Clinton Emails Back in Court

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JUDICIAL WATCH ASKS FOR FULL COURT REVIEW ON CLINTON TESTIMONY

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We still intend to interview Hillary Clinton.

We have filed a petition
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for panel rehearing and rehearing en banc in the United States Court
of Appeals for the District of Columbia concerning the deposition of
former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton in a Freedom of Information
Act (FOIA) lawsuit relevant to her government emails (_In re Hillary
Rodham Clinton and Cheryl Mills_ (No. 20-5056)).

We filed the petition after an August 31, 2020, opinion by the Court
of Appeals granted Clinton’s petition for mandamus relief, allowing
her to avoid giving sworn testimony in our lawsuit
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seeking records about the Obama administration’s public statements
regarding the 2012 terrorist attack on the U.S. consulate in Benghazi.
The lawsuit led directly
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to the disclosure of Clinton’s email use (_Judicial Watch v. U.S.
Department of State
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(No. 1:14-cv-01242))._

We argue that the appeals panel granted Clinton extraordinary relief
that was specifically denied to General Flynn by the full appeals
court. The full appeals court, in denying General Flynn mandamus
relief, ruled that he could pursue alternative remedies for relief,
such as an appeal of any adverse decision by the lower court at the
end of his criminal case. The panel treated Clinton differently:

The panel’s failure to consider Clinton’s available remedies when
it labeled her a party-litigant has, in effect, extended more rights
to Clinton than to ordinary parties, including Plaintiff, the
Government, and most recently Flynn. Rehearing and rehearing _en banc_
is necessary for this additional reason.

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It also is at odds with this Court’s recent _en banc_ decision
denying mandamus to U.S. Army Lieutenant General Michael T. Flynn
because an “adequate alternative remedy exists.” Rehearing and
rehearing _en banc_ is necessary “to secure and maintain uniformity
of the court’s decisions.”

We further argue that the ruling undermines FOIA by ignoring Supreme
Court and other precedent:

A district court may order limited discovery in FOIA cases where there
is evidence that an agency acted in bad faith. A district court also
has “broad discretion to manage the scope of discovery” in FOIA
cases. The panel nonetheless found that discovery in FOIA is limited
to “the actions of the individuals who conducted the search” for
records responsive to a request. The panel’s finding is a radical
departure from what Congress intended, the Supreme Court’s
interpretation of FOIA, and this Court’s precedent. In effect, it
eliminates any discovery into the actions of agency officials or
employees other than FOIA officers, walling off from any inquiry
officials or employees who may be less than honest with FOIA officers
or who might seek to conceal agency records from FOIA officers to
prevent their disclosure to the public, among other matters plainly
relevant to an agency’s good faith in responding to FOIA requests.

We highlight the urgency of the issue by pointing to renewed efforts
by the State Department and Justice Department to use the appellate
court’s decision to try to shut down all other discovery into
Clinton’s email use.

The decision to give Hillary Clinton special protection from having to
testify about her emails undermines the rule of law and would
eviscerate FOIA. The court should explain to the American people why
it would protect Hillary Clinton while denying similar relief to
General Flynn.

Here’s the background.

On December 6, 2018, U.S. District Court Judge Royce Lamberth ordered
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that former United States Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice
and senior Obama State Department officials, lawyers and Clinton aides
be deposed or answer written questions under oath in the lawsuit.
Judge Lamberth called Clinton’s email system “one of the gravest
modern offenses to government transparency.”

In May 2019, Rice admitted
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under oath that she emailed Clinton on Clinton’s personal email
account and “in rare instances” received emails related to U.S.
government business on her own personal email account. Rice claimed
she “took steps” to ensure that official emails were “also on
her government email account” but did not identify those steps.
Rice’s 2019 sworn answers are available here
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On March 2, 2020, Judge Lamberth ordered
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Judicial Watch us depose Clinton and Mills, under oath, regarding
Clinton’s email system and the existence of records about the
Benghazi attack. Clinton and Mills filed an emergency mandamus appeal
to avoid testifying.

We’re not giving up on this.

VOTER REGISTRATION IN 353 COUNTIES IN 29 STATES EXCEEDS 100%

In 2018 the Supreme Court upheld a voter-roll cleanup program that
resulted from our settlement of a federal lawsuit with Ohio
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California settled
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a NVRA lawsuit with us and last year began the process of removing up
to 1.6 million inactive names from Los Angeles County’s voter rolls.
Kentucky
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also began a cleanup of hundreds of thousands of old registrations
last year after it entered into a consent decree to end another
Judicial Watch lawsuit. In September 2020, we sued Illinois
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for refusing to disclose voter roll data in violation of Federal law.

So we’ve been busy and effective. Unfortunately, the problem
persists.

Our newly released study
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reveals that 353 U.S. counties had 1.8 million more registered voters
than eligible voting-age citizens. In other words, the registration
rates of those counties exceeded 100% of eligible voters. The study
finds eight states showing statewide registration rates exceeding
100%: Alaska, Colorado, Maine, Maryland, Michigan, New Jersey, Rhode
Island, and Vermont.

The September 2020 study collected the most recent registration data
posted online by the states themselves. This data was then compared to
the Census Bureau’s most recent five-year population estimates,
gathered by the American Community Survey (ACS) from 2014 through
2018. ACS surveys are sent to 3.5 million addresses each month, and
its five-year estimates are considered to be the most reliable
estimates outside of the decennial census.

Our latest study is necessarily limited to 37 states that post regular
updates to their registration data. Certain state voter registration
lists may also be even larger than reported, because they may have
excluded “inactive voters” from their data. Inactive voters, who
may have moved elsewhere, are still registered voters and may show up
and vote on election day and/or request mail-in ballots.

We rely on our voter registration studies to warn states that they are
failing to comply with the requirements of the National Voter
Registration Act of 1993, which requires states to make reasonable
efforts to clean their voter rolls. We can and have sued to enforce
compliance with federal law.

Earlier this month, we sued Colorado
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over
its failure to comply with the National Voter Registration Act. In our
new study, 42 Colorado counties—or two thirds of the state’s
counties—had registration rates exceeding 100%. Particular data from
the state confirms this general picture. As the complaint explains, a
month-by-month comparison of the ACS’s five-year survey period with
Colorado’s own registration numbers for the exact same months shows
that large proportions of Colorado’s counties have registration
rates exceeding 100%. Earlier this year, we sued Pennsylvania
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and
North Carolina
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for failing to make reasonable efforts to remove ineligible voters
from their rolls as required by federal law. The lawsuits allege that
the two states have nearly 2 million inactive names on their voter
registration rolls. We also sued Illinois for refusing to disclose
voter roll data in violation of Federal law.

Our study updates the results of a similar study from last year. In
August 2019 we analyzed registration data that states reported to the
federal Election Assistance Commission (EAC) in response to a survey
conducted every two years on how states maintain their voter rolls.
That registration data was compared to the then-most-recent ACS
five-year survey from 2013 through 2017. The study showed that 378
U.S. counties had registration rates exceeding 100%.
The new study shows 1.8 million excess, or ‘ghost’ voters in 353
counties across 29 states. The data highlights the recklessness of
mailing blindly ballots and ballot applications to voter registration
lists. Dirty voting rolls can mean dirty elections.

STATES AND COUNTIES WITH REGISTRATION RATES EXCEEDING 100%

(* MEANS NO SEPARATE REPORTING OF INACTIVE REGISTRATIONS)

ALABAMA: Lowndes County (130%); Macon County (114%); Wilcox (113%);
Perry County (111%); Madison County (109%); Hale County (108%);
Marengo County (108%); Baldwin (108%); Greene County (107%);
Washington County (106%); Dallas County (106%); Choctaw County (105%);
Conecuh County (105%); Randolph County (104%); Shelby County (104%);
Lamar County (103%); Autauga County (103%); Clarke County (103%);
Henry County (103%); Monroe County (102%); Colbert County (101%);
Jefferson County (101%); Lee County (100%); Houston County (100%);
Crenshaw County (100%)

*ALASKA: Statewide (111%)

ARIZONA: Santa Cruz County (107%); Apache County (106%)

*ARKANSAS: Newton County (103%)

COLORADO: STATEWIDE (102%); San Juan County (158%); Dolores County
(127%); Jackson County (125%); Mineral County (119%); Ouray County
(119%); Phillips County (116%); Douglas County (116%); Broomfield
County (115%); Elbert County (113%); Custer County (112%); Gilpin
County (111%); Park County (111%); Archuleta County (111%); Cheyenne
County (111%); Clear Creek County (110%); Teller County (108%); Grand
County (107%); La Plata County (106%); Summit County (106%); Baca
County (106%); Pitkin County (106%); San Miguel County (106%); Routt
County (106%); Hinsdale County (105%); Garfield County (105%);
Gunnison County (105%); Sedgwick County (104%); Eagle County (104%);
Larimer County (104%); Weld County (104%); Boulder County (103%);
Costilla County (103%); Chaffee County (103%); Kiowa County (103%);
Denver County (103%); Huerfano County (102%); Montezuma County (102%);
Moffat County (102%); Arapahoe County (102%); Jefferson County (101%);
Las Animas County (101%); Mesa County (100%.

*FLORIDA: St. Johns County (112%); Nassau County (109%); Walton County
(108%); Santa Rosa County (108%); Flagler County (104%); Clay County
(103%); Indian River County (101%); Osceola County (100%)

*GEORGIA: Bryan County (118%); Forsyth County (114%); Dawson County
(113%); Oconee County (111%); Fayette County (111%); Fulton County
(109%); Cherokee County (109%); Jackson County (107%); Henry County
(106%); Lee County (106%); Morgan County (105%); Clayton County
(105%); DeKalb County (105%); Gwinnett County (104%); Greene County
(104%); Cobb County (104%); Effingham County (103%); Walton County
(102%); Rockdale County (102%); Barrow County (101%); Douglas County
(101%); Newton County (100%); Hall County (100%)

*INDIANA: Hamilton County (113%); Boone County (112%); Clark County
(105%); Floyd County (103%); Hancock County (103%); Ohio County
(102%); Hendricks County (102%); Lake County (101%); Warrick County
(100%); Dearborn County (100%)
Iowa: Dallas County (115%); Johnson County (104%); Lyon County (103%);
Dickinson County (103%); Scott County (102%); Madison County (101%);
Warren County (100%)

*KANSAS: Johnson County (105%)
Maine: Statewide (101%); Cumberland County (110%); Sagadahoc County
(107%); Hancock County (105%); Lincoln County (104%); Waldo County
(102%); York County (100%)

MARYLAND: Statewide (102%); Montgomery County (113%); Howard County
(111%); Frederick County (110%); Charles County (108%); Prince
George’s County (106%); Queen Anne’s County (104%); Calvert County
(104%); Harford County (104%); Worcester County (103%); Carroll County
(103%); Anne Arundel County (102%); Talbot County (100%)

*MASSACHUSETTS: Dukes County (120%); Nantucket County (115%);
Barnstable County (103%)

*MICHIGAN: STATEWIDE (105%); Leelanau County (119%); Otsego County
(118%); Antrim County (116%); Kalkaska County (115%); Emmet County
(114%); Berrien County (114%); Keweenaw County (114%); Benzie County
(113%); Washtenaw County (113%); Mackinac County (112%); Dickinson
County (112%); Roscommon County (112%); Charlevoix County (112%);
Grand Traverse County (111%); Oakland County (110%); Iron County
(110%); Monroe County (109%); Genesee County (109%); Ontonagon County
(109%); Gogebic County (109%); Livingston County (109%); Alcona County
(108%); Cass County (108%); Allegan County (108%); Oceana County
(107%); Midland County (107%); Kent County (107%); Montmorency County
(107%); Van Buren County (107%); Wayne County (107%); Schoolcraft
County (107%); Mason County (107%); Oscoda County (107%); Iosco County
(107%); Wexford County (106%); Presque Isle County (106%); Delta
County (106%); Alpena County (106%); St Clair County (106%); Cheboygan
County (105%); Newaygo County (105%); Barry County (105%); Gladwin
County (105%); Menominee County (105%); Crawford County (105%);
Muskegon County (105%); Kalamazoo County (104%); St. Joseph County
(104%); Ottawa County (103%); Clinton County (103%); Saginaw County
(103%); Manistee County (103%); Lapeer County (103%); Calhoun County
(103%); Ogemaw County (103%); Macomb County (103%); Missaukee County
(102%); Eaton County (102%); Shiawassee County (102%); Huron County
(102%); Lenawee County (101%); Branch County (101%); Osceola County
(101%); Clare County (100%); Arenac County (100%); Bay County (100%);
Lake County (100%)

*MISSOURI: St. Louis County (102%)

*MONTANA: Petroleum County (113%); Gallatin County (103%); Park County
(103%); Madison County (102%); Broadwater County (102%)

*NEBRASKA: Arthur County (108%); Loup County (103%); Keya Paha County
(102%); Banner County (100%); McPherson County (100%)

NEVADA: Storey County (108%); Douglas County (105%); Nye County (101%)
*New Jersey: Statewide (102%); Somerset County (110%); Hunterdon
County (108%); Morris County (107%); Essex County (106%); Monmouth
County (104%); Bergen County (103%); Middlesex County (103%); Union
County (103%); Camden County (102%); Warren County (102%); Atlantic
County (102%); Sussex County (101%); Salem County (101%); Hudson
County (100%); Gloucester County (100%)

*NEW MEXICO: Harding County (177%); Los Alamos County (110%)

NEW YORK: Hamilton County (118%); Nassau County (109%); New York
(103%); Rockland County (101%); Suffolk County (100%)

*OREGON: Sherman County (107%); Crook County (107%); Deschutes County
(105%); Wallowa County (103%); Hood River County (103%); Columbia
County (102%); Linn County (101%); Polk County (100%); Tillamook
County (100%)

RHODE ISLAND: STATEWIDE (101%); Bristol County (104%); Washington
County (103%); Providence County (101%)

*SOUTH CAROLINA: Jasper County (103%)

SOUTH DAKOTA: Hanson County (171%); Union County (120%); Jones County
(116%); Sully County (115%); Lincoln County (113%); Custer County
(110%); Fall River County (108%); Pennington County (106%); Harding
County (105%); Minnehaha County (104%); Potter County (104%); Campbell
County (103%); McPherson County (101%); Hamlin County (101%); Stanley
County (101%); Lake County (100%); Perkins County (100%)

TENNESSEE: Williamson County (110%); Moore County (101%); Polk County
(101%)

TEXAS: Loving County (187%); Presidio County (149%); McMullen County
(147%); Brooks County (117%); Roberts County (116%); Sterling County
(115%); Zapata County (115%); Maverick County (112%); Starr County
(110%); King County (110%); Chambers County (109%); Irion County
(108%); Jim Hogg County (107%); Polk County (107%); Comal County
(106%); Oldham County (104%); Culberson County (104%); Kendall County
(103%); Dimmit County (103%); Rockwall County (102%); Motley County
(102%); Parker County (102%); Hudspeth County (101%); Travis County
(101%); Fort Bend County (101%); Kent County (101%); Webb County
(101%); Mason County (101%); Crockett County (101%); Waller County
(100%); Gillespie County (100%); Duval County (100%); Brewster County
(100%)

VERMONT: STATEWIDE (100%)

VIRGINIA: Loudoun County (116%); Falls Church City (114%); Fairfax
City (109%); Goochland County (108%); Arlington County (106%); Fairfax
County (106%); Prince William County (105%); James City County (105%);
Alexandria City (105%); Fauquier County (105%); Isle of Wight County
(104%); Chesterfield County (104%); Surry County (103%); Hanover
County (103%); New Kent County (103%); Clarke County (103%); King
William County (102%); Spotsylvania County (102%); Rappahannock County
(102%); Albemarle County (101%); Stafford County (101%); Northampton
County (101%); Poquoson City (100%); Frederick County (100%)

WASHINGTON: Garfield County (119%); Pend Oreille County (112%);
Jefferson County (111%); San Juan County (108%); Wahkiakum County
(108%); Stevens County (103%); Pacific County (103%); Clark County
(102%); Island County (102%); Klickitat County (102%); Thurston County
(102%); Lincoln County (101%); Whatcom County (100%); Asotin County
(100%)

*WEST VIRGINIA: Mingo County (104%); Wyoming County (103%); McDowell
County (102%); Brooke County (102%); Hancock County (100%)

JUDICIAL WATCH IS JOINING _THE OBAMAGATE MOVIE _AS EXECUTIVE PRODUCERS

Don’t expect to hear “Lights, camera, action!” in our
Washington, DC hallways any time soon, but we are producing an
important movie. It is another way to convey the details of the
biggest political scandal in our nation’s history.

We are partnering with the Unreported Story Society (Ann McElhinney
and Phelim McAleer) as executive producers of The ObamaGate Movie, the
new film starring Dean Cain
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(_Superman_) and Kristy Swanson
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(_Buffy the Vampire Slayer_), which is set to premiere on YouTube on
October 20 at 9 pm ET and tells the story of the hoax that was the
Trump/Russia investigation.

According to the filmmakers, _ObamaGate_ “exposes the Deep State
plot to undermine the Trump candidacy and presidency,” and it
reveals the lies behind the fake Russia collusion narrative. The
_ObamaGate_ Movie is a verbatim play that was filmed “Hamilton
style” in Los Angeles on the Comedy Central stage at the Hudson
Theater.

Our investigative work that has brought to light some of the most
critical aspects of the “Russia hoax” investigation and the
ongoing corruption at the DOJ and the FBI.

I am excited to see some of the government records uncovered by
Judicial Watch turned into a film. We have been working for years to
expose the rampant corruption that has plagued the DOJ and the FBI.
It’s exciting to see these discoveries turned into an entertaining
and educational film that is easy to watch and understand – so even
more Americans can see the despicable and deceptive ObamaGate plot to
undermine President Trump and our Republic.

Phelim McAleer, co-writer of_ ObamaGate_ praised us for our work
exposing government corruption. “Without Judicial Watch, the
American people would still be largely in the dark about the ObamaGate
abuse of President Trump and other innocent Americans,” McAleer
said. “Since the film is entirely verbatim, it’s based off much of
the investigative work uncovered by Judicial Watch and other
investigators. We are so excited to work with Judicial Watch and help
as many people as possible learn about this critical story.”

_ObamaGate_ is a verbatim play that examines the truth behind the
“Russia collusion” hoax. The film’s dialogue is taken
word-for-word from text messages, emails, and testimony of the key
figures behind the hoaxes. Dean Cain (_Lois & Clark, Gosnell_) and
Kristy Swanson (_Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Psych_) reprise their roles
in ObamaGate as lovers Peter Strzok and Lisa Page. The Strzok-Page
texts have revealed the depth of the plot against the president. Cain
and Swanson are joined by John James
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(Dynasty), who plays former FBI
Director James Comey.

The movie is being released following several books and movies
portraying the FBI and DOJ operatives as heroic. Showtime has released
the big budget, pro-Comey mini-series called “_The Comey Rule_
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and FBI lovebird Peter Strzok published his self-aggrandizing memoir,
which has been accompanied by mostly softball media interviews and
reviews from the mainstream media.

The _ObamaGate_ film will be directed by veteran director Kiff Scholl
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The film is co-written by
Phelim McAleer
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and Brian
Godawa
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Godawa is a veteran screenwriter with credits including “_To End All
Wars_” starring Keifer Sutherland.

The film was created through crowdfunding, and so far the campaign has
raised over $150,000 to make the film. More information and the
crowdfunding campaign can be accessed at ObamagateMovie.com
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The trailer for _The ObamaGate Movie_ is available on YouTube now:
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BALLOT UPDATE: WE CLEAN UP DIRTY VOTER ROLLS

As we all recognize, the Left has big plans to “win” the election,
no holds barred. We’re counter attacking with a grassroots effort to
make sure voter rolls are clean. This is the foundation for
trustworthy elections.

As Micah Morrison describes
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in his_ Investigative Bulletin_, this is a tedious, in the weeds
effort, but we aren’t deterred.

Back in January, Judicial Watch had some big news. Our investigation
of voter rolls nationwide turned up 2.5 million extra names. Our
analysis of data from the U.S Election Assistance Commission found 378
counties that had a combined 2.5 million more voter registrations than
citizens old enough to vote. We warned five states—California,
Pennsylvania, North Carolina, Colorado, and Virginia—that we
intended to sue
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unless they cleaned up their voter rolls.

Judicial Watch is the national leader in election integrity education
and litigation. We’re cleaning up dirty voter rolls across the
nation. Under the National Voter Registration Act, states are required
to remove “inactive voters” from registration rolls if they do not
respond to an address confirmation notice and then fail to vote in the
next two general federal elections. Many “inactive voters” in fact
have died or moved to a new location.

It’s not news that ballot disputes are bitter partisan affairs,
filled with wild attacks and misinformation. But Judicial Watch
President Tom Fitton insists that voting abuse cases should not be a
Right-Left death match. “If you’re a Leftist Democrat trying to
take on an incumbent in a corrupt jurisdiction, voter fraud can keep
you from gaining traction as well,” he says. Judicial Watch recently
investigated such a case in New Jersey
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In April, we sued Pennsylvania for failing to make reasonable efforts
to remove ineligible voters from their rolls, as required by the NVRA.
Earlier this month, Pennsylvania offered a limited capitulation: it
admitted it had reported incorrect information
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to a federal agency on the removal of ineligible voters.

The Pennsylvania numbers were pathetic. The state initially claimed
that in one county of 457,000 registrants, it had found only eight
inactive names eligible for removal under the NVRA; in another county
of 357,000 registrants, five such names had been removed; in a third
county of 403,000 registrants, four such names removed. The state has
since revised its numbers, but even the new numbers are too small.
Pennsylvania now admits that in eighteen other counties—which
together contain twenty-five percent of the entire state’s
registered voters—it removed a grand total of fifteen inactive,
ineligible voters.

Judicial Watch is keeping the pressure on Pennsylvania.
“Pennsylvania’s voting rolls are such a mess that even
Pennsylvania can’t tell a court the details of how dirty or clean
they are,” Tom says. “The simple solution is to follow the federal
law and take the necessary and simple steps to clean up their voter
rolls.”

We’ve also gone to court in Colorado to clean up voter rolls.
Authoritative studies in recent years show that a majority of Colorado
counties have registration rates that exceed 100% of the voting-age
population. (Read more about the studies in the Judicial Watch
lawsuit, here
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In fact, Colorado leads the nation in percentages of counties with
more than 100% of eligible voters registered to vote.

Our lawsuit charges “an ongoing, systemic problem with Colorado’s
voter list maintenance obligations” and asks the court to order the
state to “implement a general program that makes a reasonable effort
to remove the registration of ineligible registrants” from voter
rolls.

In April, we filed suit against North Carolina for the same
reason—large numbers of ineligible voters on the state voter rolls.
Our lawsuit
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argues that North Carolina has about one million inactive voters on
its rolls. That’s about seventeen percent of the state’s total
voter registration.

The state has a terrible voter registration record, one of the worst
in the nation. In nineteen North Carolina counties, twenty percent of
the registrations were inactive. In three other counties, twenty-five
percent or more were inactive.

We told the court that North Carolina failed to clean up its voter
rolls. In addition, we say, the state violated the National Voter
Registration Act by not providing Judicial Watch with public records
related to registration numbers.

Public records are something we know a lot about. Judicial Watch is
famously at the forefront of freedom of information efforts around the
nation. Less well known, but no less important, are our efforts in
election integrity education and litigation. For more on that, take a
look at this discussion between Tom Fitton and Judicial Watch Election
Integrity Initiative Director Robert Popper on cleaning up dirty voter
rolls
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FEDERAL AGENCY UNDER FIRE FOR PROMOTING ‘WHITE LIVES MATTER
IDEOLOGY’

Our federal bureaucracies are infested with Leftist political
enthusiasts. These are on full display in your Department of Interior.
Our _Corruption Chronicles_ blog has the details
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A federal agency that celebrates everything from Hispanic to African
American, Asian and LGBTQ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and
queer) culture is under fire for recently observing European Heritage
because it supposedly promotes white nationalism. With 70,000
employees and a whopping $12.8 billion
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annual budget the Department of the Interior (DOI) prides itself on
being inclusive and diverse. The agency manages the nation’s public
lands and minerals, national parks, and wildlife refuges. It also
upholds federal trust responsibilities to Indian tribes and Native
Alaskans and is responsible for the conservation of endangered species
and the environment.

DOI regularly observes the country’s diverse cultures by publishing
special edition magazines and holding festive events. Recent DOI
publications have focused on LGBTQ and Asian Americans. In February it
was National African American History Month
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September was Hispanic Heritage Month
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and November
will be Native American Heritage Month
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So why the bruhaha over European Heritage, which was highlighted in
the August edition of a DOI publication known as “Connections?”
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Some employees believe observing European Heritage is
“insensitive” because it improperly endorses “ideals related to
white pride,” according to a story
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published in a digital news site that covers government. DOI workers
are “annoyed and angry” that the agency recognized Europeans
because it promotes a “white lives matter ideology,” an employee
says in the article. The DOI staffer says it is especially troubling
“during a time of civil awakening.” Presumably this refers to the
radical, leftist Black Lives Matter (BLM) movement.

Of interesting note is that the “offensive” 20-page European
Heritage issue features a congratulatory message
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to the magazine staff from the DOI’s Deputy Assistant Secretary for
Administrative Services, a black woman named Jacqueline M. Jones, a
veteran government executive who oversees five divisions at the
agency. She shares a note from an administrative judge thanking the
agency for its commitment to diversity in the workplace. Jones, whose
photo appears next to the message, thanks the magazine staff for
“connecting with us through these monthly celebrations of diversity,
inclusion and equity. We truly are stronger together!” Below her
signature is the publication’s table of contents, which includes
sections on the Statue of Liberty, Ellis Island, Wales, Germany, the
European Union, Russia, and Voices for Change. One section is
dedicated to Martin Luther King and highlights his famous 1963 “I
Have a Dream” speech. It includes the entire speech, a half-page
illustration of King and a separate color photo of the civil rights
leader waving to a massive crowd during the March on Washington.

The section dedicated to King evidently did not upset any DOI
employees, but some found the portion titled “National Parks with
European Connections” offensive because they feel it was insensitive
to Native Americans. The magazine states that Native Americans were
the largest indigenous group in Florida and Georgia at the time of
European contact, occupying about 19,200 square miles with an
estimated population of 200,000. According to the news article
critical of the publication, a DOI employee viewed this as
“suggesting it only served to highlight that those populations have
been almost entirely wiped out.” Another agency worker said the
entire edition celebrating European Heritage was “tone deaf,” even
though it features a renowned civil rights icon and includes diverse
cultural experiences of DOI veterans such as a National Park Service
(NPS) employee in Florida who writes fondly about exposure to Cuban,
Guatemalan, Mexican, British and Irish cultures in the Sunshine State.


In a desperate effort to justify criticism of DOI’s European
Heritage magazine, the article states that the “Southern Poverty Law
Center has flagged
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various organizations that celebrate European heritage as associated
with white nationalism.” The reality is that the SPLC is a radical
leftist nonprofit that lists conservative organizations that disagree
with it on social issues on a catalog of “hate groups.” Its famous
“hate map” helped a gunman commit an act of terrorism against a
conservative nonprofit in 2012. The Virginia man, Floyd Lee Corkins,
was sentenced to 25 years in prison though prosecutors recommended 45
because his crime was an act of terrorism. Even the Obama Department
of Justice (DOJ) officially reprimanded the SPLC for its hateful
attacks, according to documents
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obtained by Judicial Watch in 2017. The rebuke was a vindication for
groups targeted by the SPLC’s witch hunts and was especially
impactful because the Obama administration was tight with the SPLC and
even hired the controversial nonprofit to conduct diversity training
for the government.

You have to wonder why a federal bureaucracy is spending our tax
dollars on celebrating anything. Shouldn’t it be about its work?

YOU’LL WANT TO GET THE NEW JUDICIAL WATCH BOOK:_ A REPUBLIC UNDER
ASSAULT_

In this new book
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subtitled
“The Left’s Ongoing Attack on American Freedom,” I explain how
the Radical Left and the Deep State are trying to destroy the Trump
presidency. The book goes on sale October 20.

My first two _New York Times_ bestselling books, _The Corruption
Chronicles_ and _Clean House_, exposed the hypocrisy and corruption of
Obama’s two terms. Now, I identify the four major forces posing a
continued threat to American democracy.

DEEP STATE EFFORTS TO DESTROY THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY: How the Democratic
National Committee and the Clinton campaign paid for the fraudulent
anti-Trump “Steele Dossier,” and how it was used by the Obama FBI
and DOJ to dupe the FISA Court to allow it to spy on the Trump
presidential campaign AND President Trump. These and more dirty
secrets of Obamagate and the impeachment coup attempt are exposed.

HILLARY CLINTON EMAIL SCANDAL: How the Clinton team and senior
officials at the Obama State Department conspired to cover up Hillary
Clinton’s secret email system—and shocking revelations that tie
the Obama White House to the cover-up!

VOTER FRAUD: How Soros-funded groups attack states that seek to
protect clean elections by challenging voter ID laws, and how the Left
is cynically peddling COVID-19 crisis electoral “reforms,” such as
mail-in voting, which could increase voter fraud and election chaos.
And shocking numbers about dirty voting rolls across the nation!

ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION: How deadly illegal “sanctuary” policies are
exploding across America, and how our nation’s sovereignty has been
under assault by radical open-border advocates.
Subversive Deep State collaborators with ties to the Clinton and Obama
machines not only launched countless—often illegal—operations to
stop and then remove Trump, but, even more alarmingly, they are
working to transform the United States into something truly
unrecognizable to all who believe in liberty and the rule of law.

_Today_ one of their main targets is President Donald J. Trump.

_Tomorrow _it could be you and anyone who believes in the US
Constitution, believes the United States must have clearly defined and
protected borders, believes in the need for a strong military,
believes in the value of hard work and faith, and believes in the rule
of law and American exceptionalism.

Mark your calendar to join me for a virtual signing on October 20 at 3
pm ET. It will be broadcast on:

YouTube
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Facebook
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and
Twitter
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You can preorder a signed copy, as well as ask a question here:
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Until next week …



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