voters from
their voter rolls. In April, we filed a lawsuit against Pennsylvania
and three of its counties for failing to make reasonable efforts to
remove ineligible voters from their rolls, as required by the federal
National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA) (_Judicial Watch v.
Pennsylvania, et al
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(No. 1:02-at-06000)).

Federal regulations require Pennsylvania to certify to the federal
Election Assistance Commission (EAC) the number of voter registrations
removed from the rolls under the NVRA because the voter has moved out
of state. According to data
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the State
certified to the EAC in the most recent two-year reporting period:

* Bucks County, with about 457,000 registrations, removed a total of
eight names under the relevant NVRA procedures;
* Chester County, with about 357,000 registrations, removed five
names under those procedures; and
* Delaware County, with about 403,000 registrations, removed four
names under those procedures.

In recent court filings, Pennsylvania admitted it had certified
incorrect data to the EAC. The State alleged unverified, revised
figures for Bucks, Chester, and Delaware counties. Those three
counties also alleged their own unverified, revised figures, which
differed, however, from those provided by the State. The new numbers
alleged by the State and its counties are still a small fraction of
the voter names likely inactive, according to our analysis provided to
the court. We contend that, “even if these numbers are accurate,
which we do not concede, they would still be removing too few old
registrations.”

In its revised filings, the State also conceded that eighteen other
Pennsylvania counties—which together contain about one quarter of
Pennsylvania’s registered voters—had removed a combined total of
_fifteen_ names under the relevant NVRA procedures in the most recent
two-year reporting period.

In its continuing efforts to force states and counties across the
nation to comply with the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA
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Watch filed its opposition
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to Pennsylvania’s move to dismiss our lawsuit, which contends that
Bucks, Chester, and Delaware counties failed to conduct a reasonable
program to remove ineligible registrants from their federal voter
rolls as required under the NVRA.

The lawsuit pointed to the abnormally low number of removals under
NVRA procedures designed to identify voters who have changed
residence. The lawsuit also pointed out that the Commonwealth had over
800,000 “inactive” registrations on its voter rolls.

We compared registration data in the EAC’s report (which was
supplied to the EAC by the counties) to publicly available data from
the Census Bureau to conclude that Bucks, Chester, and Delaware
Counties had total registration rates, respectively, of 96%, 97%, and
97%. Judicial Watch noted that these numbers are high, both within
Pennsylvania and compared to the rest of the country, suggesting a
failure to remove outdated registrations.

Other Pennsylvania counties have acted to avoid being sued by us. On
January 14, 2020, CBS Pittsburgh reported
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that because of the threat of a Judicial Watch lawsuit, Allegheny
County removed 69,000 inactive voters. David Voye, Elections Manager
for the county told CBS, “I would concede that we are behind on
culling our rolls,” and that this had “been put on the
backburner.”

Pennsylvania’s voting rolls are such as mess that even Pennsylvania
can’t tell a court the details of how dirty or clean they are. The
simple solution is to follow federal law and take the necessary and
simple steps to clean up their voter rolls.
As you know, we are the national leader in enforcing federal law which
requires states to take reasonable steps to clean their voting
rolls.

In 2018, the Supreme Court upheld
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a massive voter roll clean up that resulted from our settlement of a
federal lawsuit with Ohio.

California also settled
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a similar lawsuit with us and last year began the process of removing
up to 1.5 million “inactive” names from Los Angeles County voting
rolls. Kentucky
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also began a cleanup of up to 250,00 names last year after it entered
into a consent decree to end another Judicial Watch lawsuit.

More election integrity litigation is coming next week, so stay tuned!

JUDGE REJECTS STONEWALL -- ORDERS INITIAL PRODUCTION OF FAUCI EMAILS
THIS MONTH

The Deep State has been circling the wagons around Dr. Fauci, but
that’s coming to an end – after an unnecessary delay.

A federal judge has ordered
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the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to begin producing
communications and other records of National Institute of Allergies
and Infectious Diseases Director Anthony Fauci and Deputy Director H.
Clifford Lane about the World Health Organization (WHO), China, and
the coronavirus.

U.S. District Court Judge Dabney L. Friedrich on September 22 ordered
HHS to begin producing 300 pages of potentially responsive records per
month beginning on October 21. In a September 21 court filing, HHS
said the agency could begin producing 300 pages of responsive records
to the Daily Caller News Foundation beginning on November 30, eight
months after receiving the Daily Caller’s request under the Freedom
of Information Act (FOIA). The total number of responsive records is
approximately 4200, which would push off the full release of the
records until at least 2022. HHS also alleged that Fauci must
personally review each one of his emails before they are released.

The judge’s order came in response to a FOIA suit we filed in the
U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia on behalf of the
Daily Caller News Foundation (_Daily Caller News Foundation v. U.S.
Department of Health and Human Services_
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(No. 1:20-cv-01149)).

We sued after HHS failed to respond to an April 1, 2020, FOIA request
seeking:

* Communications between Dr. Fauci and Deputy Director Lane and
World Health Organization officials concerning the novel coronavirus.
* Communications of Dr. Fauci and Deputy Director Lane concerning
WHO, WHO official Bruce Aylward, WHO Director General Tedros Anhanom,
and China.

The time period for the request is January 1, 2020 to April 1, 2020.

“People have every right under the law to see the communications
between our government agencies (including Dr. Fauci), China and the
WHO at the outset of this pandemic that has killed so many Americans
and destroyed our economy,” said Daily Caller News Foundation
President Neil Patel. “We are happy that Judge Friedrich agreed with
our position that the government should not be able to keep this
information secret. However, the fact that the document production
doesn’t have to start until over six months after our lawful request
— and that the production will not finish until 2022, is a sad joke.
It’s amazing people still wonder why the American people have lost
trust in our national institutions.”

The NIH seems to be playing politics with the Fauci emails. The FOIA
request at issue here concerns records that are likely to shed light
on the China and WHO disinformation campaign on coronavirus – the
stonewall seems calculated to undermine President Trump and protect
WHO and China.

PRESIDENT TRUMP’S SPLENDID PICK FOR THE HIGH COURT

What a brave, wonderful Supreme Court pick by President Trump!
President Trump has once again stood up for the U.S. Constitution with
his nomination of Judge Amy Coney Barrett to the Supreme Court. Judge
Barrett has a demonstrated record of applying the rule of law rather
than legislating from the bench. Her record shows that she will not
only respect but apply the U.S. Constitution as written and intended
by our Founding Fathers. And it would be a wonderful milestone that
Judge Barrett would be the first conservative woman member on the
Supreme Court. She seems to be a full spectrum conservative who is
likely to be a force on the Supreme Court for years to come.

This nomination is another great victory for constitutional government
and a blow to politicized decision-making on the Supreme Court. Most
Americans agree with Judge Barrett that the Supreme Court should apply
the law as it is written and leave the legislating to the people’s
elected representatives.

The U.S. Senate should move quickly to work with President Trump to
consider and approve Judge Barrett before Election Day. There is not
much radical liberals can do to stop this excellent Supreme Court
pick. Leftist threats of violence and court-packing should not slow
the Senate one bit. And all Americans should reject the growing
un-American campaign by the radical left to attack her family and
oppose Justice Barrett because of her religious faith. I had the
honor of attending the White House Rose Garden introduction of Judge
Coney Barrett.

Seeing her temperament, family, and learning more about her record in
only further highlighted for me that Judge Barrett cannot be confirmed
soon enough.

You should let your Senators know how you feel about the Barrett
nomination by calling 202-225-3121.

SOROS FUNDS PROSECUTOR CANDIDATE WHO IS SOFT ON CRIMINALS

George Soros is a major player in American politics – also
intervening in campaigns for offices that are vitally important to
Americans. Our _Corruption Chronicles_ blog has the latest
transparency report
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on his political activism:

Leftwing billionaire George Soros just donated $1.5 million
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to help the nation’s most populous county elect a Black Lives
Matter-endorsed prosecutor who promises to lock up fewer criminals.
The sizable contribution to former San Francisco District Attorney
George Gascon’s
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campaign for Los Angeles District Attorney is part of a broader effort
by Soros to place leftists in local prosecutors’ offices around the
country. The philanthropist has donated generously to these types of
candidates throughout California as well as in other states, including
Florida, Virginia, Illinois, Texas and New Mexico. Earlier this year,
a Soros-linked group called Missouri Justice Public Safety PAC
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gave St. Louis
prosecutor Kimberly Gardner, who criminally charged a couple for
defending their home against violent Black Lives Matter protestors,
$78,000
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Soros also helped fund Gardner’s 2016 campaign and his reelection
support has not wavered even though she was investigated for abusing
her power to pursue a bogus criminal case against a political nemesis
and fined for campaign finance violations.

Now Soros, who has long funded international and domestic movements to
advance the left’s radical agenda, is pouring money into the L.A.
County race to remove its first black district attorney, Jackie Lacey
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who is seeking a third term. Judicial
Watch has launched an investigation and this week filed a California
Public Records Act (CPRA) request for Gascon’s records,
communications, and expenditures with various Political Action
Committees behind his controversial move from San Francisco to Los
Angeles. According to a conservative news report
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social justice advocacy groups, including Black Lives Matter,
recruited Gascon to come to L.A. and he met with the co-founder and
key strategist of the Black Lives Matter global network, Patrisse
Cullors, about the move south. The same media outlet reported
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the recent $1.5 million Soros donation to Gascon this week.

Besides promising to imprison fewer criminals than L.A. County’s
current prosecutor, here is why leftists want him in charge; Gascon
helped craft two state measures, Proposition 47
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and Proposition 57
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that benefit hardcore
criminals under the auspice of “criminal justice reform.”
Proposition 47 decriminalizes drug and theft offenses by reducing them
from felonies to misdemeanors. Proposition 57 grants serious criminals
such as rapists, human traffickers, child molesters and
drive-by-shooters early release from prison. Gascon’s campaign is a
perfect example of outside special interests controlling traditionally
non-partisan races, according to the Association of Deputy District
Attorneys (ADDA), the professional group of deputy prosecutors in L.A.
County. “Special interest groups, funded by George Soros, pumped
millions of dollars into district attorney races across the county,”
the group’s president writes on its website
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“Their mission was to use Soros’s wealth to radically reshape the
criminal justice system.”

Judicial Watch has reported extensively on the multi-million-dollar
global crusade funded by Soros to further advance the left’s radical
agenda. Incredibly, American taxpayers contribute to this outrageous
cause. A few years ago Judicial Watch published an investigative
report
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on the financial and staffing nexus between Soros’ deeply
politicized Open Society Foundations (OSF) and the U.S. government.
OSF works to destabilize legitimate governments, erase national
borders, target conservative politicians, finance civil unrest,
subvert institutions of higher education and orchestrate refugee
crises for political gain. With the help of American taxpayer dollars,
Soros bolsters a radical leftwing agenda that in the U.S. has
included: promoting an open border with Mexico and fighting
immigration enforcement efforts; fomenting racial disharmony by
funding anti-capitalist racialist organizations; financing the Black
Lives Matter movement and other organizations involved in the riots in
Ferguson, Missouri; weakening the integrity of our electoral systems;
promoting taxpayer funded abortion-on-demand; advocating a
government-run health care system; opposing U.S. counterterrorism
efforts; promoting dubious transnational climate change agreements
that threaten American sovereignty and working to advance gun control
and erode Second Amendment protections.

SURGE IN ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS SMUGGLED IN TRACTOR-TRAILERS

The human flood across our southern border is a crisis, and it is
resulting in traffickers treating human beings like cattle. Our
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us on the sad scene.

As COVID-19 ravages Latin America—especially Mexico—a record
number of illegal immigrants are being smuggled into the United States
through the southern border in commercial tractor-trailers. Human
smugglers cram the migrants, mostly from Central America, in large
trailers with no ventilation, water or food for days, according to the
U.S. Border Patrol. “The tractor-trailer is the final trap of their
1,600 mile treacherous journey from Central America to the United
States,” the agency writes in a statement
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issued this month. “Migrants are exposed to these dangers by
smugglers who know the life-threatening journey will be in vain given
increased border enforcement and partnerships with affected
governments.”

The frontline Homeland Security agency says two Texas border crossings
that are typically hot spots for tractor-trailers loaded with migrants
have seen a 37% increase this fiscal year. The sectors, Rio Grande
Valley and Laredo, have intercepted more than 226 tractor-trailer
cases through August with 3,740 illegal immigrants packed in
“dangerous and life threating conditions.” Federal authorities
estimate that travel restrictions designed to stop the spread of
COVID-19 have made commercial tractor-trailers the “conveyance of
choice to smuggle large numbers of people into the United States.”
Smugglers usually charge each person between $6,000 and $12,000 to
make the life-threatening journey in a jam-packed trailer, according
to the Border Patrol. “Smugglers are unscrupulous criminals and will
stop at nothing to enrich their pockets, even if it involves locking
human beings in trailers intended for animals,” said Customs and
Border Protection Commissioner Mark A. Morgan. “They treat illegal
aliens as a commodity, inhumanely holding them captive in overcrowded
stash houses with limited access to food and water.”

Federal agents often find human remains or encounter lost migrants
abandoned by smugglers when they become sick or injured. Smuggling
operations are run by drug cartels and other criminal enterprises,
federal authorities assure. They undoubtedly increase the risk of
COVID-19 infection among illegal aliens and those charged with
processing them, the Border Patrol points out. The agency provides a
gripping video testimonial
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of a young
Central American mother who describes the horrific conditions in
tractor-trailer boxes where breathing is difficult and sexual abuse
rampant. Though her identity is protected, Homeland Security officials
say the woman is the voice of thousands of Central American migrants,
including unaccompanied children that have endured a “myriad of
atrocities,” including sexual abuse, assault and kidnapping by the
criminals they pay to bring them to the U.S.

The Border Patrol also provides a grisly photo of a livestock trailer
loaded with illegal immigrants from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador,
and Honduras. The large pickup truck pulling the trailer was stopped
at the Laredo crossing with 37 individuals locked inside “with no
means of escape.” The dehumanizing picture shows some of the
migrants’ arms hanging out of the top rails of a vehicle designed to
transport animals. Others are captured trying to peek through the thin
cracks. Two other photos capture a bust of 66 individuals jammed
inside the trailer and cabin of a big rig and another with 35 illegal
aliens. In a message to those considering a tractor-trailer odyssey
north, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) warns not to trust
human smugglers. “Do not endanger your lives and the lives of your
loved ones by embarking on the dangerous journey to the United States
in vain.” Based on the evidence gathered by his agency, Border
Patrol Chief Rodney Scott assures that smugglers “have no regard for
human life.”

The newly released stats are particularly alarming considering that
Latin America leads the world
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in COVID-19 cases, according to an international news conglomerate
that reports a surge of infections in Brazil, Mexico, Peru, Colombia
and Argentina. The United Nations calls Latin America a hotspot of the
COVID-19 pandemic
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“exacerbated by weak social protection, fragmented health systems
and profound inequalities.” Other reports describe Latin America as
a COVID-19 nightmare
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and the world’s hardest hit region. The U.S. government considers
COVID-19 risk in Mexico to be high and has issued a warning
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to
American travelers of “increased risk for severe illness.”

Securing the border will save lives – not least of those of the
illegal migrants trafficked in the most dangerous circumstances
imaginable.
Until next week,



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