Tag Archives: Judicial Watch

The Daily Beast reports: Right-wing pundit and Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton has been banned from TikTok, the short video-sharing platform. He now joins the likes of fellow right-wing activist Roger Stone, who was also banned last year. “This account was banned due to multiple Community Guidelines violations,” a notice reads on Fitton’s now blank user profile. “Well, the communists …

Vanity Fair reports: Judicial Watch announces that it has filed a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for “records of communication between Secret Service officials assigned to the White House regarding the Biden family dogs.” The suit was filed after the Secret Service, which Judicial Watch apparently thinks has nothing better to do, “failed to process records in …

Fox News reports: The Supreme Court on Monday left in place a lower court order that blocked the conservative group Judicial Watch from deposing former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about her use of a private email account in a lawsuit related to the 2012 attack on the US consulate in Benghazi, Libya. A federal appeals court ruled last August …

Law & Crime reports: The full panel of judges on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia on Wednesday rejected a request to revisit whether Hillary Clinton is required to answer questions about her use of a private server during her tenure as secretary of state. None of the ten circuit judges participating in the matter requested …

The Hill reports: The White House announced Friday that President Trump intends to appoint prominent conservative activist Tom Fitton to a judicial oversight agency that would grant him the power to unseat judges in Washington, D.C.,’s judiciary. Trump will tap Fitton to join the D.C. Commission on Judicial Disabilities and Tenure. Fitton heads the group Judicial Watch, and has advocated …

Politico reports: A federal appeals court panel has unanimously overturned a lower-court order requiring Hillary Clinton to provide a sworn deposition about her use of a private email account and server during her four years as secretary of State. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled, 3-0, that the conservative group Judicial Watch was not entitled to depose Clinton in …

The Daily Beast reports: Tom Fitton, the president of conservative legal advocacy group Judicial Watch, announced this week that his organization would be suing the National Institutes of Health in an effort to obtain Fauci’s communications about the coronavirus with the World Health Organization. Judicial Watch is seeking the records on behalf of the Daily Caller News Foundation, the right-leaning …

Law & Crime reports: A federal court on Monday ruled that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton must sit for a deposition where she will be questioned on matters relating to her use of a private server during her time at the State Department. The ruling from the United States District Court for the District of Columbia was issued in …

Newsweek reports: A guest on Fox News has suggested that Mitch McConnell uses his “prerogative” as Senate Majority Leader to change the rules and prevent President Donald Trump from undergoing an impeachment trial. Thomas Fitton, president of Judicial Watch, a right-wing political activist group, told Fox News’ Jeanine Pirro on Saturday that McConnell should implement what is known as the …

The Daily Beast reports: President Donald Trump has been a financial windfall for a number of political organizations that identify closely with his brand. And few have benefited more in the Trump era than the legal-advocacy group Judicial Watch. Newly released financial records show contributions to Judicial Watch nearly doubled from 2015 to 2018. Last year, the group took in …

“We’ve got tens of millions of aliens both legally and unlawfully present, and the idea that they A, don’t register to vote and then B, vote is just ludicrous. So there’s a large number of aliens who are illegally voting, it’s pretty clear, numbers in Texas have borne that out, numbers in Pennsylvania have borne that out. And, you know, …

The Washington Examiner reports: President Trump questioned Saturday morning why the FBI had not provided conservative watchdog group Judicial Watch and others with text messages of former Deputy FBI Director Andrew McCabe, warning he “may have to get involved.” Andrew McCabe’s wife, Jill McCabe, accepted thousands of dollars in donations for a Virginia state Senate election in 2015 from a …

The anti-gay Judicial Watch has filed a Freedom Of Information lawsuit against the Department Of Justice, demanding to know how much the DOJ paid Melissa Etheridge to appear at a June gay pride-related event attended by hundreds of DOJ lawyers.  Here’s their press release: Judicial Watch has sued the United States Department of Justice for refusing to turn over information …

The anti-gay Judicial Watch and the Family Research Council have filed a lawsuit against the Department of Justice, demanding that the DOJ release all internal documents and emails relating to the decision to stop defending DOMA. Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton: “You know, they made this decision, and based on the timing of certain court filings it looks like it …

A lawsuit has been filed with the Supreme Court charging that Hillary Clinton is ineligible to serve as Secretary of State because as a Senator she had voted to increase the salary of the position she now holds. The litigants claim that vote, made in 2007, is forbidden by an arcane clause of the U.S. Constitution. Before Clinton was confirmed, …