Judicial Watch Victory: Court Orders Partial Release of Trump Raid Affidavit!
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Court Grants Judicial Watch Request: Orders Partial Release of Trump Raid Affidavit
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton made the following statement regarding today’s release of the Trump raid warrant materials by the Biden Justice Department: We’re pleased Judicial Watch legal pressure forced the partial release of warrant materials about the Biden administration’s political raid on the home of former President Trump. Judicial Watch expects and demands the underlying warrant affidavit and other materials be immediately disclosed. The U.S. Constitution and federal law give unreviewable authority to President Trump to take whatever records he wishes at the end of his presidency. The Biden administration’s dishonest depiction of personal records of President Trump it illicitly seized during the raid as “classified” is further demonstration that the raid was a brazen act of raw political abuse.
Judicial Watch announced today that it is providing legal representation to Megan Brock, a parent who is being sued by Bucks County, PA, to prevent the release of documents she requested under the commonwealth’s Right-to-Know Law that are related to COVID restrictions and the re-opening of the county’s schools.
Judicial Watch achieved a key court victory today over the Biden Justice Department’s desperate move to keep the Trump warrant affidavit completely sealed. The court outright rejected the Justice Department’s brazen play to keep the whole document secret. The Biden administration’s unprecedented and abusive raid on Trump’s home has created a rule of law crisis that can only be alleviated with transparency and accountability. And, we’re thrilled that Americans will get more of both with today’s court decision, finding that at least some more information about this terrible raid should be released.
Judicial Watch Asks Court to Reject Biden DOJ Request to Keep Trump Raid Affidavit Under Seal
The Justice Department was ordered by Magistrate Judge Bruce Reinhart to respond last week to Judicial Watch’s Motion to Unseal the warrant and supporting materials behind the FBI raid of President Donald Trump’s home in Mar-a-Lago. In its filing, the Justice Department alleged that releasing the affidavit would “cause significant and irreparable damage” to its ongoing criminal investigation.
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Fox News: FBI raid: Albany Times Union, Judicial Watch request release of Mar-a-Lago search warrant
The Albany Times Union newspaper and Judicial Watch have separately asked the federal magistrate to publicly release the search warrant tied to the FBI raid on former President Trump’s Mar-a-Lago residence.
The FBI executed the search warrant of Trump’s Palm Beach property on Monday in what the former president characterized as an “unannounced raid” on his home.
Newsmax: Tom Fitton to Newsmax: FBI Raid ‘Wild Abuse of Power’
Tom Fitton, the president of Judicial Watch, a think tank that investigates government corruption, doesn’t believe the Department of Justice’s reported claims of former President Donald Trump potentially violating the “Espionage Act of 1917” will have much staying power, from a criminality perspective.
Judicial Watch: Hundreds of Afghans on Terror Watchlist Released in U.S., Says DOD Whistleblower
Hundreds of unvetted Afghan refugees released in the United States by the Biden administration are on a Department of Defense (DOD) watchlist of suspected and known terrorists, according to a Pentagon whistleblower. The database is known as Biometrically Enabled Watchlist (BEWL), and it identifies individuals whose unique physical characteristics have been flagged by analysts to be national security threats.