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Federal Court Orders Deposition of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s Office Representative in Lawsuit against Racist Interview Policy Judicial Watch announced recently that a federal court ordered the deposition of a representative of Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s office in a lawsuit over her discriminatory interview policy. The court granted the request for discovery during a hearing this morning. In doing so, the court rejected arguments by the mayor’s lawyers against discovery and to dismiss the legal challenge. READ MORE

Judicial Watch: U.S. Capitol Police Tell Federal Court January 6 Disturbance Videos Are Not Public Records “To cut to the chase, the US Capitol Police is hiding a reported 14,000 hours of January 6 video from the American people to help Nancy Pelosi’s abusive targeting of Trump supporters and other political opponents,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “Any other police department in America would be investigated and defunded for such abusive secrecy. The Pelosi Congress is in cover-up mode regarding January 6.” READ MORE

U.S. Wastes Nearly $1 Trillion on Afghanistan Reconstruction, Biden to Send $3.3 Billion More In two decades of failed Afghanistan reconstruction efforts the U.S. government has spent almost a trillion dollars and President Joe Biden wants to dedicate billions more in the aftermath of his disastrous withdraw from the terrorist nation. Judicial Watch has reported extensively on the pervasive waste, fraud and corruption that has long plagued the failed U.S. nation building project in Afghanistan which has seen an exorbitant flow of cash under both Democrat and Republican administrations. To compensate for the absence of American troops, Biden wants to throw in another $3.3 billion on the way out, a $300 million increase over last year, incorporated in the 2022 defense budget. READ MORE

Judicial Watch Seeks Texas Supreme Court Review of Lawsuit for Information on Qatari Government’s Funding of Texas A&M, a Public University Zachor Legal Institute is a U.S.-based advocacy group dedicated to combatting the spread of anti-Semitism. Zachor made two requests under the Texas Public Information Act for information about the funding or donations made to Texas A&M by the government of Qatar and agencies and subdivisions of the government of Qatar. Qatar controversially has aligned itself with Islamic terrorists and extremists, which has placed it at odds with the United States, Israel and other U.S. allies in the Middle East. READ MORE

Biden won’t release Delaware visitor logs despite 17 trips home The New York Post “I can confirm we are not going to be providing information about the comings and goings of the president’s grandchildren or people visiting him in Delaware,” Psaki said at her daily press briefing in response to a question from The Post about whether Biden would release visitor logs, including of relatives with potential conflicts of interest. READ MORE FARRELL: The Border Crisis/COVID Spike Connection The Daily Caller DeSantis has taken the lead in drawing attention to the potential impact our wide-open southern border is having on the resurgence of COVID-19. Hundreds of thousands of migrants arrive from scores of countries, probably unvaccinated, definitely at risk and about half the time already infected with the disease. They are then sent throughout the country as disease vectors for whatever variety of the contagion they have, known or unknown. “Whatever variants are around the world, they’re coming across that southern border,” DeSantis said. He noted that the president is “not shutting down the virus, he’s helping to facilitate it in our country.” READ MORE Reporters challenged ‘natural causes’ ruling in death of Capitol Police officer Sicknick: watchdog Just the News Members of the media pressured officials when Capitol Police Officer Brian Sicknick's autopsy contravened the popular narrative that he essentially was beaten to death during the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, according to records obtained by Judicial Watch. Journalists challenged the Washington, D.C. medical examiner's office regarding its finding that Sicknick in fact died of natural causes, according to those records. READ MORE UPDATE: Biden’s Afghanistan SURRENDER Under INVESTIGATION WATCH NOW Biden Pentagon Targets Conservatives WATCH NOW FLASHBACK: Biden National Security Adviser Caught-Up in Clinton Email-Benghazi Scandal WATCH NOW CLIPS January 6 SECRETS Being Kept from Americans by Capitol Police, Pelosi Fitton on Newsmax: Vaccine Mandates Violate Your Privacy!

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