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Judicial Watch Sues Justice Department for Records of Ashli Babbitt
Killing

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January 6 has become a touchstone in the uneven application of
justice aginst those who lean conservative. In particular, the
obviously political secrecy and stonewalling in the police killing of
Ashli Babbitt is undermining the rule of law.

Undaunted by the obstacles thrown our way, we filed a FOIA lawsuit
against the U.S. Department of Justice for records related to the
shooting death of 14-year Air Force veteran Ashli Babbitt on January
6, 2021, in the U.S. Capitol Building.

Babbitt was shot and killed
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as
she climbed through a broken interior window in the United State
Capitol. She was unarmed. The identity of the shooter was kept secret
by Congress as well as federal and local authorities for eight months
until U.S. Capitol Police officer Michael Byrd went public
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to
try to defend his killing of Ms. Babbitt.

On April 14, 2021, the Justice Department issued a press release
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stating:
“The U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia and the
Civil Rights Division of the U.S. Department of Justice will not
pursue criminal charges against the U.S. Capitol Police officer
involved in the fatal shooting of 35-year-old Ashli Babbitt, the
Office announced today.”

We sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after
the Executive Office for United States Attorneys, the Civil Rights
Division, and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (all components of
the Justice Department) failed to provide the records responsive to
our April 14, 2021 and May 20, 2021, FOIA requests (_Judicial Watch
v. U.S. Department of Justice_
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(No.
1:21-cv-02462)) for:

* All records, including but not limited to, investigative reports,
photographs, witness statements, dispatch logs, schematics,
ballistics, and video footage, concerning the January 6, 2021 death of
Ashli Babbitt in the Capitol Building.
* All draft and final prosecution declination memoranda related to
the death of Ashli Babbitt.
* All Office of the US Attorney for the District of Columbia
officials’ electronic communications concerning Ashli Babbitt and
the investigation of her death.
* All DOJ Civil Rights Division officials’ electronic
communications concerning Ashli Babbitt and the investigation of her
death.
* All FBI officials' electronic communications concerning Ashli
Babbitt and the investigation of er death. The time frame for the
requested records is January 6, 2021 to the present.

This lawsuit is part of our multi-faceted investigation into January
6.

Earlier this month, the District of Columbia asked a court for
an additional delay
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to
respond to our FOIA lawsuit for records related to the U.S. Capitol
Police shooting Babbitt to death.

We recently filed a motion for discovery
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in
our lawsuit against the United States Capitol Police (USCP) for emails
and videos concerning the Capitol disturbance. The Capitol Police are
trying to shut down the lawsuit by arguing
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that
the requested records are “not public records.”

On August 3, we announced that we obtained
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new documents showing the Washington, D.C. Medical Examiner submitted
a request to cremate Babbitt two days after gaining custody of her
body. The documents also showed that Babbitt’s fingerprints were
emailed to a person supposedly working for the D.C. government, which
resulted in Microsoft “undeliverable” messages written in Chinese
characters being returned.

Also in August, we uncovered
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records
related to the death of U.S. Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick
which show major media representatives pressuring the Office of the
Chief Medical Examiner (OCME) of the District of Columbia over its
conclusion that Officer Sicknick had died of natural causes
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In July, we announced a lawsuit
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against
the FBI for records of communication between the FBI and several
financial institutions about the reported transfer of financial
transactions made by people in DC, Maryland and Virginia on January 5
and January 6, 2021. The FBI has refused to confirm or deny the
existence of any such records.

In May, we sued
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both
the Department of the Interior and the Department of Defense for
records regarding the deployment of armed forces around the Capitol
complex in Washington, D.C., in January and February of 2021.

We also filed a lawsuit for Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s communications
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with
the Pentagon in the days after the January 6 incident.

And now that the Deep State leaked
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that
at least one of its (the FBI’s) informants entered the Capitol that
day and told them there was no grand conspiracy, it shows that the
lies about 1/6 are likely to rival the Russiagate hoax. All the more
reason that we’re not going to let this investigation go.

PRESIDENT TRUMP KEYNOTES JUDICIAL WATCH ROUNDTABLE IN MIAMI

President Donald J. Trump, the 45th President of the United States,
agreed delivered keynote address at our Annual Roundtable at the Trump
National Doral in Miami, Florida, on September 30.

When it comes to exposing government corruption, President Trump has
been the “Whistleblower-in-Chief.” We are honored that he will
address our supporters about the rule of law crisis and unprecedented
government abuse targeting him and other innocent Americans.

He gave an excellent presentation and I hope we’re able to release
clips of his address soon. My colleagues and I were excited to visit
with hundreds of Judicial Watch supporters at the event. We all want
action and we’re all pumped and refreshed to defend our
Constitution, the rule of law, and the American way against the
corrupt class trying to destroy our nation.

(For those of you new to our cause, Judicial Watch is America’s
largest and most effective government watchdog group and the
nation’s leading open records litigator. In recent years, we broke
open Hillary Clinton’s email and Benghazi scandals. We uncovered
much of what is publicly known about the illicit targeting and
investigation of President Trump. We are also a national leader in the
fight for clean elections and the enforcement of immigration law. We
have taken the lead in exposing Biden corruption and the facts behind
the COVID pandemic.)

U.S. GIVES “IMMIGRANT-SERVING ORGANIZATIONS” $10 MILLION UNDER
OBAMA PROGRAM

Leftist special interest organizations are too often subsidized with
your tax dollars. Not bad work if you can get it. Our _Corruption
Chronicles_ blog tells
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of one such feeding trough.

The U.S. government continues funding a costly initiative established
by former President Barack Obama to offer foreigners free English,
history, and civics courses as well as naturalization legal services.
The money flows through U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services
(USCIS), the Homeland Security agency with a staff of around 19,000
that oversees lawful immigration. Launched in 2009, the program aims
to expand citizenship preparation services nationwide by annually
awarding thousands of dollars to a multitude of leftist groups
described by the government as “immigrant-serving organizations
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in
dozens of states and the District of Columbia.

Officially, it is known as Citizenship and Integration Grant Program,
and since its inception it has doled out $112 million to 513
immigrant-serving organizations in 39 states, according to
USCIS figures
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The investment has helped some 290,500 foreigners prepare for U.S.
citizenship, likely not a pressing issue for most taxpaying Americans.
The citizenship project received its largest single-year allocation,
$62 million, when the Obama administration inaugurated it 12 years
ago. The Trump administration kept the taxpayer dollars flowing with
substantial Department of Homeland Security (DHS) grants allocated to
open border groups in chunks of several hundred thousand dollars
apiece. In fact, in 2019 Judicial Watch reported on the Trump
administration’s $10 million allocation
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to
the immigrant integration program.

Most of this year’s 41 grant recipients received $250,000 each
although a few got several thousand dollars less. The groups are
spread throughout the nation and include nonprofits such as Progreso
Latino
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in Central Falls, Rhode Island
($250,000 grant), Instituto del Progreso Latino
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($250,000) in Chicago, Illinois
and Women for Afghan Women
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($250,000)
in Fresh Meadows, New York. One recipient of multiple integration
grants, Los Angeles-based Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights
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(CHIRLA),
led the effort to pass a California law giving illegal immigrants
driver’s licenses and provided undocumented migrants with free
“exam preparation classes.” CHIRLA, which fought to include
illegal immigrants in COVID-19 relief at the local, state, and federal
level, is getting $250,000 from American taxpayers this round to
provide assimilation services.

The groups will use public funds to provide candidates with
instruction in U.S. history and government for citizenship test
preparation and activities that promote civic and linguistic
assimilation. That includes English as a Second Language (ESL)
instruction in reading, writing, and speaking by specialized teachers.
Civic assimilation activities will consist of local trips to sites and
landmarks of historical or cultural significance, guest speakers such
as local public servants and other activities that promote in-depth
understanding of government functions, geography, traditions, symbols,
and holidays. Naturalization application services will cover the
preparation and submission of forms required by the federal government
and appearing at naturalization interviews and hearings with
applicants.

Similar programs, also funded with USCIS grants, were incredibly
popular during the Obama years and Judicial Watch monitored them
closely. It was part of a broader, government-wide initiative
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launched
by the former president to “strengthen federal immigrant and refugee
integration infrastructure.” The mission was to facilitate life in
the U.S. for immigrants and refugees by enhancing pathways to
naturalization, building welcoming communities and providing “mobile
immigration services in underserved communities.” To carry out the
mission Obama created a special Task Force on New Americans chaired by
his Domestic Policy Director, Cecilia Muñoz, the former vice
president of the powerful open borders group National Council of La
Raza (recently renamed Unidos US
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Millions of taxpayer dollars flowed to the task force’s various
enterprises, including multilingual media campaigns promoting
immigrant rights. The goal was to “strengthen civic, economic and
linguistic integration and to build strong and welcoming
communities,” according to a report
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issued
by the task force. In its final months, the Obama administration doled
out $29 million via USCIS grants to register new immigrant voters that
likely supported Democrats in the presidential election. Officially it
was described as “citizenship integration” aimed at enhancing
pathways to naturalization by offering immigrants free citizenship
instruction, English, U.S. history and civics courses. The money was
distributed through two separate USCIS grants
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the first for $19 million and a second, just five months later, for
$10 million. That grant came in a final push before the presidential
election to prepare approximately 25,000 residents from more than 50
countries. More than a dozen states—including California, New York,
Florida, Washington. and Ohio—with large resident immigrant
populations were targeted as well as cities with huge immigrant
populations such as Miami, Los Angeles, Chicago, San Francisco and
Washington D.C.
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