Posted on 07/10/2020 3:28:36 PM PDT by jazusamo
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Judicial Watch and Daily Caller News Foundation Sue for Joe Biden’s Senate Records at University of Delaware
The New Judicial Watch Book: ‘A Republic Under Assault,’ is Available for Pre-Order
Victory: Court Rules Corporate Gender Quota Lawsuit May Go Forward
Good news! A California court authorized our taxpayer lawsuit to move forward against a California law that mandates gender quotas for corporate boards. The court held that our clients have standing to sue under state law, and our attorneys will now proceed to discovery, including depositions of various officials.
This action comes in the case ( Robin Crest et al. v. Alex Padilla (No.19ST-CV-27561). We filed the lawsuit on August 6, 2019, on behalf of three California taxpayers to prevent the State from implementing Senate Bill 826. The 2018 law requires publicly held corporations headquartered in California to have at least one director “who self-identifies her gender as a woman” on their boards by December 31, 2019. Up to three such persons are required by December 31, 2021, depending on the size of the board.
Our lawsuit alleges that the mandate is an unconstitutional gender-based quota. In our complaint we argue:
SB 826 is illegal under the California Constitution. The legislation’s quota system for female representation on corporate boards employs express gender classifications. As a result, SB 826 is immediately suspect and presumptively invalid and triggers strict scrutiny review.
Even before the bill passed, a California Assembly floor analysis identified a “significant risk of legal challenges” to SB 826. It characterized the legislation as creating a “quota-like system” and noted:
[T]his bill, if enacted into law, would likely be challenged on equal protection grounds … The use of a quota-like system, as proposed by this bill, to remedy past discrimination and differences in opportunity may be difficult to defend.”
In signing SB 826 in September 2018, then-Governor Brown wrote that, “serious legal concerns have been raised” to the legislation. “I don’t minimize the potential flaws that indeed may prove fatal to its ultimate implementation.” He signed the bill anyway, noting, “Nevertheless, recent events in Washington, D.C. – and beyond – make it crystal clear that many are not getting the message.”
Currently, 625 publicly traded corporations are headquartered in California and are subject to the legislation’s provisions. In a March 2020 report the secretary of state identified 282 corporations that reported compliance with the law’s requirements.
We are pleased that the court saw through California’s flimsy claim that taxpayers had no standing to sue to stop this brazenly unconstitutional gender-quota law. Even Gov. Brown, in signing the law, worried that it is unconstitutional. Our California taxpayer clients are stepping up to make sure that California’s Constitution, which prohibits sex discrimination, is upheld.
Judicial Watch and Daily Caller News Foundation Sue for Joe Biden’s Senate Records at University of Delaware
We filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit on behalf of the Daily Caller News Foundation against the University of Delaware for former Vice President Biden’s Senate records, which are housed at the university’s library ( Daily Caller News Foundation v. University of Delaware (No. N20A-07-001)). We sued in the Superior Court of the State of Delaware.
Judicial Watch and the Daily Caller filed requests on April 30 for all of Biden’s records and for records about the preservation and any proposed release of the records, including communications with Mr. Biden or his representatives. The university said it would not release the records until two years after Biden has retired from public life.
Our April 30, 2020, FOIA request seeks:
On April 30, the Daily Caller News Foundation submitted its FOIA request to the University seeking:
On May 20, the University denied the Daily Caller News Foundation’s request.
In response to both requests, the University claimed, without corroboration, that public funds are not used to support the Joseph R. Biden, Jr. Senatorial Papers.
Tara Reade, who has accused Biden of sexually assaulting her in 1993 when she worked as a staff assistant to the then-senator, has said that she believes a workplace discrimination and harassment complaint she filed against Biden at the time may be in the records housed at the University of Delaware. Biden also admitted to communicating with Vladimir Putin and other foreign leaders when he was a United State Senator.
“The University of Delaware should do the right thing and turn over Joe Biden’s public records as required by law,” Daily Caller News Foundation Co-Founder and President Neil Patel said. “Partisan gamesmanship by a public university is unseemly and unlawful. If they don’t want to do the right thing, we will force them in court.”
He’s right. The University of Delaware should stop protecting Joe Biden and provide the public access to his public records, as Delaware law requires.
The New Judicial Watch Book: ‘A Republic Under Assault,’ is Available for Pre-Order
Let’s hope we have another New York Timesbestseller on our hands here: “A Republic Under Assault, the Left’s Ongoing Attack on American Freedom” is now available for pre-order ( https://www.judicialwatchbook.com/ ).
My first two bestselling books, “ The Corruption Chronicles ” and “ Clean House ,” exposed the hypocrisy and corruption of Obama’s two terms. In this latest book I identify the four major forces posing a continued threat to American democracy.
Subversive Deep State collaborators with ties to the Clinton and Obama machines not only launched countless—often illegal—operations to stop and then remove Trump, but even more alarmingly, are working to transform the United States into something truly unrecognizable to all who believe in liberty and the rule of law.
Todayone of their main targets is President Donald J. Trump.
Tomorrowit could be you and anyone who believes in the US Constitution, believes the United States must have clearly defined and protected borders, believes in the need for a strong military, believes in the value of hard work and faith, and believes in the rule of law and American exceptionalism.
“A Republic Under Assault” will be published by Threshold Editions on October 20, 2020. Learn more here.
Until next week …
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Politicians who sign bills they know to be unconstitutional should be imprisoned once a Court so rules.
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I love it when conservatives declare victory when they DO get permission to go to court. We are pretty desperate if that is the case.
JW does great work. Fine people.
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