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<title>Illegal Aliens Vote – in DC!</title>
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<description><![CDATA[New Documents Reveal DC Training for Noncitizen Voting HHS Rules Certain Illegal Immigrants Eligible for Obamacare New Documents Reveal DC Training for Noncitizen Voting If you think concerns about illegal aliens becoming voters are overblown, look no further than your nation’s capital. We received 13-pages of records from the District of Columbia explaining to illegal […]
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<a href="#anc1">New Documents Reveal DC Training for Noncitizen Voting</a> 
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New Documents Reveal DC Training for Noncitizen Voting
If you think concerns about illegal aliens becoming voters are overblown, look no further than your nation’s capital.
We received <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/documents/dc-noncitizen-voting-training-2024/">13-pages</a> of records from the District of Columbia explaining to illegal aliens and other noncitizens how they can register to vote in local elections.
The records came in response to an April 12, 2024, FOIA request for:
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On April 10, 2024, DC held a training <a href="https://dcboe.org/Events/Non-Citizen-Voting-Education-Virtual-Training">event</a> titled ”Non-Citizen Voting Education Virtual Training” in which DC announced noncitizen voting would begin in 2024.
A PowerPoint presentation explains:
Non-US citizen residents of the District of Columbia can vote in local elections under the Local Resident Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2022. Non-US citizen residents can vote in District elections for the offices of Mayor, Attorney General, Chairman or member(s) of the DC Council, member(s) of the State [sic] Board of Education, or Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner(s) Non-US citizen residents cannot vote for Federal Offices
To register to vote in the District of Columbia as a non-citizen, you must: Be at least 17 years old and 18 years old by the next General Election; Maintain residency in the District of Columbia for at least 30 days prior to the election in which you intend to vote; Not claim voting residence or the right to vote in any state, territory, or country; Not been found by a court to be legally incompetent to vote.
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You must provide proof of your address in the District of Columbia at an Early Vote Center prior to Election Day or at the polling place assigned to your address on Election Day.
In 2023 the DC Council <a href="https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/laws/24-242#:~:text=Local%20Resident%20Voting%20Rights%20Amendment%20Act%20of%202022.,-AN%20ACT&text=To%20amend%20the%20District%20of,otherwise%20eligible%20non%2Dcitizen%20residents.">amended</a> the District of Columbia Election Code of 1955 to expand the definition of the term qualified elector to include otherwise eligible noncitizen residents, including illegal aliens.
According to <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/611">federal law</a>, only U.S. citizens can vote in federal elections, but a growing number of state and local elections <a href="https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/should-non-citizens-be-allowed-to-vote-a-number-of-cities-allow-it-in-local-elections-david-trone-democrat-frontrunner-maryland-washington-dc-san-francisco-oakland-california-new-york-city-appeals-court-ruling-republicans-2024-election-immigration-policy">allow</a> noncitizens to vote, among them San Francisco and Oakland, California, along with some cities in Maryland and Vermont. In February, a state appeals court ruled a similar New York City law violates the state constitution.
DC’s law <a href="https://dcist.com/story/23/01/12/congressional-gop-want-overturn-dc-bill-allowing-non-citizens-vote/">went</a> a step further than those jurisdictions, though, by extending the franchise to undocumented immigrants.
The District’s action was <a href="https://dcist.com/story/23/01/12/congressional-gop-want-overturn-dc-bill-allowing-non-citizens-vote/">opposed</a> by congressional Republicans. but they failed to overturn the measure.
Illegal aliens and noncitizens should not vote in any elections. That Congress allows the votes of citizens to be legally stolen by illegal aliens in our nation’s capital is inexcusable.
 
 
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HHS Rules Certain Illegal Immigrants Eligible for Obamacare
Our Corruption Chronicles blog <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/hhs-rules-illegal-immigrants-protected-by-daca-eligible-for-govt-subsidized-obamacare/">reports</a> on the Biden administration latest back-door amnesty for yet another category of illegal aliens:
Illegal immigrants protected by a controversial Obama amnesty program for adults who came to the U.S. as children are eligible to receive government-subsidized health insurance under a new Biden administration rule that will cost American taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars annually. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently amended its regulations to extend the publicly funded perk to migrants who have benefited from Obama’s <a href="https://www.uscis.gov/DACA">Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals</a> (DACA), a measure enacted by the former president by executive order after Congress repeatedly rejected legislation offering illegal aliens similar protections. The failed bill was called Development Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM Act) and those shielded by Obama’s order are often referred to as Dreamers.
So-called Dreamers specifically do not qualify for government-subsidized insurance under Obama’s disastrous healthcare overhaul, officially called the Affordable Care Act (ACA) but better known as Obamacare. The 2010 measure requires individuals to be citizens or lawfully present in the United States to enroll in a qualified health plan through the Obamacare exchange. ACA also requires enrollees to be lawfully present in the U.S. to be eligible for insurance affordability programs such as cost sharing reductions and advance payments of the premium tax credit. A few years after Obamacare passed, HHS issued regulations that explicitly exclude recipients of the former president’s DACA from being categorized as lawfully present in the country for the purpose of subsidized health insurance under ACA. The agency explained that allowing Dreamers to participate in the government’s insurance affordability programs was not consistent with the relief that the special amnesty initiative afforded, a reference to temporary protection from deportation.
Now HHS has done an about face, issuing a <a href="https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-09661.pdf">rule</a> that makes DACA recipients eligible to enroll in a qualified health plan through an Obamacare exchange or a state basic health program. “Specifically, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients and certain other noncitizens will be included in the definitions of “lawfully present” that are used to determine eligibility to enroll in a QHP through an Exchange, for Advance Payments of the Premium Tax Credit (APTC) and Cost-Sharing Reductions (CSRs), or for a BHP,” the new rule states. It will take effect on November 1 and HHS estimates that it will cost American taxpayers about $305 million annually. The agency explains in the new 145-page rule that after “further review and consideration, it is clear that the DACA policy is intended to provide recipients with a degree of stability and assurance that would allow them to obtain education and lawful employment, including because recipients remain lower priorities for removal.” Therefore, the document says, “extending eligibility to these individuals is consistent with those goals.”
More than half a million illegal immigrants are currently protected under DACA, according to <a href="https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/data/Active_DACA_Recipients_March_FY23_qtr2.pdf">government figures</a>, and over 800,000 under the age of 31 have been shielded from deportation and allowed to obtain work permits and drivers licenses since the measure was enacted. A big chunk of DACA applicants have <a href="https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/data/DACA_Requestors_IDENT_Nov._2019.pdf">arrest records</a>, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the Homeland Security agency that administers the nation’s lawful immigration system. Nearly 110,000 illegal aliens who requested the special Obama-era amnesty for adults who came to the U.S. as children have criminal histories for offenses that include assault, battery, rape, murder and driving under the influence. Tens of thousands of DACA recipients have multiple arrests and hundreds have more than 10 arrests, according to USCIS.
A few years ago, migrants protected under DACA were among <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/dreamers-arrested-in-protests-helped-those-who-were-there-to-commit-crime-and-damage/">rioters and looters arrested</a> and criminally charged with crimes during a Black Lives Matter “Justice for George Floyd” protest in downtown Phoenix, Arizona. Among them was 30-year-old Mexican national Maxima Guerrero, a community organizer with a Phoenix-based grassroots migrant justice organization called Puente Movement. During the riots, Guerrero and her fellow DACA friends occupied a vehicle “loaded with incendiary devices,” according to a high-level Phoenix Police source. Now, thanks to the Biden administration, lawbreakers like Guerrero and her friends can get their health insurance subsidized by Uncle Sam.
 
Until next week,
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<title>Biden Administration Devotes Half a Million Dollars to Combat Misinformation in Africa</title>
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<dc:creator><![CDATA[Irene]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Thu, 16 May 2024 16:42:07 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[The Biden administration’s wasteful endeavor to combat misinformation is expanding internationally with half a million American taxpayer dollars going to Africa to help journalists thousands of miles across the Atlantic counter disinformation and youth spot truth in fake news. It is part of an expansive effort to divert substantial amounts of public funds for a […]
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Biden administration’s wasteful endeavor to combat misinformation is expanding internationally with half a million American taxpayer dollars going to Africa to help journalists thousands of miles across the Atlantic counter disinformation and youth spot truth in fake news. It is part of an expansive effort to divert substantial amounts of public funds for a fictitious crisis created by the president and his advisors to control information. The movement started domestically with a Department of Homeland Security (DHS) panel known as the Disinformation Governance Board, which was technically dismantled after major backlash. Taxpayer dollars keep flowing to related causes nationwide, however. Millions in DHS terrorism prevention grants have gone to combat “misinformation and disinformation” and to create media disinformation networks worldwide. Large sums have also gone to related projects such as fighting science misinformation and misperceptions in black communities and, of course, COVID-19 misinformation, especially involving minorities and vaccines.
More recently, the initiative has spread globally with government dollars going to causes that should ignite fury in those who pay taxes. For example, earlier this year the Biden administration dedicated <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/pakistani-journalists/">$50,000 </a>to counter disinformation in the Islamic Republic of Pakistan by training journalists with handpicked “U.S. subject matter experts” with a mandate of Diversity, Equity, Inclusion, and Accessibility (DEIA). The special training will occur over six months and consist of three-day quarterly workshops conducted by the so-called U.S. subject matter experts selected by the administration. The goal is to empower journalists in Pakistan with the skills and knowledge to effectively counter misinformation and disinformation, ensuring accurate and responsible reporting, according to the administration. Grant recipients had to submit proposals that show their program will advance the principles of DEIA related to race, ethnicity, gender identity, religion and sexual orientation as well as underserved communities.
In the latest foreign allocation to counter misinformation, Uncle Sam is doling out $500,000 to steer Africa in the right direction, specifically reporters and kids. The administration will spend $250,000 to organize a training on <a href="https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/354147">understanding and countering disinformation for African Journalists </a>that aims to empower reporters with the skills and knowledge to effectively counter misinformation and disinformation, according to the administration. The goal is to ensure accurate and responsible reporting and it will be accomplished with a series of workshops that will train African journalists to understand and identify misinformation/disinformation and its impact, recognize red flags and manipulative tactics and help them master ethical reporting. Training will be conducted virtually in French and English over six months and will consist of online presentations and dialogues between American experts and the African audience. “The extensive spread of false information poses a significant obstacle to the stability and prosperity of African nations,” the government’s grant announcement states, adding that “a clear correlation exists between the extent of disinformation and societal unrest.”
Another $250,000 will go to help <a href="https://www.grants.gov/search-results-detail/354150">empower youth, young adults, educators, community leaders and organizers</a> with the skills and knowledge to effectively counter misinformation and disinformation. The U.S. will fund a series of workshops, also virtually in French and English over six months, to help young Africans understand media literacy and identify bias. The Biden administration’s handpicked American experts will teach them to evaluate sources, recognize types of media and guide them in identifying propaganda and fake news. The workshops will emphasize the impact of disinformation such as the effects it has on public opinion, democracy and social cohesion. “In Africa, the rise of disinformation, accelerated by digital technology, demands urgent media literacy initiatives among youth,” the U.S. grant announcement says, repeating that the escalation in false information correlates directly with societal unrest and democratic erosion. “With over 60% of Africa’s population under 25, empowering youth with media literacy skills is critical,” the document states.
In an apparent effort to support funding the cause, earlier this year the Biden administration warned about <a href="https://www.state.gov/the-kremlins-efforts-to-spread-deadly-disinformation-in-africa/">Russian efforts to spread deadly disinformation in Africa</a>, especially involving U.S. and western health initiatives in the world’s second-largest continent. According to the warning the Kremlin’s disinformation campaign in Africa has recruited local journalists, bloggers and members of the public to bolster Russia’s image and denigrate other countries. “Foreign information manipulation” is a critical threat around the world and a dangerous destabilizing tactic, the State Department warns.
The post <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/biden-administration-devotes-half-a-million-dollars-to-combat-misinformation-in-africa/">Biden Administration Devotes Half a Million Dollars to Combat Misinformation in Africa</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org">Judicial Watch</a>.
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<title>DC hosted voting registration training for illegal immigrants</title>
<link>https://www.judicialwatch.org/dc-hosted-voting-registration-training-for-illegal-immigrants/</link>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Campbell]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Wed, 15 May 2024 12:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Washington, D.C., hosted an online training camp last month to help illegal immigrants sign up to vote in city elections. Making good on new legislation granting illegal immigrants voting rights, even for those who have lived in the district for just 30 days, the city joined a handful of others in opening the vote to undocumented migrants. The training PowerPoint, […]
The post <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/dc-hosted-voting-registration-training-for-illegal-immigrants/">DC hosted voting registration training for illegal immigrants</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org">Judicial Watch</a>.
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[<a title="Washington, D.C." href="https://washingtonexaminer.com/tag/washington-dc/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Washington, D.C.</a>, hosted an online training camp last month to help <a title="" href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/2959294/voters-illegal-immigration-biden-secret-permanent-majority/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">illegal immigrants</a> sign up to <a title="vote" href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/voting/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">vote</a> in city elections.
Making good on new legislation granting illegal immigrants voting rights, even for those who have lived in the district for just 30 days, the city joined a handful of others in opening the vote to undocumented migrants.
The <a title="" href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/documents/dc-noncitizen-voting-training-2024/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">training PowerPoint</a>, provided to legal watchdog <a title="" href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/tag/judicial-watch/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Judicial Watch</a> under a Freedom of Information Act request, said that some form of government identification was required to register.
Read more <a href="https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/washington-secrets/3003524/dc-hosted-voting-registration-training-illegal-immigrants/">here</a>…
The post <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/dc-hosted-voting-registration-training-for-illegal-immigrants/">DC hosted voting registration training for illegal immigrants</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org">Judicial Watch</a>.
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<title>HHS Rules Illegal Immigrants Protected by DACA Eligible for Govt.-Subsidized Obamacare</title>
<link>https://www.judicialwatch.org/hhs-rules-illegal-immigrants-protected-by-daca-eligible-for-govt-subsidized-obamacare/</link>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[Irene]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 16:50:29 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Illegal immigrants protected by a controversial Obama amnesty program for adults who came to the U.S. as children are eligible to receive government-subsidized health insurance under a new Biden administration rule that will cost American taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars annually. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently amended its regulations to […]
The post <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/hhs-rules-illegal-immigrants-protected-by-daca-eligible-for-govt-subsidized-obamacare/">HHS Rules Illegal Immigrants Protected by DACA Eligible for Govt.-Subsidized Obamacare</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org">Judicial Watch</a>.
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[Illegal immigrants protected by a controversial Obama amnesty program for adults who came to the U.S. as children are eligible to receive government-subsidized health insurance under a new Biden administration rule that will cost American taxpayers hundreds of millions of dollars annually. The Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) recently amended its regulations to extend the publicly funded perk to migrants who have benefited from Obama’s <a href="https://www.uscis.gov/DACA">Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals</a> (DACA), a measure enacted by the former president by executive order after Congress repeatedly rejected legislation offering illegal aliens similar protections. The failed bill was called Development Relief and Education for Alien Minors (DREAM Act) and those shielded by Obama’s order are often referred to as Dreamers.
So-called Dreamers specifically do not qualify for government-subsidized insurance under Obama’s disastrous healthcare overhaul, officially called the Affordable Care Act (ACA) but better known as Obamacare. The 2010 measure requires individuals to be citizens or lawfully present in the United States to enroll in a qualified health plan through the Obamacare exchange. ACA also requires enrollees to be to be lawfully present in the U.S. to be eligible for insurance affordability programs such as cost sharing reductions and advance payments of the premium tax credit. A few years after Obamacare passed, HHS issued regulations that explicitly exclude recipients of the former president’s DACA from being categorized as lawfully present in the country for the purpose of subsidized health insurance under ACA. The agency explained that allowing Dreamers to participate in the government’s insurance affordability programs was not consistent with the relief that the special amnesty initiative afforded, a reference to temporary protection from deportation.
Now HHS has done an about face, issuing a <a href="https://public-inspection.federalregister.gov/2024-09661.pdf">rule </a>that makes DACA recipients eligible to enroll in a qualified health plan through an Obamacare exchange or a state basic health program. “Specifically, Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients and certain other noncitizens will be included in the definitions of “lawfully present” that are used to determine eligibility to enroll in a QHP through an Exchange, for Advance Payments of the Premium Tax Credit (APTC) and Cost-Sharing Reductions (CSRs), or for a BHP,” the new rule states. It will take effect on November 1 and HHS estimates that it will cost American taxpayers about $305 million annually. The agency explains in the new 145-page rule that after “further review and consideration, it is clear that the DACA policy is intended to provide recipients with a degree of stability and assurance that would allow them to obtain education and lawful employment, including because recipients remain lower priorities for removal.” Therefore, the document says, “extending eligibility to these individuals is consistent with those goals.”
More than half a million illegal immigrants are currently protected under DACA, according to <a href="https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/data/Active_DACA_Recipients_March_FY23_qtr2.pdf">government figures</a>, and over 800,000 under the age of 31 have been shielded from deportation and allowed to obtain work permits and drivers licenses since the measure was enacted. A big chunk of DACA applicants have <a href="https://www.uscis.gov/sites/default/files/document/data/DACA_Requestors_IDENT_Nov._2019.pdf">arrest records</a>, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), the Homeland Security agency that administers the nation’s lawful immigration system. Nearly 110,000 illegal aliens who requested the special Obama-era amnesty for adults who came to the U.S. as children have criminal histories for offenses that include assault, battery, rape, murder and driving under the influence. Tens of thousands of DACA recipients have multiple arrests and hundreds have more than 10 arrests, according to USCIS.
A few years ago, migrants protected under DACA were among <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/dreamers-arrested-in-protests-helped-those-who-were-there-to-commit-crime-and-damage/">rioters and looters arrested</a> and criminally charged with crimes during a Black Lives Matter “Justice for George Floyd” protest in downtown Phoenix, Arizona. Among them was 30-year-old Mexican national Maxima Guerrero, a community organizer with a Phoenix-based grassroots migrant justice organization called Puente Movement. During the riots, Guerrero and her fellow DACA friends occupied a vehicle “loaded with incendiary devices,” according to a high-level Phoenix Police source. Now, thanks to the Biden administration, lawbreakers like Guerrero and her friends can get their health insurance subsidized by Uncle Sam.
The post <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/hhs-rules-illegal-immigrants-protected-by-daca-eligible-for-govt-subsidized-obamacare/">HHS Rules Illegal Immigrants Protected by DACA Eligible for Govt.-Subsidized Obamacare</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org">Judicial Watch</a>.
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<title>Judicial Watch Sues California to Force Clean-Up of Voting Rolls</title>
<link>https://www.judicialwatch.org/judicial-watch-sues-california-to-force-clean-up-of-voting-rolls/</link>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Campbell]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Tue, 14 May 2024 15:13:47 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[Top Headlines of the Week Press Releases Judicial Watch Sues California to Force Clean-Up of Voting Rolls “Dirty voting rolls can mean dirty elections. And California’s voting rolls continue to be a mess,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Judicial Watch litigation already caused the state to remove over a million outdated names from the […]
The post <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/judicial-watch-sues-california-to-force-clean-up-of-voting-rolls/">Judicial Watch Sues California to Force Clean-Up of Voting Rolls</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org">Judicial Watch</a>.
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<a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/california-clean-up-voting-rolls/">Judicial Watch Sues California to Force Clean-Up of Voting Rolls</a>
“Dirty voting rolls can mean dirty elections. And California’s voting rolls continue to be a mess,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Judicial Watch litigation already caused the state to remove over a million outdated names from the rolls in California but our new lawsuit shows there is more work to do.”
<a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/raid-of-trumps-home/">Judicial Watch: Voicemail Recording Shows FBI and Secret Service Coordination on Raid of Trump’s Home</a>
Judicial Watch announced recently that it received a recording of a phone message left by an FBI special agent for someone at the Secret Service in the context of the raid on President Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.
<a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/willis-fails-to-answer-lawsuit/">Fani Willis Fails to Answer Public Records Lawsuit – Judicial Watch Files Motion for ‘Default Judgment’</a>
Judicial Watch announced recently that it asked the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia, to declare a default judgment against District Attorney Fani Willis in Judicial Watch’s lawsuit seeking records of communications Willis had with Special Counsel Jack Smith and the House January 6 Committee.
<a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/documents-reveal-dc-training-noncitizen-voting/">Judicial Watch: New Documents Reveal DC Training for Noncitizen Voting</a>
Judicial Watch announced today that it received 13-pages of records in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from the District of Columbia, explaining to illegal aliens and other noncitizens how they can register to vote in local elections.
<h3 style="padding-left: 40px;">In The News</h3>
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<a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/bragg-paid-to-shut-down-house-judiciary-oversight-into-indictment-of-trump/">Records Show NY District Attorney Alvin Bragg Paid over $900/Hour to Shut Down House Judiciary Oversight into Indictment of President Trump</a>
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The House Judiciary Committee on March 20 sent a letter to Bragg, demanding records related to the “unprecedented abuse of prosecutorial authority: “The facts surrounding the impending indictment have “been known for years.” Michael Cohen, President Trump’s disgraced former lawyer, pleaded guilty over four years ago to charges based on the same facts at issue in the impending indictment. By July 2019, however, federal prosecutors determined that no additional people would be charged alongside Cohen.”
<h3 style="padding-left: 40px;"><a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/justice-department-rebuked-for-delay-tactics-in-biden-hur-tapes-pursuant-to-judges-order/">Justice Department rebuked for delay tactics in Biden-Hur tapes pursuant to judge’s order</a></h3>
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The Justice Department faced criticism on Friday for pushing back on a federal court’s order to expedite the timeline for determining whether recordings of President Biden’s interviews with then-Special Counsel Robert Hur should be released.
The situation developed after advocacy groups filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the recording last month.
<h3 style="padding-left: 40px;"><a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/absolutely-incredible-unsealed-records-in-trump-classified-doc-case-exposes-odd-detail/">‘Absolutely incredible!’ Unsealed records in Trump ‘classified doc’ case exposes ODD detail</a></h3>
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The latest unsealed records regarding the former president’s legal woes were deemed “absolutely incredible” after records showed part of the classified documents case “we never heard.”
Throughout the week, United States District Judge Aileen Cannon followed through with a decision regarding the release of records in former President Donald Trump’s Florida case over his alleged mishandling of classified documents. Now, roughly 20 months after his Palm Beach, Florida home was raided by the FBI, commentator Julie Kelly spotlighted a particular detail about an order for Trump’s team to first “come get” what he was indicted for having.
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<title>Illegal migrants are being ‘encouraged’ to vote, top Republican warns after shocking documents reveals ‘training’ for noncitizens to cast ballots in Washington D.C.</title>
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Newly released documents about a Washington, D.C. training program for illegal immigrants to vote in <a id="mol-d73a0e50-1165-11ef-951a-359101021f50" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/uk-local-elections/index.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">local elections</a> prove the need for the SAVE act, according to Rep. <a id="mol-d6bd1620-1165-11ef-951a-359101021f50" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/chip-roy/index.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">Chip Roy</a>.
‘The radical progressive Democrats in the DC city government couldn’t be prouder of the fact that they’re going to have illegal <a id="mol-cd3358a0-1168-11ef-951a-359101021f50" href="https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/aliens/index.html" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">aliens</a> voting in their elections; yet, they want us to believe that it’s going to stop there, and that none of them are going to try — or be encouraged — to illegally vote in federal elections? Give me a break,’ Roy, R-Texas, told DailyMail.com.
‘Without the verification measures in the SAVE Act, we’re basically asking people who are already breaking the law by coming to the US illegally to abide by the honor system. No way; American elections should belong to American citizens, period.’
Roy is the lead sponsor of new legislation that will soon hit the House floor to prevent illegal immigrants from voting in federal elections – a practice that is already illegal and thought to be rare.
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<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2024 15:13:12 +0000</pubDate>
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<description><![CDATA[(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it received 13-pages of records in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from the District of Columbia, explaining to illegal aliens and other noncitizens how they can register to vote in local elections. The records came in response to an April 12, 2024, FOIA request for: Materials […]
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it received <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/documents/dc-noncitizen-voting-training-2024/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0">13-pages</a> of records in response to a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request from the District of Columbia, explaining to illegal aliens and other noncitizens how they can register to vote in local elections.
 The records came in response to an April 12, 2024, FOIA request for: 
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 On April 10, 2024, DC held a training <a href="https://dcboe.org/Events/Non-Citizen-Voting-Education-Virtual-Training" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1">event</a> titled ”Non-Citizen Voting Education Virtual Training” in which DC announced noncitizen voting would begin in 2024.
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Non-US citizen residents of the District of Columbia can vote in local elections under the Local Resident Voting Rights Amendment Act of 2022. Non-US citizen residents can vote in District elections for the offices of Mayor, Attorney General, Chairman or member(s) of the DC Council, member(s) of the State [sic] Board of Education, or Advisory Neighborhood Commissioner(s) Non-US citizen residents cannot vote for Federal Offices
To register to vote in the District of Columbia as a non-citizen, you must: Be at least 17 years old and 18 years old by the next General Election; Maintain residency in the District of Columbia for at least 30 days prior to the election in which you intend to vote; Not claim voting residence or the right to vote in any state, territory, or country; Not been found by a court to be legally incompetent to vote.
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You must provide proof of your address in the District of Columbia at an Early Vote Center prior to Election Day or at the polling place assigned to your address on Election Day.
In 2023 the DC Council <a href="https://code.dccouncil.gov/us/dc/council/laws/24-242#:~:text=Local%20Resident%20Voting%20Rights%20Amendment%20Act%20of%202022.,-AN%20ACT&text=To%20amend%20the%20District%20of,otherwise%20eligible%20non%2Dcitizen%20residents." target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2">amended</a> the District of Columbia Election Code of 1955 to expand the definition of the term qualified elector to include otherwise eligible noncitizen residents, including illegal aliens.
DC’s law <a href="https://dcist.com/story/23/01/12/congressional-gop-want-overturn-dc-bill-allowing-non-citizens-vote/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="3">went</a> a step further than those jurisdictions, though, by extending the franchise to undocumented immigrants.
The District’s action was <a href="https://dcist.com/story/23/01/12/congressional-gop-want-overturn-dc-bill-allowing-non-citizens-vote/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="4">opposed</a> by congressional Republicans but they failed to overturn the measure.
“Illegal aliens and noncitizens should not vote in any elections,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. “That Congress allows the votes of citizens to be legally stolen by illegal aliens in our nation’s capital is inexcusable.”
According to <a href="https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/611" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="5">federal law</a>, only U.S. citizens can vote in federal elections, but a growing number of state and local elections <a href="https://abc3340.com/news/nation-world/should-non-citizens-be-allowed-to-vote-a-number-of-cities-allow-it-in-local-elections-david-trone-democrat-frontrunner-maryland-washington-dc-san-francisco-oakland-california-new-york-city-appeals-court-ruling-republicans-2024-election-immigration-policy" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="6">allow</a> noncitizens to vote, among them San Francisco and Oakland, California, along with some cities in Maryland and Vermont. In February, a state appeals court ruled a similar New York City law violates the state constitution.
 
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<link>https://www.judicialwatch.org/justice-department-rebuked-for-delay-tactics-in-biden-hur-tapes-pursuant-to-judges-order/</link>
<dc:creator><![CDATA[James Campbell]]></dc:creator>
<pubDate>Mon, 13 May 2024 14:43:18 +0000</pubDate>
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[The Justice Department faced criticism on Friday for pushing back on a federal court’s order to expedite the timeline for determining whether recordings of President Biden’s interviews with <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/media/biden-classified-docs-report-no-criminal-charges-enough-invoke-25th-amendment" target="_blank" rel="noopener">then-Special Counsel</a> Robert Hur should be released.
The situation developed after advocacy groups filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request for the recording last month.
The Heritage Foundation’s Oversight Project, as well as Judicial Watch and CNN, all filed requests seeking the release of the tapes, which congressional Republicans have sought and unsuccessfully subpoenaed. The three organizations’ FOIA requests were combined into one suit.
In April, the DOJ <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/doj-will-not-turn-over-bidens-recorded-interview-special-counsel-hur-congress" target="_blank" rel="noopener">announced it would not</a> abide by a subpoena from House Republicans, while maintaining its cooperation with Congress’ Biden family investigation has been “extraordinary.” That development led Reps. James Comer, R-Ky., and Jim Jordan, R-Ohio, to threaten Attorney General Merrick Garland with a contempt of Congress citation.
However, Washington, D.C.’s U.S. District Court ruled this week there would be an expedited briefing schedule to litigate the release of the tapes, which Republicans claim will further prove Biden’s cognitive decline and lack of fitness for office.
Read more <a href="https://www.foxnews.com/politics/justice-department-rebuked-delay-tactics-biden-hur-tapes-pursuant-judges-order">here</a>…
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<pubDate>Sat, 11 May 2024 00:03:54 +0000</pubDate>
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Fani Willis Fails to Answer Lawsuit – Judicial Watch Seeks Default Judgment
Is the Georgia DA trying to hide something or is she just incompetent?
Judicial Watch just <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/documents/jw-v-fani-willis-default-002805/">asked</a> the Superior Court of Fulton County, Georgia, to declare a default judgment against District Attorney Fani Willis in our lawsuit for records of communications Willis had with Special Counsel Jack Smith and the House January 6 Committee.
Our <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/fani-willis-communications/">lawsuit</a> was filed in the Superior Court of Fulton County, GA, after Willis and the county denied having any records responsive to an August 2023 Georgia Open Records Act request for communications with the Special Counsel’s office and/or the January 6 Committee (<a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/documents/jw-v-willis-jack-smith-complaint-002805/">Judicial Watch Inc. v. Fani Willis et al.</a> (No. 24-CV-002805)). (Judicial Watch dismissed Fulton County from the lawsuit.)
In our motion we note that Willis was served with the lawsuit on March 11, 2024, but that she has not yet answered it:
Defendant has not filed an answer and no answer has been served upon [Judicial Watch].… Defendant’s answer was due 30 days after service, or on April 10, 2024. Pursuant to [Georgia law] the case automatically became in default when an answer was not filed by the due date. Further pursuant to that Code section, Defendant was permitted as a matter of right to open the default within 15 days of the day of default, or by April 25, 2024.
Our attorneys assert that we are now entitled to a verdict and judgment by default.
Our <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/fani-willis-communications/">lawsuit</a> details Willis’ “representation about not having records responsive to the request is likely false.” Judicial Watch refers to a December 5, 2023, <a href="https://bit.ly/3IqKOro">letter</a> from House Judiciary Committee Chairman Jim Jordan to Willis that cites a December 2021, letter from Willis to then-House January 6 Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson. In that letter Willis requested assistance from the committee and offered to travel to DC.
We also cite news reports and other records which “indicate that representatives of Willis’ office traveled to Washington, DC, and met with January 6 Select Committee staffers in April, May, and November 2022, as Willis proposed in her December 17, 2021 letter …”
I think this is the first time in Judicial Watch’s 30 years that a government official failed to answer an open records lawsuit in court. This further shows Ms. Willis has something to hide about her collusion with the Biden administration and Nancy Pelosi’s Congress on her unprecedented and compromised “get-Trump” prosecution.
We are assisted in the case by John Monroe of John Monroe Law in Georgia.
Judicial Watch has several FOIA lawsuits related to the prosecutorial abuse targeting Trump.
In February 2024, the U.S. Department of Justice <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/names-of-top-staff-anti-trump/">asked</a> a federal court to allow the agency to keep secret the names of top staffers working in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office that is targeting former President Donald Trump and other Americans.
(Before his appointment to investigate and prosecute Trump, Special Counsel Jack Smith previously was at the center of several controversial issues, the <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/judicial-watch-new-documents-reveal-doj-irs-and-fbi-plan-to-seek-criminal-charges-of-obama-opponents/">IRS scandal</a> among them. In 2014, a Judicial Watch <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/jw-guide-to-congressional-investigations/">investigation</a> revealed that top IRS officials had been in communication with Jack Smith’s then-Public Integrity Section about a plan to launch criminal investigations into conservative tax-exempt groups. Read more <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/abcs-irs-mess-justice-dept-tainted/">here</a>.)
In January 2024, we filed<a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/fani-willis/"> a </a><a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/fani-willis/">lawsuit</a> against Fulton County, Georgia, for records regarding the hiring of Nathan Wade as a special prosecutor by District Attorney Fani Willis. Wade was hired to pursue unprecedented criminal investigations and prosecutions against former President Trump and others over the 2020 election disputes.
In October 2023, we <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/documents/jw-v-doj-fulton-co-complaint-03110/">sued</a> the DOJ for records and communications between the Office of U.S. Special Counsel Jack Smith and the Fulton County, Georgia, District Attorney’s office regarding requests/receipt of federal funding/assistance in the investigation of former President Trump and his 18 codefendants in the <a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/read-trump-georgia-indictment-text-document-pdf-copy-charges/">Fulton County indictment</a> of August 14, 2023. To date, the DOJ is refusing to confirm or deny the existence of records, claiming that to do so would interfere with enforcement proceedings. Judicial Watch’s litigation challenging this is continuing.
Through the New York Freedom of Information Law, in July 2023, we received the <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/bragg-paid-to-shut-down-house-judiciary-oversight-into-indictment-of-trump/">engagement letter</a> showing New York County District Attorney Alvin L. Bragg paid $900 per hour for partners and $500 per hour for associates to the Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher law firm for the purpose of suing Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) in an effort to shut down the House Judiciary Committee’s oversight investigation into Bragg’s unprecedented indictment of former President Donald Trump.
Be sure to check back for more developments in this Fani Willis lawsuit!
 
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Judicial Watch Sues California to Force Clean-Up of Voting Rolls
Judicial Watch is the national leader in ensuring the clean-up of voter registration rolls.
Your Judicial Watch just filed a historic <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/documents/jw-v-weber-ca-nvra-complaint-3750/">lawsuit</a> to force California to clean up its voter rolls. The lawsuit, filed on behalf of the Libertarian Party of California, asks the court to compel California to make “a reasonable effort to remove the registrations of ineligible registrants from the voter rolls” as required by federal law (<a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/documents/jw-v-weber-ca-nvra-complaint-3750/">Judicial Watch Inc. and the Libertarian Party of CA v. Shirley Weber et al.</a> (No. 2:24-cv-3750)).
We sued in the U.S. District Court for the Central District of California to compel the defendants to comply with their voter list maintenance obligations under Section 8 of the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA).
The <a href="https://www.justice.gov/crt/national-voter-registration-act-1993-nvra">National Voter Registration Act</a> requires states to “conduct a general program that makes a reasonable effort to remove” from the official voter rolls “the names of ineligible voters” who have died or changed residence. The law requires registrations to be canceled when voters fail to respond to address confirmation notices and then fail to vote in the next two general federal elections.
In 2018, the Supreme Court <a href="https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/17pdf/16-980_f2q3.pdf">confirmed</a> that such removals are mandatory. In February 2023, Los Angeles County<a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/lawsuit-forces-los-angeles-county-to-remove-1-2-million-ineligible-voters-from-rolls/%5D">confirmed</a> removal of 1,207,613 ineligible voters from its rolls since the year before, under the terms of a <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/california-begins-massive-voter-roll-clean-up-notifies-up-to-1-5-million-inactive-voters-as-part-of-judicial-watch-lawsuit-settlement/">settlement agreement</a> in a federal <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-sues-california-los-angeles-dirty-voter-registration-rolls/">lawsuit</a> we filed in 2017. (Legal pressure from Judicial Watch ultimately led to the <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/videos/update-4-million-names-cleaned-up-from-voter-rolls/">removal of up to four million</a> <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/videos/update-4-million-names-cleaned-up-from-voter-rolls/">ineligible voters</a> from voter rolls in New York, California, Pennsylvania, Colorado, North Carolina, Kentucky, Ohio, and elsewhere.)
Judicial Watch filed the latest lawsuit after <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/documents/nvra-ca-notice-of-violation-november-2023/">uncovering</a> a broad failure to clean up voter rolls in dozens of California counties.
The complaint details that, in correspondence with Judicial Watch, that California:
admit[ted] that 21 California counties removed five or fewer registrations pursuant to [the NVRA] … for failing to respond to a Confirmation Notice and then failing to vote in two general federal elections … from November 2020 to November 2022. Sixteen of the 21 counties removed zero such registrations during this period. The 21 counties are: Alameda (1 such removal), Alpine (0), Calaveras (0), Imperial (0), Lake (1), Modoc (0), Placer (0), Plumas (0), San Benito (0), San Bernardino (0), San Luis Obispo (5), San Mateo (0), Santa Barbara (0), Santa Cruz (0), Shasta (0), Siskiyou (2), Solano (0), Stanislaus (0), Trinity (0), Ventura (0), and Yolo (2).
Together, these 21 counties reported a combined total of 11 removals under Section 8(d)(1)(B) during this two-year reporting period.
The complaint notes that “these 21 counties contain about 22% of the population of California.” The lawsuit alleges that, in Judicial Watch’s experience “based on years of enforcing the NVRA,” there “is no possible way any county” with such “absurdly small” removal numbers can be complying with the NVRA’s requirement “to cancel the registrations of voters who have become ineligible because of a change of residence.” The complaint points out that about 11.6% of California residents move each year, and that in the last year for which data are available (2022) “about 818,000 California residents moved out of state.”
Our lawsuit also points out that another 16 California counties could not even “tell how many registrations were removed pursuant to [the NVRA] … The 16 counties are: Del Norte, El Dorado, Inyo, Kern, Lassen, Marin, Mendocino, Merced, Mono, Nevada, Orange, Riverside, San Joaquin, Santa Clara, Sonoma, and Tulare.” These 16 counties together “contain about 28% of the population of California.”
Dirty voting rolls can mean dirty elections. And California’s voting rolls continue to be a mess. Our litigation already caused the state to remove over a million outdated names from the rolls in California, but our new lawsuit shows there is more work to do.
As I noted above, Judicial Watch is a national leader in voting integrity and voting rights. As part of our work, we assembled a team of highly experienced voting rights attorneys who stopped discriminatory elections in Hawaii, and cleaned up voter rolls across the country, among <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/tag/nvra/">other achievements</a>.
Robert Popper, a Judicial Watch senior attorney, leads its election law program. Popper was previously in the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, where he managed voting rights investigations, litigations, consent decrees, and settlements in dozens of states.
In March 2023, we filed a federal <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/illinois-voting-rolls/">lawsuit</a> against the Illinois State Board of Elections and its Executive Director, Bernadette Matthews, over their failure to clean Illinois’ voter rolls and to produce election-related records as required by federal law.
Judicial Watch in February 2024 filed a civil rights <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/counting-ballots-after-election/">lawsuit</a> on behalf of the Libertarian Party of Mississippi, challenging a Mississippi election law permitting absentee ballots to be received as long as five business days after Election Day.
In December 2023, we sent <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/dc-removing-103000-ineligible-names/">notice letters</a> to election officials in the District of Columbia, California, and Illinois, notifying them of evident violations of the NVRA, based on their failure to remove inactive voters from their registration rolls. In response to Judicial Watch’s inquiries, Washington, D.C., officials admitted that they had not complied with the NVRA, promptly removed 65,544 outdated names from the voting rolls, promised to remove 37,962 more, and designated another 73,522 registrations as “inactive.”
In July 2023, we <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/maine-voter-registration-list/">filed</a> an amicus curiae (friend of the court) <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/documents/pilf-v-bellows-maine-nvra-amicus-1361/">brief</a>, supporting the <a href="https://casetext.com/case/pub-interest-legal-found-v-bellows-3">decision</a> of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maine, which struck down Maine’s policy restricting the use and distribution of the state’s voter registration list (<a href="https://dockets.justia.com/docket/circuit-courts/ca1/23-1361">Public Interest Legal Foundation v. Shenna Bellows</a> (No. 23-1361)). According to a <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/new-jw-study-voter-registration/">national study</a>conducted by Judicial Watch in 2020, Maine’s statewide registration rate was 101% of eligible voters.
In a separate lawsuit, in July 2023 we <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/illinois-settles-voter-roll-lawsuit/">settled</a> a federal election integrity lawsuit on behalf of the Illinois Conservative Union against the state of Illinois, the Illinois State Board of Elections, and its director, obtaining access to the current centralized statewide list of registered voters for the state.
In April 2023, Pennsylvania <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/pennsylvania-settles-voter-roll-lawsuit/">settled</a> with Judicial Watch and admitted in court filings that it removed 178,258 ineligible registrations in response to communications from Judicial Watch. The settlement commits Pennsylvania and five of its counties to public reporting of statistics regarding their ongoing voter roll clean-up efforts for the next five years.
In March 2023, Colorado <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/colorado-to-settle-lawsuit-over-ineligible-voters/">agreed</a> to settle our NVRA lawsuit alleging that Colorado failed to remove ineligible voters from its rolls. The settlement agreement requires Colorado to provide Judicial Watch with the most recent voter roll data for each Colorado county each year for six years.
We <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/jw-and-nyc-settle-lawsuit/">settled</a> a federal election integrity lawsuit against New York City after the city removed 441,083 ineligible names from the voter rolls and promised to take reasonable steps going forward to clean its voter registration lists.
<a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/press-releases/judicial-watch-victory-court-ordered-consent-decree-requires-kentucky-to-clean-up-election-rolls/">Kentucky</a> also removed hundreds of thousands of old registrations after it entered into a consent decree to end another Judicial Watch lawsuit.
In February 2022, we <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/north-carolina-voter-rolls-lawsuit/">settled</a> a voter roll clean-up lawsuit against North Carolina and two of its counties after North Carolina removed over 430,000 inactive registrations from its voter rolls.
In March 2022, a Maryland court <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/judicial-watch-victory-court-rules-against-gerrymander-in-maryland/">ruled in favor</a> of our challenge to the Democratic state legislature’s “extreme” congressional-districts gerrymander.
 
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Voicemail Shows FBI/Secret Service Coordination on Trump Raid 
Our Judicial Watch team received a concerning recording of a <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/documents/jw-v-dhs-secret-service-mar-a-lago-fbi-audio-03147/">phone message</a> left by an FBI special agent for someone at the Secret Service in the context of the raid on President Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.
The August 11, 2022, recording says:
Yes, hi, this is Special Agent [redacted] from FBI [unintelligible]. We met on Monday [the day of the raid]. We have a couple of specific follow-up asks of you, um, so give me a call so we can discuss that. My number is [redacted]. Again, my name is [redacted]. Thanks, bye.
The recording was uncovered in an October 2022 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/biden-raid-records/">lawsuit</a> against the Department of Homeland Security for all communications of the U.S. Secret Service internally and with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) regarding the raid on President Trump’s home and for any video or audio recordings made during the raid on August 8, 2022 (<a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/documents/jw-v-dhs-secret-service-mar-a-lago-complaint-03147/">Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S Department of Homeland Security</a> (No. 1:22-cv-03147)).
This recording is real-time evidence of the Biden administration’s whole government operation to abuse Trump by raiding his home. We will continue to piece together the details of the conspiracy to launch an unprecedented and malicious raid on the home of Biden’s chief political opponent.
Judicial Watch remains in the forefront of the court battles for transparency regarding the Biden administration’s targeting of Trump.
In March 2024, we <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/trumps-security-clearance/">sued</a> the U.S. Department of Energy for records about the retroactive termination of former President Donald Trump’s security clearance and/or access to classified information.
In August 2023, we filed a <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/trump-records-dispute/">lawsuit</a> against the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) for records of the Archives’ role in President Trump’s White House records controversy; whether it offered Trump a secure storage location other than the National Archives; and if the Archives consulted with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence regarding the classification or declassification procedures of any of the alleged classified documents found at Trump’s Florida residence.
In June 2023, we obtained <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/trumps-closed-circuit-video/">DOJ records</a> that showed top officials of the National Security Division discussing the political implications of Trump allowing CNN to use closed-circuit TV (CCTV) footage of the raid on his Mar-a-Lago home. The documents confirmed that the Justice Department had asked that Mar-a-Lago CCTV be turned off before the raid.
A separate Judicial Watch FOIA <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/trump-raid-records/">lawsuit</a> against the National Archives and Records Administration resulted in the release of records about the unprecedented document dispute between Archives and President Trump. Click <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/documents/categories/national-archives-mar-a-lago-records-categories-1-9/">here</a> or <a href="https://www.archives.gov/foia/15-boxes">here</a> to review the records.
In August 2022, we successfully <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/court-grants-jw-request-trump-affidavit/">sued to unseal</a> <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/trump-raid-affidavit-released/">the search warrant affidavit</a> used to justify the unprecedented raid on the home of former President Trump.
In September 2022, we <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/biden-raid-on-trump-home-records/">filed</a> lawsuits against the DOJ for its records and the FBI’s records about 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.
 
Until next week,
The post <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/new-lawsuit-to-clean-dirty-voter-rolls/">NEW Lawsuit to Clean Dirty Voter Rolls</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org">Judicial Watch</a>.
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<description><![CDATA[(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it received a recording of a phone message left by an FBI special agent for someone at the Secret Service in the context of the raid on President Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida. The August 11, 2022, recording says: Yes, hi, this is Special Agent [redacted] from […]
The post <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/raid-of-trumps-home/">Judicial Watch: Voicemail Recording Shows FBI and Secret Service Coordination on Raid of Trump’s Home</a> appeared first on <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org">Judicial Watch</a>.
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<content:encoded><![CDATA[(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that it received a recording of a <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/documents/jw-v-dhs-secret-service-mar-a-lago-fbi-audio-03147/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="0" data-ogsc="">phone message</a> left by an FBI special agent for someone at the Secret Service in the context of the raid on President Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago, Florida.
The August 11, 2022, recording says:
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Yes, hi, this is Special Agent [redacted] from FBI [unintelligible]. We met on Monday [the day of the raid]. We have a couple of specific follow-up asks of you, um, so give me a call so we can discuss that. My number is [redacted]. Again, my name is [redacted]. Thanks, bye.
The recording was uncovered in an October 2022 Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/biden-raid-records/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="1" data-ogsc="">lawsuit</a> against the Department of Homeland Security for all communications of the U.S. Secret Service internally and with the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) regarding the raid on President Trump’s home and for any video or audio recordings made during the raid on August 8, 2022 (<a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/documents/jw-v-dhs-secret-service-mar-a-lago-complaint-03147/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="2" data-ogsc="">Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S Department of Homeland Security</a> (No. 1:22-cv-03147)).
“This recording is real-time evidence of the Biden administration’s whole government operation to abuse Trump by raiding his home. Judicial Watch will continue to piece together the details of the conspiracy to launch an unprecedented and malicious raid on the home of Biden’s chief political opponent,” Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton said. 
Judicial Watch is in the forefront of the court battles for transparency regarding Biden administration’s targeting of Trump. 
In March 2024, Judicial Watch <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/trumps-security-clearance/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="3" data-ogsc="">sued</a> the U.S. Department of Energy for records about the retroactive termination of former President Donald Trump’s security clearance and/or access to classified information.
In August 2023, Judicial Watch filed<a name="x_x__Int_wcRAgs3O"></a> a <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/trump-records-dispute/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="4" data-ogsc="">lawsuit</a> against the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) for records of the Archives’ role in President Trump’s White House records controversy; whether it offered Trump a secure storage location other than the National Archives; and if the Archives consulted with the Office of the Director of National Intelligence regarding the classification or declassification procedures of any of the alleged classified documents found at Trump’s Florida residence.
In June 2023, Judicial Watch obtained <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/trumps-closed-circuit-video/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="5" data-ogsc="">DOJ records</a> that showed top officials of the National Security Division discussing the political implications of Trump allowing CNN to use closed-circuit TV (CCTV) footage of the raid on his Mar-a-Lago home. The documents confirmed that the Justice Department had asked that Mar-a-Lago CCTV be turned off before the raid.
A separate Judicial Watch FOIA <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/trump-raid-records/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="6" data-ogsc="">lawsuit</a> against the National Archives and Records Administration resulted in the release of records about the unprecedented document dispute between Archives and President Trump. Click <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/documents/categories/national-archives-mar-a-lago-records-categories-1-9/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="7" data-ogsc="">here</a> or <a href="https://www.archives.gov/foia/15-boxes" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="8" data-ogsc="">here</a> to review the records.
In August 2022, Judicial Watch successfully <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/court-grants-jw-request-trump-affidavit/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="9" data-ogsc="">sued to unseal</a> <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/trump-raid-affidavit-released/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="10" data-ogsc="">the search warrant affidavit</a> used to justify the unprecedented raid on the home of former President Trump.
In September 2022, Judicial Watch <a href="https://www.judicialwatch.org/biden-raid-on-trump-home-records/" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer" data-auth="NotApplicable" data-linkindex="11" data-ogsc="">filed</a> lawsuits against the DOJ for its records and the FBI’s records about 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.
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