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JUDICIAL WATCH FILES ETHICS COMPLAINT AGAINST MAXINE WATERS OVER
INCITEMENT AND JURY INTIMIDATION

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You may recall that in June 2018, we filed a House ethics complaint
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against Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA) for inciting violence and assaults
on former-President Trump’s cabinet.
Well, she’s at it again, this time she encouraged violence and
attempted to intimidate the jury in the trial of Derek Chauvin.

We filed a complaint
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with the chairman of the House Office of Congressional Ethics against
Waters for violating House ethics rules with these remarks. Our
complaint argues that Rep. Waters encouraged violence by urging
protestors to “get more confrontational” if Chauvin is found not
guilty. She told the crowd:

Well, we’ve got to stay on the street and we’ve got to get more
active, we’ve got to get more confrontational. We’ve got to make
sure that they know that we mean business.
We noted that Waters statements seem to be in violation of House
ethics rules that require members to conduct themselves “at all
times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the House.”

In the complaint to the Office of Congressional Ethics chairman, I
wrote:

Ms. Waters took an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the
United States, which includes the rights accorded to Officer Chauvin
to a fair and impartial trial by a jury of his peers and to due
process. Ms. Waters’ inflammatory comments that pressure the jury,
while encouraging rioters already engaged in rampant destruction of
property and attacks on police officers, to “get more
confrontational” are irresponsible and dangerous incitement by a
Member of Congress.

House Rule 23, Clause 1, of the Code of Official Conduct of the Rules
of the House of Representatives states: “A Member, Delegate,
Resident Commissioner, officer, or employee of the House shall conduct
himself at all times in a manner that shall reflect creditably on the
House.”

Ms. Waters’ conduct surely does not reflect creditably on the House.
By encouraging violence in response to a “guilty” jury verdict,
she seeks to undermine the Constitution’s guarantees and
protections, and fosters the breakdown of civil society. Such
dangerous and reckless rhetoric demands investigation.

More disturbingly still, this behavior by Rep. Waters represents a
pattern of conduct. In June 2018, Ms. Waters exhorted protesters to
form “crowds” to “push back” on President Trump’s cabinet
members, saying, “If you see anybody from that Cabinet in a
restaurant, in a department store, at a gasoline station, you get out
and you create a crowd and you push back on them! And you tell them
that they are not welcome, anymore, anywhere.”

That reprehensible conduct prompted Judicial Watch to file an earlier
complaint with OCE, which has been inexcusably ignored.

Rep. Maxine Waters’ comments, in the least, fall under the expansive
standard for “incitement” set by the House in its snap impeachment
proceedings against President Trump.

Judicial Watch calls upon the Office of Congressional Ethics to launch
an investigation into Ms. Waters’ comments immediately.
Waters not only incited violence. She has compromised the legal system
by intimidating the jury in the trial of Derek Chauvin. Maxine Waters
is a repeat offender, and it is urgent that the House Ethics Committee
quickly acts to hold her accountable. You can let your congressman
know what you think about Waters’ behavior by contacting them
through the U.S. Capitol switchboard at 202-225-3121.

FEDERAL COURT HEARD SET FOR HIGH SCHOOL COACH FIRED OVER CRITICAL RACE
THEORY

A court hearing will be held on April 26 regarding the federal civil
rights lawsuit we filed on behalf of a Massachusetts father who was
fired from his position as high school football coach after raising
concerns over Black Lives Matter/Critical Race Theory being taught in
his daughter’s seventh-grade ancient history class.

The hearing will be via video conference on Monday, April 26, 2021, at
3:15 pm ET.

We filed the lawsuit on behalf of David Flynn, the father of two
Dedham Public School students. He was removed from his position as
head high school football coach after exercising his right as a
citizen to raise concerns about his daughter’s seventh-grade history
class curriculum being changed to include biased coursework on
politics, race, gender equality, and diversity (_Flynn v. Forrest et
al._
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(No. 21-cv-10256)).

Our suit details that in September 2020, Flynn’s daughter’s
seventh-grade history class, which was listed as “World Geography
and Ancient History I,” was taught issues of race, gender,
stereotypes, prejudices, discrimination, and politics. The lawsuit
explains:

In one assignment, Flynn’s daughter was asked to consider various
“risk factors” and “mitigating factors” that two people –
one identified as “white” and the other identified as “black”
– purportedly might use to assess each other on a city street.
Included among the various factors were skin color, gender, age,
physical appearance, and attire. “Black,” “aggressive body
language” and “wrong neighborhood” were among the “risk
factors” purportedly assessed by the person identified as
“white.” “White” and “Police officer” were among the
“risk factors” purportedly assessed by the person identified as
“black.”
Concerned about the abrupt change in curriculum, Flynn and his wife
contacted the history teacher and principal of the school – then
later Superintendent Michael J. Welch and three members of the Dedham
School Committee. On more than one occasion the Flynns asked for
assistance in resolving the issues with the curriculum. Ultimately, in
October 2020, the Flynns removed their children from school. The
Flynns’ list of concerns included:

* Dedham Public Schools changed the curriculum of the seventh-grade
history class without notifying parents or having a course description
and syllabus available for parents to review
* The new seventh-grade history class curriculum containing
coursework on politics, race, gender equality, and diversity that were
not suitable for twelve- and thirteen-year-olds;
* The seventh-grade history teacher not teaching topics
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of
politics, race, gender equality, and diversity objectively;
* The seventh-grade history teacher using a cartoon character of
herself wearing a t-shirt supporting a controversial political
movement
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and
* The seventh-grade history teacher using class materials
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that labeled all police officers as risks to all black people and all
black males as risks to white people.

In January 2021, Flynn, who had been the head football coach at
Dedham High School (DHS) since 2011, was called into a meeting with
Welch as well as the DHS principal and athletic director. At the
meeting, Welch handed Flynn one of the emails he had written to the
Dedham School Committee members and informed him that one of the
committee members asked Welch, “What are we going to do about
this?” At the end of the meeting Flynn was told that they “were
going in a different direction” with the football program. Minutes
later, the superintendent, high school principal, and athletic
director released a public statement, stating that Flynn was removed
as head football coach because he “expressed significant
philosophical differences with the direction, goals, and values of the
school district.”

We are asking that the court award damages to Flynn and that a jury
trial be held. We are being assisted by attorney Andrew J. Couture of
Leominster, Massachusetts.

A moving video presentation regarding the case is available here
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I
encourage you to view and share. Coach Flynn is on the front lines on
a battle for our children and our country that is now taking place in
schools across the country.

STATES SAY ICE STOPS ISSUING DETAINERS FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT CONVICTS

The Biden Administration seems strangely determined to make our
country more dangerous for its citizens. Consider its latest out
Immigration and Customs Enforcement, as reported
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by our _Corruption Chronicles_ blog:

Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has long complained about
police in sanctuary cities that fail to honor its detainers, instead
releasing serious criminals in the U.S. rather than turn them over to
get deported. Now two states are suing the Homeland Security agency
for failing to issue detainer requests for convicted felons in the
country illegally, forcing local authorities to free them after
completing their sentence rather than turning them over to the feds
for removal. It seems that the tables have turned under the Biden
administration, according to the lawsuit, filed this month by
officials in Texas and Louisiana.

The states claim that ICE has reversed a Trump era policy and is not
issuing detainer requests for dangerous illegal aliens imprisoned in
their jurisdiction. “As a result, many convicted criminal aliens
have been released to society after their sentences, contrary to
Congress’s mandate that they be detained pending their removal from
the United States,” according to their complaint
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filed this month in the United States District Court for the Southern
District of Texas Victoria Division. Besides ICE, the defendants
include the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its secretary,
Alejandro Mayorkas, U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS),
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) and various officials at the
DHS agencies. The lawsuit begins by stating that “the Biden
Administration is refusing to take custody of criminal aliens despite
federal statutes requiring it to do so.” Instead, the document
reads, defendants “have issued and implemented unlawful agency
memoranda that allow criminal aliens already convicted of felony
offenses to roam free in the United States. Such aliens belong in
federal custody, as Congress required.”

Adding insult to injury, officials in the Lone Star State reveal in
the court document that the Biden administration has taken the extra
step of revoking ICE detainer requests for a multitude of illegal
immigrants convicted of felonies and serving sentences in prisons
operated by the Texas Department of Criminal Justice. Many were found
guilty in a U.S. court of serious drug offenses, including possession,
manufacturing, and sale. “President Biden’s outright refusal to
enforce the law is exacerbating an unprecedented border crisis,”
said Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton in a statement
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announcing the lawsuit. “By failing to take custody of criminal
aliens and giving no explanation for this reckless policy change, the
Biden Administration is demonstrating a blatant disregard for
Texans’ and Americans’ safety. Law and order must be immediately
upheld and enforced to ensure the safety of our communities. Dangerous
and violent illegal aliens must be removed from our communities as
required by federal law.” In 2019 Texas housed nearly 9,000
undocumented criminal aliens at a cost of more than $152 million,
according to the lawsuit.

In Louisiana ICE is not removing individuals subject to mandatory
deportation, the complaint says, causing convicted felons incarcerated
in state facilities to be released in local communities throughout the
Bayou State. Louisiana, more than any other state, has greater risk
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due to the large number of
local jails that are used to house detainees prior to removal,
according to Attorney General Jeff Landry. “The President’s
refusal to enforce the law only worsens an already dire border
crisis,” Landry said. “Law and order must prevail; dangerous and
violent criminal aliens must not be allowed to roam free in our
communities.” Both states assert that the administration is
violating binding agreements with DHS to assist in immigration
enforcement and national security missions as well the Constitution,
Immigration and Nationality Act and Administrative Procedure Act,
which require the government to post proposed substantive rule changes
in the Federal Register and allow the public to comment on them before
enacting them.

For years ICE has slammed sanctuary cities nationwide for refusing to
honor a local-federal partnership known as 287(g)
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that notifies the agency of jail inmates in
the country illegally so that they can be deported after serving time
for state crimes. Before Biden became president, ICE repeatedly issued
statements reminding sanctuary cities and states that when law
enforcement agencies fail to honor immigration detainers and release
serious criminal offenders onto the streets, it undermines its ability
protect public safety and carry out its mission. The agency even
launched a billboard campaign
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seeking the public’s help in capturing felons released by one
state’s sanctuary policy.

LEFTISTS MOVE AGAINST CONSERVATIVE RADIO STATION THAT FIRED CLINTON
FUNDRAISER

The First Amendment remains under the most sustained attack in a
hundred years by the extremist Left and its fellow-traveling
politicians. Our _Corruption Chronicle_ blog details
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an attack on free speech in Florida.

Democrats in Congress want the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)
to block the sale of a tiny south Florida radio station because the
new owner fired a Hillary Clinton fundraiser who once served as mayor
of a local city. The politician turned radio host, Raul Martinez, was
the Spanish-language station’s top host before a conservative media
conglomerate bought it and changed the liberal-leaning programming.
The deal received sparse local media coverage but earned national
attention when lawmakers in Washington D.C. asked a federal agency to
reject the sale for what appears to be political reasons.

It all seems to be connected to Democrats blaming conservative local
Spanish media for losing two key south Florida congressional seats in
the 2020 election. In the state’s District 27, political newcomer
Maria Elvira Salazar
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a
Cuban-American journalist, upset incumbent Donna Shalala, who served
as Bill Clinton’s Secretary of Health and Human Services. In the
26th District, Carlos Gimenez, also Cuban-American and the two-term
mayor of Miami-Dade County, ousted incumbent Debbie Mucarsel-Powell, a
native of Ecuador. Democrats blamed it on
misinformation—specifically false threats of socialism—promoted by
local Spanish-language media outlets that tend to have politically
conservative programming. “It was a McCarthyism type of pounding,”
Shalala said in a news article
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after her shocking loss to a largely unknown candidate who lacks her
name recognition.

In the aftermath of the losses a trivial Spanish-language radio
station, Caracol 1260 AM, is receiving peculiar attention over a
programming shift from federal lawmakers more than 1,000 miles away.
The news-talk station is being purchased by conservative America TeVe
for $350,000
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The new owners immediately replaced Martinez, the former mayor of
Hialeah, with a conservative journalist named Juan Manuel Cao, who
escaped Communist Cuba after serving time as a political prisoner. The
Cuban-born Martinez is a prominent liberal commentator and Clinton
friend who hosted a fundraising event at his home for Hillary’s 2007
presidential campaign. His son, Raul Martinez Jr., worked as
Clinton’s Florida director of coalitions. In the 1990s the elder
Martinez was convicted of extortion and racketeering for accepting $1
million in cash and property from land developers. The conviction was
reversed on appeal and in 1993 he supposedly won an election that a
judge threw out because of voter fraud.

This week the Congressional Hispanic Caucus called on the FCC to
reject the radio station’s sale to prevent what Democrats view as a
progressive broadcast station from airing conservative viewpoints in
Miami’s Hispanic community. FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, a Trump
appointee, blasted the lawmakers in a statement
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posted on
the agency’s website. “This attempt by Democrats in Congress to
pressure the FCC into blocking the sale of a Spanish-language radio
station based on the political viewpoints that it would broadcast to
South Florida’s Hispanic community crosses a line drawn by the First
Amendment,” Carr said. “The FCC has no business doing the
Democrats’ bidding or using our regulatory process to censor
political opinions that Democrats do not like.” He continues to
accuse the congressional delegation of treating the FCC as an arm of
the Democratic National Committee (DNC), expressly pressuring the
agency to take action that will increase party’s electoral odds in
Florida.

Indeed, Mucarsel-Powell, who lost her congressional seat after one
term, responded to a news magazine story
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on the radio station sale and programming change by posting on social
media: “To win in 2022 this must stop!
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In a separate news article a former Obama administration official
called the sale of the station to conservatives “a problem for the
party
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Another Obama administration official characterized the station’s
programming change as “another expanding tentacle in the right-wing
media ecosystem that is trying to implant itself in south Florida by
having ideological control of the airwaves that Hispanic voters most
listen to.” Carr, the Republican FCC commissioner, calls
Democrats’ request “a deeply troubling transgression of free
speech and the FCC’s status as an independent agency.”

Until next week …





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