Happy New Year!

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JUDICIAL WATCH SUES FOR SECRET SERVICE RECORDS ON DISRUPTION AT TRUMP
DINNER

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The Secret Service has a tarnished record when it comes to protecting
President Donald Trump, and the American people deserve accountability
from the agencies that are entrusted with the duty of guarding their
president.

We filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit
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for U.S. Secret Service communications records related to Code Pink
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protesters who disrupted a dinner held by
President Donald Trump at a restaurant in Washington, DC, on September
9, 2025 (_Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security_
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_(No.
1:25-cv-04408)).

We sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after
the Secret Service, a component of the U.S. Department of Homeland
Security, failed to respond to a September 10, 2025, FOIA request for:

* All internal emails and text messages among USSS officials in the
Presidential Protective Division regarding the presence of Code Pink
protestors appearing at Joe’s Seafood, Prime Steak & Stone Crab
restaurant in Washington, D.C. on the evening of September 9, 2025,
while President Trump and other administration officials dined there.

* All emails sent between USSS [U.S. Secret Service] officials and
any email account ending in @codepink.org.

On the evening of September 9, 2025, during President Trump’s dinner
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with Vice President J.D. Vance, Secretary of State Marco Rubio,
Secretary of War Pete Hegseth and other officials, a group of Code
Pink activists began a protest
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in the restaurant by chanting slogans and waving Palestinian flags.

In July 2025, we sued
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the U.S.
Department of Justice for all records regarding Thomas Matthew Crooks,
who attempted to assassinate Trump on July 13, 2024, (_Judicial Watch
Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice_
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(No. 1:25-cv-02216)).

In March 2025, we sued
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Homeland
Security for records related to security provided for the July 13,
2024, rally in Butler, PA, during which there was an assassination
attempt on Trump (_Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of Homeland
Security_
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(No. 1:25-cv-00704)).

In September 2024, following up on reports that the Biden Secret
Service denied Trump’s requests for additional Secret Service
protection, we filed a FOIA lawsuit
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for
Secret Service and other records regarding potential increased
protective services to Trump’s security detail prior to the attempt
on his life at his July 13 campaign rally in Butler, PA (_Judicial
Watch v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security_
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_(No.
1:24-cv-02495)).

CRIMINAL ALIENS WERE USING ARREST WARRANTS, REMOVAL ORDERS AS LEGAL ID

Amazing as it sounds, the Biden administration compounded the dangers
of its open border lawlessness by allowing the very warrants that
should have gotten criminal aliens detained or deported to be used as
ID to board commercial aircraft.

We filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit
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against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security for records on
migrants who entered the United States from 2020 to 2025 using arrest
warrants and removal orders as proof of identification (_Judicial
Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of Homeland Security_
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_(No.
1:25-cv-04414)).

We sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after
U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), a component of
Homeland Security, failed to comply with a February 26, 2025, FOIA
request for:

> Data reflecting the number of persons entering the United States
> from 2020 through 2025 who used any of the following documents as
> proof of identification, with the data broken out by category:
>
> * Warrant for Arrest of Alien,
> * Warrant of Removal/Deportation,
> * Order of Removal on Recognizance,
> * Order of Supervision,
> * Notice to Appear,
> * Arrival and Departure Form,
> * and/or Alien Booking Record.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement forwarded our request to U.S.
Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS), which forwarded it to
U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP), but no records have been
forthcoming. We filed an identical FOIA request with the
Transportation and Safety Administration (TSA), which has also failed
to comply.

In January 2022, the Biden administration admitted
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that the Transportation and Safety Administration was allowing illegal
immigrants to use arrest warrants as an alternative form of
identification to board commercial airplanes.

In a January 31, 2022, letter
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to Transportation and Safety Administration Administrator David
Pekoske, Sen. Josh Hawley (R-MO) stated, “The point of an arrest
warrant is for police to actively seek out and apprehend criminals.
However, you have now confirmed that illegal aliens may present arrest
warrants to federal officials to board commercial aircrafts.”

In November 2025, we sued Evanston, IL, Mayor Daniel Biss
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for records related to obstruction of federal immigration enforcement,
as well as Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs
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for records regarding her office reportedly ordering state police and
the National Guard to withhold cooperation from federal immigration
enforcement authorities.

We recently pointed out
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that in just two states with “sanctuary” policies, nearly 9,000
criminal aliens were released from jails and prisons since January 20,
defying Immigration and Customs Enforcement detainers to deport them.

In October 2025, we reported
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on a
Homeland Security Task Force (HSTF), established by President Trump on
the day of his inauguration to tackle a pandemic of transnational
organized crime created by the Biden administration’s
“disgraceful” open border policies, had made thousands of arrests
and seized over 1,000 illegal firearms, 91 tons of drugs and $3
million in currency.

LAWSUIT ACCUSES TRUMP OF DISCRIMINATION FOR ENDING DEI PROGRAMS

Rooting out the Biden administration’s divisive, leftist Diversity
Equity and Inclusion (DEI) programs requires diligent effort, as our
_Corruption Chronicles_ blog reports
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> Spearheaded by a woman who identifies as “non-binary,” a group
> of federal employees who worked in specially created government
> Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion (DEI) departments under the Biden
> administration are suing President Trump for ending the wasteful and
> exclusionary programs and firing them. The former government workers
> claim they were unlawfully dismissed because the president violated
> employment protections under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act by
> disproportionately impacting and targeting black, women and
> non-binary federal employees as well as people of color and those
> perceived of advocating for legally protected racial and gender
> groups, including LGBTQ people. “While neutral on their face,
> these policies had an unlawful disparate impact on women and
> non-binary employees, and/or people of color,” reads the lawsuit
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> filed this month in the United States District Court for the
> District of Columbia. The complaint acknowledges that, while changes
> in presidential priorities are normal during an administration
> change, the broad DEI cuts were targeted actions intended to punish
> perceived political enemies like the plaintiffs in this case.
>
> The governmentwide DEI cuts have impacted an unknown number of
> federal employees, but could potentially be in the thousands,
> according to the lawsuit. It identifies at least 40 women or
> non-binary individuals, and more than 40 people of color who lost
> their DEI government jobs under Trump. Among them is Mahri Stainnak,
> a non-binary (does not identify as a man or woman and uses
> “they” pronoun) biological woman who served as DEI deputy
> director in the Office of Personnel Management’s (OPM) human
> resources office under Biden. Stainnak was fired for advancing
> initiatives for LGBTQ workers, the lawsuit says, and a fellow
> plaintiff for advocating for protected racial and gender groups at
> the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) Office of Civil Rights
> and Civil Liberties. Others include an air traffic control manager
> who facilitated inclusivity, a public health advisor who promoted
> outreach to LGBTQ communities, a DHS worker who ensured language
> competency at the border, and a forestry employee who ensured
> equitable access to federal lands. The anti-DEI directives reveal
> that people targeted for termination include substantially more
> women and/or non-binary workers and an over-selection of people of
> color with a substantial over-selection of black employees, the
> complaint states.
>
> For example, the lawsuit says, at least 97 female and 37 male
> employees were cut from a DHS civil rights office characterized by
> DOGE as corrupted by DEI. “When compared to the number of women in
> the federal workforce (approximately 918,127) vs. men in the federal
> workforce (approximately 1,122,155) or even compared within DHS
> (69,019 vs.130,616), the adverse impact is stark and
> disproportionate,” the complaint states, adding that “the impact
> on employees of color is similarly evident.” To back this up the
> lawsuit reveals that 41 black employees and 71 white employees were
> fired from the same unit with approximately 383,573 black employees
> and around 1,213,968 white employees, constituting what the
> plaintiffs allege is a “disparate impact.” As a result of the
> Trump administration’s discriminatory patterns and practices,
> women and people of color have been systematically harmed, the
> complaint states, alleging that the former DEI workers were
> “targeted due to their protected race and/or gender status.”
>
> The governmentwide DEI fiasco was created when Biden strong armed
> all federal agencies to implement plans to advance racial equity and
> support for underserved communities
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> with a 2021 executive order. The order included a mandate for all
> government agencies to establish an equity team and proactive
> engagement with members of underserved communities through
> culturally and linguistically appropriate listening sessions. Biden
> also established a White House Steering Committee on Equity composed
> of senior officials who coordinated the government’s sweeping
> efforts to promote his leftist agenda. The Treasury Department named
> its first ever racial equity chief, a veteran La Raza official who
> spent a decade at the nation’s most influential open borders
> group. The Department of Defense (DOD) used outrageous anti-bias
> materials that indoctrinated troops with anti-American and racially
> inflammatory training on diversity topics. The U. S. Department of
> Agriculture (USDA) created an equity commission to address
> longstanding inequities in agriculture. The nation’s medical
> research agency launched a special minority health and health
> disparities division that issued a study declaring COVID-19
> exacerbated preexisting resentment against racial/ethnic minorities
> and marginalized communities.
>
> On the day of his inauguration President Trump signed an executive
> order
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>
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> all government DEI and environmental justice offices and positions,
> calling them “illegal and immoral discrimination programs” that
> resulted in “immense public waste.” The fired DEI government
> employees accuse the president of having disdain for DEI and
> associating it with political ideologies he disfavors, such as
> Marxism or the radical left as well as people of color from the
> Democratic party such as Kamala Harris.
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HAPPY NEW YEAR!

This is the season of resolutions for the coming year, and the
practice must speak to something deep within us because its roots are
ancient.

The Babylonians are said
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to
have been the first to make New Year’s resolutions, some 4,000 years
ago. In 46 B.C., Julius Caesar established January 1 as the beginning
of the new year. The month is named for Janus, the two-faced god who
symbolically looked backwards into the previous year and ahead into
the future.

Today’s resolutions are typically about health and personal
improvement. Let me propose, however, that we also resolve to stand
strong together against the ill winds blowing across our land.

For instance, as you know from my prior updates, Judicial Watch will
be going back to
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the Supreme Court of the United States in 2026 for another landmark
case – this one to challenge Mississippi’s lawless practice of
counting ballots received up to five days after Election Day. At the
heart of this case is a simple question: When is an election really
over?

Looking back at history, as the New Year of 1942 began
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Hitler held
Europe, Nazi U-boats prowled the Atlantic, and America had received a
heavy blow at Pearl Harbor.

British Prime Minister Winston Churchill was in the United States and
spoke
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to our
Congress about our common enemies:

> They have certainly embarked upon a very considerable
> undertaking…. _What kind of a people do they think we are?_ Is it
> possible they do not realize that we shall never cease to persevere
> against them until they have been taught a lesson which they and the
> world will never forget?

Later, on a train in New York traveling near President Franklin
Roosevelt’s home at Hyde Park, he called staff and reporters to the
dining car. He wanted to “cast some forward light upon the dark,
inscrutable mysteries of the future.” He toasted them:

> Here’s to 1942, here’s to a year of toil—a year of struggle
> and peril, and a long step forward towards victory. May we all come
> through safe and with honour.

Let us take courage today from those words and resolve to embrace the
coming year with perseverance and honor. (One great way to enter this
important year is with a donation to your Judicial Watch
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Happy New Year!

Until next week,



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