HISTORIC ELECTION: President Trump Needs to Clean House

HISTORIC ELECTION:  President Trump Needs to Clean House
Judicial Watch Sues Garland Justice Department Over Election Robocall Controversy
Obama Judge Says Military Must Cover Gender Transition Surgery
Happy Veterans Day!

HISTORIC ELECTION:  President Trump Needs to Clean House

Judicial Watch congratulates President Trump on his remarkable election as 47th president of the United States. The voters broadly and directly repudiated the lawfare targeting Trump, as well as the dangerous government abuses and contempt for the rule of law endemic here in Washington, DC.

President Trump had to overcome unprecedented abuse by corrupt and partisan prosecutors, politicians and judges – all of whom tried to rig the election by smearing, raiding, investigating, prosecuting, trying, convicting, and gagging President Trump.

In short, President Trump needs to clean house. The FBI and Justice Department are irredeemably corrupt. And the government abusers who targeted Trump and other innocent Americans should be subjected to criminal investigation. And, as sunlight is the best disinfectant, President Trump should open wide the Deep State files on politicized Deep State lies and corruption – especially its war on the rule of law, constitutional government, our First Amendment and other civil rights.

We are ready, willing and able to help (and sue) for government accountability as we continue our mission to uncover what the government is up to and enforce the rule of law for election integrity, immigration, and against woke discrimination and racism.

In my new book Rights and Freedoms in Peril I detail a long chain of abuses officials and politicians have made against the American people and call readers to battle for “the soul and survival of America.” The book details how the progressive movement threatens America’s most venerable institutions, undermining the core principles that make this country a beacon of hope to the world.

Through open records laws, we frequently request records from the government and sue when it refuses to release them. For example:

• Recently, we uncovered records from the Department of Homeland Security which show, contrary to what it told the media, that least one U.S. Secret Service agent broke in to a hair salon and taped over the salon’s security camera in Pittsfield, MA, during a July 27, 2024, campaign fundraising visit by Vice President Kamala Harris.
• In October, we sued on behalf of Stand Together Against Racism and Radicalism in the Services, Inc. (STARRS) against the U.S. Department of Defense for records regarding the U.S. Air Force Academy’s diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) plans.
• In August, we received records from the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA – a component of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)) revealing that CISA is trolling on social media and reporting on alleged “domestic violent extremism” (DVE).
• In May, we reported on 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 U.S. Department of Justice is asking a federal court to allow the agency to keep secret the names of top staffers working in Special Counsel Jack Smith’s office that has been targeting President Donald Trump and other Americans.

Let’s hope we enter a pro-transparency and anti-corruption era under the new Trump administration.  You can be sure that Judicial Watch will remain front and center in these battles either way!

Judicial Watch Sues Garland Justice Department Over Election Robocall Controversy

I don’t trust the Justice Department.

Judicial Watch just had to file a FOIA lawsuit against the Department of Justice for records regarding the Justice Department’s involvement in the League of Women Voters’ National Voting Rights Act lawsuit concerning fake Biden robocalls conducted during New Hampshire primary (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:24-cv-03109)).

We sued after the Department of Justice failed to respond to a September 24, 2024, FOIA request for:

Records of the Office of Legal Counsel, including emails, text messages, voicemail messages, video conferences, briefings, notes, or other form of record regarding the Voting Rights Act (52 U.S.C. § 10307(b)); robocalls; Steve Kramer; Lingo Telecom, LLC; Voice Broadcasting Corporation; or Life Corporation.

In February, during this year’s presidential primary season in New Hampshire, an elections consultant, Steve Kramer, commissioned a fake robocall using artificial intelligence (AI) to impersonate Joe Biden’s voice to urge New Hampshire voters not to participate in the state’s January 23 primary. New Hampshire’s attorney general charged Kramer with 13 felony counts of voter suppression and 13 misdemeanor counts of impersonation of a candidate.

Subsequently, the League of Women Voters filed a lawsuit against Kramer and other firms involved in the fake call.

The Biden Justice Department clearly has something to hide. Was there selective prosecution and collusion with allied leftist groups as a favor to the Biden-Harris campaign?  You can expect many more lawsuits and investigations to uncover the full truth about this thoroughly corrupt Justice Department.

Obama Judge Says Military Must Cover Gender Transition Surgery

Can you imagine what General George Washington’s response would be to what is going on in our military today? Our Corruption Chronicles blog looks at the gender madness “encouraged” by an Obama judicial appointee.

The U.S. military’s health insurance plan is discriminatory and violates Equal Protection rights under the Fifth Amendment of the United States Constitution by failing to cover costly gender transition surgeries, an Obama-appointed federal judge ruled days ago. Two transgender women sued the Department of Defense (DOD), the U.S. Defense Health Agency, Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III and the agency’s Tricare Health Plan over a provision that bans surgical coverage of procedures that improve physical appearance without a significant restoration of functions, including “sex gender changes.” The biological males, who want to be female, claim in their lawsuit that denying coverage of medically necessary gender transition surgeries violates their Constitutional Equal Protection rights, a guarantee that requires the government “to treat alike all persons similarly situated.”

In court documents the plaintiffs are identified as Jane Doe and Susan Roe and they receive health insurance through Tricare as dependents of former service members. The health plan covers more than 9.6 million active-duty servicemembers, retirees, and their families providing services at military hospitals and clinics around the world as well as a civilian network of providers. Tricare offers transgender patients services that include hormone therapy and psychological counseling for gender dysphoria, which is identified as “psychological distress that results from an incongruence between one’s sex assigned at birth and one’s gender identity.” However, it does not cover surgery for the treatment of gender dysphoria, the insurance plan’s website states, adding that active-duty service members may request a waiver for “medically necessary gender affirming surgery.”

The transgender plaintiffs in this case have both received at least one surgery to treat gender dysphoria and say they will need more surgeries in the future. One has been enrolled in Tricare since 2002 and the other since 2023 and both “were assigned male at birth and have female gender identities,” according to the recently issued ruling. Neither procedure was paid for by Tricare, but the men took legal action to get the military insurance to cover future surgeries by claiming its policy discriminates based on sex and transgender status. An Obama-appointed federal judge in Maine, Nancy Torresen, agreed, writing in her decision that the exclusion violates the Constitution’s Equal Protection clause because it “expressly excludes sex gender changes from Tricare coverage.” Furthermore, Judge Torresen writes that gender transition surgery is not “cosmetic,” but rather “medically necessary” because the goal is to effectively treat a serious medical condition not enhance beauty or appearance. “In other words, surgery treats gender dysphoria by addressing the incongruence between a transgender person’s anatomy and their immutable brain-based gender identity,” according to the judge.

The 28-page ruling provides detailed information about gender identity and dysphoria and cites standards of care issued by an international nonprofit, World Professional Association for Transgender Health (WPATH), considered to be an authority on the issue. The misalignment between gender identity and birth sex, known as “gender incongruence,” means a transgender person feels “wrongly embodied” due to their anatomy, the ruling explains, adding that it may be medically necessary for the health and wellbeing of some transgender people to take steps to live consistently with their gender identity. “If untreated, gender incongruence may lead to gender dysphoria, which can be a serious medical condition,” Torresen’s ruling states. The judge also writes that WPATH considers medically necessary treatment for people with gender dysphoria to range from hormone therapies to surgical procedures that include chest reconstruction, facial feminization, and genital reconstruction. Torresen points out that the same procedures also treat conditions other than gender dysphoria. “For example, mastectomies, hysterectomies, salpingo-oophorectomies, and orchiectomies can treat cancer, and genital reconstruction may be performed after removing a patient’s genitalia due to cancer, injury, or infection,” she writes.

Happy Veterans Day!

We would not have the great nation we have without the men and women who sacrificed to defend it, and so it is fitting that every year on November 11 we honor them.

That date was set in November 1919, when President Wilson proclaimed November 11 as the first commemoration of Armistice Day with the following words:

“To us in America, the reflections of Armistice Day will be filled with solemn pride in the heroism of those who died in the country’s service and with gratitude for the victory, both because of the thing from which it has freed us and because of the opportunity it has given America to show her sympathy with peace and justice in the councils of the nations…”

We join all Americans in saluting our veterans – especially our many veterans on staff here at Judicial Watch!  God bless them and God bless America!

Until next week,