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Judicial Watch announced recently that a California court has found California’s gender quota law for corporate boards unconstitutional. The verdict comes after a 28-day trial. The verdict follows a similar ruling in Judicial Watch’s favor last month finding California’s diversity mandate for corporate boards unconstitutional.
“It is incredible, in this day and age, that it took a federal civil rights lawsuit to force Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot to retreat from her racial discrimination against reporters,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.
U.S. Census Bureau Keeps Hiring “Unsuitable Individuals” with Criminal Records
Thirteen years after a federal investigation blasted the U.S. Census Bureau for hiring criminals to enter American homes to gather statistics for the decennial count, a new audit reveals the disturbing practice continues. In fact, more than a decade after the problem was exposed workers for the 2020 count were not properly vetted and many with criminal records had direct interactions with the public.
Historic Judicial Watch Gerrymander Win Could Set National Precedent
The judge was not pulling any punches. Siding with Judicial Watch in a challenge to a congressional redistricting plan cooked up by Democrats dominating the Maryland state legislature, Judge Lynne Battaglia—herself a Democrat—threw haymakers. The Democrat redistricting map was an “extreme partisan gerrymander.” Democrats had attempted to “suppress the voice of Republican voters.” It was drawn up with “partisanship as predominant intent.” It violated state constitutional provisions on equal protection and free speech. It subordinated “constitutional criteria to political consideration.”
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The Daily Caller: Judge Delivers Fatal Blow To California’s Board Diversity Mandate
Duffy-Lewis’ decision comes in response to a challenge to the mandate from conservative activist group Judicial Watch, which was representing three California residents, according to The Wall Street Journal. Judicial Watch president Tom Fitton stated that the law was “brazenly unconstitutional.”
The Daily Caller: VICTORY: Lori Lightfoot Abandons Racist Interview Policy After DCNF Lawsuit
The lawsuit, which was filed by Judicial Watch in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Illinois, Eastern Division, alleged that Lightfoot’s denial violated Catenacci’s right to equal protection under the Fourteenth Amendment as well as his and TheDCNF’s First Amendment rights.
The New York Post: Trial opens in Trump-Russia case of Hillary Clinton’s ‘Alfa Bank’ lawyer
Special Counsel John Durham’s three-year probe into the FBI and Robert Mueller’s investigations of former President Donald Trump’s 2016 presidential campaign will reach a critical moment with Monday’s trial of former Hillary Clinton campaign lawyer Michael Sussmann.