Tag Archives: Tom Fitton

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 …

The Washington Post report: The claims of voter fraud were false, proved untrue by public data and the state’s top election official. That didn’t stop them from going viral, as right-wing activists took to Twitter over the weekend to spread specious allegations of trickery in Iowa’s first-in-the-nation caucuses. The episode showcased the perils of conducting elections in the age of …

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 …

“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, …