(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton issued a statement today in response to the passing of former federal judge and Supreme Court nominee Robert H. Bork, who died today. He was 85 years old. Bork served as U.S. solicitor general and a judge on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of

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Probably alluding to groups like Judicial Watch, a professor at a taxpayer-funded university has published a study that chastises organizations for using “fear and anger” to spread negative messages about Muslims. This has caused tremendous damage, according to the study, because the mainstream media has given these “fringe organizations” a forum to raise money and

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Fox News’ “Hannity” on Thursday at 9 p.m. eastern will air a one-hour special about the “District

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A terrorist front group that bills itself as the nation’s largest Muslim advocacy organization is demanding that a major public school district in south Florida close twice a year to celebrate Islamic holy days. Incredibly, the district’s Diversity Committee is seriously considering it and is holding special meetings to gather information before making the final

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Billions of dollars in the hole, the U.S. Postal Service (USPS) has never the less managed to give top executives illegally high salary and compensation packages that should outrage American taxpayers. It was just a few weeks ago that the USPS made headlines for its record $5.2 billion loss in the last quarter of the

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Judicial Watch Senior Investigator Lisette Garcia was in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba last week to observe in person military commission proceedings against Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, Ramzi Binalshibh, Ali Abdul Aziz Ali, and Mustafa Ahmed Adam al Hawsawi. Family members of Paul Acquaviva, Andrea Haberman, Michael Noeth, Randy Scott, and Amy Toyen who were among the 2,976

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It’s been a spectacular month so far for grant recipients of President Obama’s costly “environmental justice” program, which keeps doling out millions to help “underserved” and minority communities obtain the same protection from health and environmental hazards as their wealthy counterparts. So what if the national debt is a gargantuan $16 trillion and growing? In

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Illustrating that public corruption has no age limit or boundary, the 91-year-old mayor of a tiny Alabama town has been convicted of stealing hundreds of thousands of dollars from city coffers and a chunk of the cash went to her live-in boyfriend. The story comes from River Falls, a quaint 7-square-mile town with a population

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What is it about Detroit public officials and sex scandals? In just a few years, a mayor and two police chiefs in Michigan’s largest city have made headlines for their unscrupulous extracurricular activities. Keep in mind that this is a city rife with all sorts of public corruption. In the last few years Detroit’s mayor

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Keeping its promise to protect man’s “closest relatives” the Obama Administration is moving quickly to eradicate valuable biomedical research on chimpanzees at the request of leftist animal rights groups. The move to ban chimp research started nearly a year ago when the administration quietly proposed to include chimpanzees on the U.S. government’s endangered species list.

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