Judicial Watch Files Two New FOIA Lawsuits
for Records on Biden Raid on Trump Home
We’re in court again to uncover more details of the Biden operation’s
decision-making leading up to its unconscionable raid on President
Trump’s Florida home.
We filed two FOIA suits against the Justice Department for FBI and DOJ
records of the Mar-a-Lago raid search warrant application and approval, as
well as communications about the warrant between the FBI, Executive Office
of the President and the Secret Service.
We sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the
DOJ failed to respond to August 2022 FOIA requests. The first complaint
asks for all records documenting the application, authorization and
communications related to the execution of a search warrant at the
residence of President Trump on August 8, 2022 (Judicial
Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice) (No. 1:22-cv-02884)).
Additionally, we are suing for all records of meetings or phone calls
between Director Wray, Deputy Director Abbate, Associate Deputy Director
Turner, Associate Deputy Director Sallet, and/or Chief of Staff Lenzner
pertaining to the search warrant. We also requested communications between
the FBI and the Executive Office of the President and/or the Secret Service
regarding the search warrant (Judicial
Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice) (No. 1:22-cv-02883)).
We are at the forefront of the court battle for transparency regarding the
abusive Biden raid on Trump’s home.
In August, we forced
the release of the raid affidavit. We also just sued
the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) for records about
its controversial targeting of former President Trump over this records
dispute.
The American people have a right to know the entire story about the Biden
administration’s abusive raid on President Trump’s home. The raid on
President Trump’s home was an outrageous, reckless, and unprecedented
abuse of power – and the unlawful Biden agency secrecy about the raid
only adds to the scandal.
Judicial Watch Sues California Sec of State for Causing YouTube to
Censor Key Election Integrity Video Just Before 2020 Election
Our country works only if we have clean elections, and we suffer if the
government imposes restraints on the exposure of less than fair voting.
That happened in California – to us. But it’s the voters who deserve
redress.
We filed a lawsuit against the Secretary of State of the State of
California for having YouTube censor a Judicial Watch election integrity
video (Judicial
Watch, Inc. v. Shirley Weber, in her official capacity as Secretary of
State of the State of California (No. 2:22-cv-6894)).
We sued in the U.S. District Court Central District of California Western
Division. Our suit states that the California Office of Elections
Cybersecurity (OEC), which Secretary of State Shirley Weber oversees,
caused YouTube to remove our election integrity video on September 25,
2020. We allege that the California official and her office violated our
First Amendment and other civil rights.
As we explain to the court, we have posted more than 4,200 videos on our
YouTube channel since 2006 and they have received nearly 94 million views.
Our channel has more than 502,000 subscribers. Because of the state’s
action, the video in question received only 5,531 views.
We ask the court to declare the state's actions to be unconstitutional and
permanently enjoin it from violating our constitutional rights and
unconstitutionally regulating our speech.
Here’s the story.
On September 22, 2020, we posted on our YouTube channel a video titled
“**ELECTION
INTEGRITY CRISIS** Dirty Voter Rolls, Ballot Harvesting & Mail-in-Voting
Risks!” The 26-minute video featured me discussing the vote-by-mail
processes, changes to states’ election procedures, ballot collection
(sometimes referred to as “ballot harvesting”), and states’ failures
to clean up their voter rolls, among other topics.
The complaint states that my comments were informed by successful lawsuits
we brought against Los Angeles County and Weber in 2017 to compel the
county and state to comply with the National Voter Registration Act’s (NVRA)
voter list maintenance requirements. For instance, in
June 2019, we were informed that Los Angeles County had sent notices to
1.6 million inactive voters on its voter rolls after a settlement agreement
had been reached. Prior to the California settlement
agreement, we estimated that national census data and voter-roll
information showed that there were 3.5
million more names on various county voter rolls nationwide than there
were citizens
of voting age.
Records show the Office of Elections Cybersecurity communicated with
YouTube and/or Google to have our video taken
down. On September 24, 2020, OEC Social Media Coordinator Akilah Jones
emailed “[email protected]”
and copied four YouTube employees with the subject line, “REPORT VIDEO:
**ELECTION INTEGRITY CRISIS** Dirty Voter Rolls, Ballot Harvesting &
Mail-in-Voting Risks!” In the email, Jones wrote:
Hi YouTube Reporting Team,
I am reporting the following video because it misleads community members
about elections or other civic processes and misrepresents the safety and
security of mail-in ballots. Thank you for your time and attention on this
matter.
All the best, Akilah.
At or about 11:16 a.m. (ET) on September 25, 2020, YouTube and/or Google
representative Andrea Holtermann replied to Jones:
Hi Akilah,
Thanks for reaching out. We will look into this and get back to you as soon
as we can.
Later that same day, we noticed that the video had been taken down.
On September 27, 2020, YouTube and/or Google’s Holtermann confirmed to
Jones that Judicial Watch’s video had been removed:
Hi Akilah,
Circling back on this. Thank you for raising this content to our attention,
this has been removed from the platform for violating our policies. Please
do not hesitate to reach out if there are any other questions or concerns
you may have.
Our complaint establishes that the actions of Weber and OEC violated our
First and Fourteen Amendment rights, as well as civil rights violations
under the California constitution.
Smoking gun documents show California government officials, who were being
advised by the Biden campaign PR operation, caused YouTube to censor a key
Judicial Watch video just before the 2020 election. This egregious
government censorship and election interference violated our civil rights,
and our lawsuit seeks to stop and expose the growing corruption of leftist
government officials colluding with Big Tech allies to attack the free
speech rights of Americans.
Judicial Watch Sues on Behalf of Concerned Military Group for Air
Force Academy Critical Race Theory Records
Judicial Watch is a national leader in exposing (and trying to stop) the
intrusion of Marxist propaganda in our military academies.
In June, we received
records revealing critical race theory instruction at the U.S. Military
Academy at West Point.
In July we sued
the Defense Department for records related to the United States Naval
Academy implementing critical race theory in the training of naval
recruits.
Thankfully, we’re not the only ones who are concerned. A group that
included retired and distinguished military officers have noticed what is
happening to their academies. We’re honored to assist them and get the
truth.
Judicial Watch just filed a FOIA suit on behalf of Stand Together Against
Racism and Radicalism in the Services, Inc. (STARRS) against the Defense
Department for U.S. Air Force Academy (USAFA) records regarding “systemic
racism,” as well as records of critical race theory at the academy (Stand
Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services, Inc. v U.S.
Department of Defense (No. 1:22-cv-02894)).
We sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the
Air Force refused to respond adequately to two FOIA requests about its race
theory materials.
In our complaint we explained to the court that STARRS asked for records
relating to a July 8, 2020, memorandum issued by the USAFA superintendent
which stated, in part, that: “[s]ystemic racism exists in our society,
and our USAFA community is not immune.” The memorandum also stated that
there would be “an institutional assessment and review for biases within
our policies, processes, practices, curriculum, and artifacts … [that]
will be used to make tangible, lasting changes, and to inform future
actions.” Our lawsuit also seeks records about any CRT training of USAFA
cadets.
Founded by a group of distinguished retired military officers, STARRS is
concerned about efforts to teach and implement aspects of CRT in U.S.
military academies and throughout the U.S. Armed Forces. STARRS has grown
to 2,932 members, including general officers, service academy graduates,
retired and active-duty officers and enlisted, and concerned civilians (https://www.starrs.us/).
According to U.S. Air Force retired Lieutenant General Rod Bishop,
STARRS’ Chairman of the Board, and the STARRS leadership team, each of
which served decades in uniform: “The USAFA’s superintendent’s claim
of systemic racism at the Academy did not comport with our experience. So,
we filed a FOIA request to learn more from the assessment he demanded. This
was not a complex request. The continuing refusal to respond to this
request speaks volumes.”
Our military is being undermined from within as the Air Force Academy
attacks America and force feed cadets repackaged Marxist anti-American
critical race theory.
Until next week,
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