Judicial Watch Sues Boston Mayor for Details of Pro-Sanctuary Press Conference Featuring Mariachi Band

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Dec 15, 2025

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Judicial Watch Sues Boston Mayor for Details of Pro-Sanctuary Press Conference Featuring Mariachi Band

Judicial Watch announced it filed a Massachusetts Public Records Law lawsuit against the City of Boston for details about a press conference – opened by a mariachi band – held by Boston Mayor Michelle Wu on August 19, 2025, during which Wu publicly defied U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi’s demands that Boston comply with federal immigration law (Judicial Watch v. City of Boston (No. 2584 cv 03395)).

Two Sanctuary States Release Nearly 9,000 Criminal Aliens with ICE Detainers Since January

The Trump administration’s crackdown on illegal immigration has made great strides in a short time, but over a dozen states are making the effort more difficult by offering illegal aliens—even those convicted of serious crimes—sanctuary. Just two of those states, New York and Illinois, have released nearly 9,000 criminal aliens from jails and prisons since January 20, defying Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) detainers to deport them. Among the offenders protected by the sanctuary policies are murderers, terrorists, sexual predators and kidnappers, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) confirms this month.

Judicial Watch Sues Justice Dept for FBI Records on Hunter Biden’s Infamous Laptop

“The Justice Department’s refusal to release these basic investigative records raises serious questions about transparency and potential interference in one of the most consequential political stories in recent history,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “We will fight in court to get the public the answers it is entitled to under the law.”

Judicial Watch Sues Justice Department for FBI Records on Hillary Clinton’s Brother, Tony Rodham

Judicial Watch announced it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for FBI records on Hillary Clinton’s deceased brother, Tony Rodham (Judicial Watch v U.S. Department of Justice (No.1:25-cv-04237)).

Illegal Alien Superintendent’s Voter Registration Docs Deepen Need For Better Vetting

The Federalist

The illegal alien who ran Iowa’s largest public school district before being apprehended by ICE claimed to be a U.S. citizen on his Maryland voter registration forms, according to records obtained by the Public Interest Legal Foundation (PILF).

Earlier this year, a federal judge struck down a Board of Elections rule that “restricted and criminalized the use of voter registration lists for voter fraud and other ‘investigations,’” Judicial Watch reported. Maryland elections officials released Roberts’ records to PILF and other watchdogs in October, but the documents were heavily redacted — including the illegal immigrant’s response to the U.S. citizenship status question.

Socialist group ‘By Any Means Necessary’ escalates campaign to ‘stop’ Turning Point USA

Fox News

In a Sunday afternoon meeting called a “tribunal,” Yvette Felarca, a Berkeley, Calif., public school teacher and a local fixture among self-professed “anti-fascist” agitators, joyfully led about 40 members of the socialist organization By Any Means Necessary (BAMN) in an after-action report on the group’s “victory” last week in a bloody battle at the University of California, Berkeley against supporters of Turning Point USA.

In April 2019, a judge ordered Felarca to pay the organization, Judicial Watch, $20,000 in legal fees for challenging a public records request that Judicial Watch had filed in 2017 with Berkeley Unified School District, seeking all emails related to Felaraca and the words “antifa” and “BAMN,” the acronym for “By Any Means Necessary.”

Obama faces backlash after calling for ‘regulatory constraints’ on social media in viral video

Fox News

A video of former President Barack Obama saying that the U.S. should experiment with new forms of journalism and government restraints on social media went viral on Wednesday, as critics blasted the former president’s remarks.

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton wrote that Obama was opposing the First Amendment and “wants to jail and fine Americans in an ‘experiment’ with government regulation of journalism.”