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| For Immediate Release | |
| Jun 28, 2000 | Contact: Press Office 202-646-5172 |
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(Washington, D.C.) At 4:03 p.m. this evening, Judicial Watch received word that the lower court refused to grant Elian Gonzalez a "stay of execution." The public-interest law firm recently uncovered evidence that the Court had received incomplete and false information from the Immigration and Naturalization Service (INS) in making its initial findings in the Elian matter. The Court's order offers scant reasoning for its finding; only that even if the INS had prejudged the issue pursuant to an apparent "deal" with Castro's Communist Cuba, it could have always changed its mind up to the point it claims to have issued its final decision on January 3, 2000. Interested Americans, who believe in due process rights, even for a six-year-old boy from Cuba, should read Judicial Watch's brief entitled "Plaintiffs' Emergency Motion for Relief from Judgment and Application for Temporary Restraining Order and/or Preliminary Injunction" at www.JudicialWatch.org, and judge for themselves whether the lower court's bizarre reasoning was correct. Clearly, Judicial Watch presented enough evidence to warrant the Court to conduct an evidentiary hearing to determine whether or not it had been deceived. "Judicial Watch inherited this case at the ‘eleventh hour,' when the patient, Elian Gonzalez, was already on his deathbed. It did everything it could do to prevent perhaps what is the greatest legal injustice experienced thus far in the new 21st Century. However, on behalf of Judicial Watch's clients, Donato Dalrymple, and the patriotic Miami Cuban-American community, we are disappointed, but hardly finished. Together we will pursue justice against the illegal and criminal actions of Attorney General Janet Reno, Deputy Attorney General Eric Holder, and INS Commissioner Doris Meissner, and others in the Clinton-Gore Administration who not only trampled on the rights of the Constitution with their illegal raid of April 22, 2000, but also basic human decency," stated Judicial Watch Chairman and General Counsel Larry Klayman. "We are confident that we will find, in our various cases on behalf of the Miami Cuban-American community and all Americans, judges and juries with the courage to bring about justice," added Klayman. |
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