President Trump is off to a fast start with a battering ram of executive orders aimed at the issues central to his promises to the American people: the border, the economy, the woke oligarchy, and national security. Nowhere are the stakes—for the president and the country—higher than in national security. Trump has pledged to take[…]
Read MorePundits and historians will be a long time sorting out the magnitude of Donald Trump’s electoral victory but one thing already is clear: Trump not only triumphed in the presidential contest, he also won the lawfare war. The latter—a victory for the constitutional foundation of the country —may prove as consequential as the former. “Lawfare”[…]
Read MoreWith the race for the presidency hurtling to the finish line, Judicial Watch will dispatch an election integrity team to Wisconsin to help ensure free and fair elections. Wisconsin is a critical swing state with a history of tumultuous electoral contests. “Judicial Watch’s teams will monitor the election in Wisconsin to expose and deter any[…]
Read MoreWith the presidential contest in the home stretch, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton is out today with a timely new book that devotes a lot of space to electoral duplicity in pursuit of power. But the problem is bigger than elections alone, Tom warns. America’s constitutional republic is in crisis. Tom credits the collaborative efforts[…]
Read MoreThe world will quickly be getting to know presumptive Democratic Party presidential nominee Kamala Harris. Her long relationship—personal and political—with the scandal-scarred California power broker Willie Brown is instructive. Brown was instrumental in Harris’s rise in California politics. In return, she may have protected him and his allies from damaging investigations. Brown rose through the[…]
Read MoreThe International Criminal Court at the Hague was back in the news recently with the announcement by its chief prosecutor that he would seek charges against Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant for war crimes in Gaza, while simultaneously seeking charges against the leaders of Hamas for war crimes in Israel.[…]
Read MoreThe Trump prosecution rested its case Monday with a central question unanswered: where’s the crime? Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has been dancing around the question for months. The prosecution produced a cacophony of tawdry testimony from a porn star (Stormy Daniels) and a former Trump aide turned convicted felon turned cooperating witness (Michael Cohen)[…]
Read MoreThe Donald Trump business records trial opened yesterday in New York City with prosecutors signaling a wide-ranging case. Documents—business records—related to payments from the Trump Organization to an adult film star showed “election fraud” and a “criminal conspiracy and cover up” designed to prevent information about an alleged affair from emerging before the 2016 presidential[…]
Read MoreA metastasizing corruption scandal in Europe—dubbed “Qatargate” by the local media—has engulfed politicians from Greece, Belgium, and Italy, and shows no sign of slowing down. At the center of the case: allegations that Qatar steered $4.3 million in bribes to European Union officials to favorably influence policy toward the wealthy Mideast nation. But you don’t[…]
Read MoreHigh-ranking Democratic Party officials professed shock, shock, when Special Counsel Robert Hur on February 8 released a report describing President Biden as an “elderly man with a poor memory” who mishandled classified documents. “Gratuitous, inaccurate and inappropriate,” said Vice President Harris. “Gratuitous and wrong,” said former Justice Department official Neal Katyal. “Flouts [Justice Department] regulations[…]
Read More