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Judicial Watch Senior Attorneys Testify before Congress on Election Integrity and Reform
Judicial Watch Sues for Records of Critical Race Theory Training at West Point
New VA Records Document CRT Wording in Vaccine Plan
‘Temporary’ Reprieve Extended for Five Groups of Illegal Immigrants
Border Patrol Agent Helps Smuggle Illegal Immigrant, Drugs Through Texas Checkpoint
Judicial Watch Senior Attorneys Testify before Congress on Election Integrity and Reform
Judicial Watch is and has been a national leader in defending the rule of law – especially in election integrity. This leadership is evident in the remarkable news that, this week, two of our voting law experts testified to both House and Senate committees on pending legislation that could gut free and fair elections.
Senior Attorney Robert Popper testified before the U.S. House Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties during a hearing titled “The Implications of Brnovich v. Democratic National Committee and Potential Legislative Responses.” Bob leads our election law efforts and his fully prepared statement is available on our website . You can watch the hearing here .
Senior Attorney T. Russell Nobile testified on the same topic before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee’s Subcommittee on the Constitution in a hearing titled “Restoring the Voting Rights Act after Brnovich and Shelby County.” His remarks are available here and you can watch the testimony here.
The ostensible purpose of that hearings was to consider whether congressional action is called for in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s 2013 landmark ruling in Shelby County v. Holder (570 U.S. 529) and its recent ruling in Mark Brnovich, Attorney General of Arizona, et al. v. Democratic National Committee, et al . (Nos. 19-1257 & 1258).
In Shelby , the court rejected forcing states to be under the thumb of the DOJ based upon voting/race data from the 1960s. The court struck down Section 4(b) of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 (VRA), which provided the “coverage formula” that determines which states and local governments are subject to a preclearance requirement under Section 5. Section 4(b) required certain states and local governments to obtain a predetermination by the United States Attorney General or a three-judge panel of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia affirming that changes to their voting laws or practices do not “deny or abridge the right to vote on account of race, color, or membership in a language minority group” before those changes could be enforced.
In Brnovic h , the court considered two Arizona election policies, one outlawing ballot harvesting and the other banning out-of-precinct voting. The court ruled that neither of these election policies violated the Voting Rights Act nor had a racially discriminatory purpose. We joined with Allied Educational Foundation (AEF) to file an amici curiae (friends of the court) brief in this case, arguing that the parties challenging Arizona’s clean election laws “utterly failed” to show that the challenged voting procedure caused minorities to have less opportunity to participate in the political process and to elect representatives of their choice. The court agreed.
Reacting to the court’s ruling in Brnovich, I called the court’s decision “a home run for cleaner elections, reaffirming that states may take action to prevent election fraud without waiting for it to occur within their own borders. This new decision rightly rejects the race-baiting of the leftist partisans who pretend that neutral provisions to combat voter fraud (such as voter ID and bans on ballot harvesting) are presumptively racist. The decision also destroys the foundation of the Biden administration’s recent attack on Georgia’s election reform laws.”
For more than 25 years, we have been known for our aggressive, leading-edge use of public records laws and lawsuits, as well as taxpayer, civil rights and whistleblower protection litigation to fight government corruption. We are a national leader in voting integrity and voting rights. As part of this effort, we assembled a team of highly experienced voting rights attorneys who have fought gerrymandering in Maryland, stopped discriminatory elections in Hawaii, and cleaned up voter rolls in California, Ohio, Indiana, and Kentucky, among other achievements .
In his prepared remarks, Popper notes:
One hears—and large news outlets dutifully report—that there is a “tsunami” of legislation “restricting the right to vote,” that states reforming their mail-in voting laws as COVID retreats are engaged in “voter suppression,” and even that these actions represent “the new Jim Crow.” These claims are preposterous. At best, they reveal a startling historical ignorance. The grandfather laws, absurd literacy tests, poll taxes, intimidation and terroristic violence of the Jim Crow era have nothing whatever to do with, say, Ohio’s restriction of early voting from 35 to 29 days, or with limiting same-day registration. Nor do they have anything to do with regulating absentee ballots, out-of-precinct voting, or voter ID requirements, all reasonable electoral integrity measures approved by the Carter-Baker Commission.
At worst, these statements reveal a startling cynicism, driven by a desire to inflame passions—and to raise funds. Those who talk this way are being irresponsible.
In his testimony, Nobile provided historical evidence :
Data, not pop culture nor hyperbole from those that oppose race-neutral election integrity laws, tells the true story of ballot access in America. To objectively evaluate whether racial minorities have an equal opportunity to participate in the electoral process, you must look at racial registration and turnout data. Looking at the most recent data, the opportunity to participate is exponentially better now than it was in 1965. Based on this data, it is hard to contend that Section 5 needs to be expanded as proposed in H.R. 4. Registration.
Current data shows that black registration has completely rebounded and, in some instances, exceeds White registration rates. In fact, the data shows that eight years after Shelby County, registration disparities in Texas, Florida, North Carolina, Louisiana, and Mississippi – all previously covered (in whole or part) by Section 5 – are all below the national average. In fact, black registration in Mississippi is 4.3% higher than White registration. Registration disparities in these former Section 5 states are lower than the disparities in California, New York, Connecticut, D.C., Delaware, and Virginia. In fact, the four biggest registration disparities, i.e., where White registration most exceeds black registration, are found in Massachusetts, Wisconsin, Oregon, and Colorado, all of which President Biden won in 2020.
The specifics of the legislation aside, the Left and its partisan allies are engaged in a cynical, race-baiting assault on free and fair elections. Judicial Watch is in federal court, in the public square – and before Congress – to educate and litigate on your behalf to protect our election system from this dangerous assault.
Judicial Watch Sues for Records of Critical Race Theory Training at West Point
Our military classrooms are being invaded by Marxist nonsense. And we’re taking action. We just filed a FOIA lawsuit against the Department of Defense for all records related to diversity, inclusion, and equity training for first-year cadets entering West Point ( Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Defense (No. 1:21-cv-01795)).
We sued after the United States Military Academy failed to respond to an April 6, 2021, FOIA request seeking:
In April, Congressman Mike Waltz (R-Fl), a West Point graduate, made public “examples of Corps of Cadets being mandated to attend seminars and presentations on critical race theory that included inflammatory lessons and presentations that are detrimental to the mission and morale of the U.S. Army.”
In a public letter to the superintendent of the U.S. Military Academy at West Point, Waltz demanding information about the mandated critical race theory training for cadets:
Information has recently come to my attention from unsettled soldiers, cadets, and families that raises serious concerns about the U.S. Army’s introduction of elements of critical race theory into cadet instruction…In February this year, I understand the U.S. Military Academy under your leadership required cadets to attend a mandatory seminar on “Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion.” According to the schedule I received, cadets ‘MUST attend at least one of the seminars.
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I was provided a presentation slide from one of the workshops with the title of ‘White Power at West Point’ and ‘Racist Dog Whistles at West Point.’ Additionally, another presentation slide shared with me depicted a lecture by Dr. Carol Anderson of Emory University with the title “Understanding Whiteness and White Rage.”
Critical race theory is racist, anti-American, and repackaged Marxism. It has no place in our military, let alone the storied heights of West Point. The Pentagon needs to immediately follow the FOIA law so the American people can fully understand and stop the extremist indoctrination of the U.S. Army’s rising leadership at West Point.
New VA Records Document CRT Wording in Vaccine Plan
Off the Wall Ping!
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No doubt the Marxists plan to deploy the Military against non-compliant citizens.
Hey, jaz!
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The new democrats want officers that will fire on citizens when they are ordered to kill us.
Bump!
Hiya my FRiend!
No doubt about it in my view.
Most people are smart enough to know CRT is just Crap and it will be in one ear and out the other
I thought most people would know you can’t stop a respiratory virus with a cheap piece of cloth too, yet look what happened.
The extraordinary success of Asians, who are on par or even exceed the socioeconomic status of whites, is proof that the myths of systemic racism and white privilege are pure b.s.
Bkmk
A way to use they color of the military against its white civilian suppressors
“Most people are smart enough to know CRT is just Crap and it will be in one ear and out the other”
The operative word is Most. But, not all will realize and resist. In fact, many leftists are encouraged to join based on their predecessor’s success in infiltrating and corrupting our military. The Left, like the Islamists, has the Long Plan.
They will take a chunk if the opportunity presents but, they are more than willing to succeed via incrementalism. Most Conservatives do not seem to have the willingness or ability to perceive this fact and carry out sustained opposition. After some time most Conservatives give up the fight and resort to fatalism. There is plenty of evidence of this here on Freerepublic.
If we’re going to teach CRT Commie crap to our future officers why the hell not just dissolve the military?
Who do they think we’re fighting?
General Woke Milley all ready for the weekend
https://twitter.com/RealPatriot56/status/1416147492941570049
A national disgrace!
“Most people are smart enough to know CRT is just Crap and it will be in one ear and out the other”
Just like 90% of the rest of the “mandatory” BS.
What Benedict Arnold didn’t get away with, the Democrat Party finally does.
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