Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and prosecutes government corruption, announced today that it has filed two separate Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits against the Department of the Treasury and the Federal Reserve in its continuing efforts to bring transparency to the federal government's massive taxpayer bailouts.

Judicial Watch's request filed with the Treasury Department on June 19, 2009, relates to a congressional briefing on the financial crisis held by former Secretary of the Treasury Henry Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke on September 18, 2008, as they sought congressional approval for their financial bailout plan.

An activist Chicano professor at a taxpayer-funded university has created special technology to help Mexicans enter the United States illegally by mapping the safest routes through the notoriously rigorous southern border desert.

The innovative Transborder Immigrant Tool is a simple mobile application—inserted into the cheapest available cell phone on the market—which guides illegal aliens through the least dangerous routes, areas with shelter, food, water and so-called Quaker help centers that provide medical attention and directions to the nearest major U.S. highway. 

In a desperate effort to avoid impeachment, a Louisiana federal judge embroiled in a corruption scandal is suing the congressional task force that could remove him from the bench to block it from using incriminating evidence that could lead to his demise.

U.S. District Judge G. Thomas Portreous claims that the impeachment task force of the U.S. House of Representative’s Committee on the Judiciary is illegally using testimony he gave under a promise of immunity to make a case for his ouster. Prosecutors agree not to use immunized testimony against defendants but its not clear what effect, if any, the deals have on impeachment proceedings which are conducted by federal legislators.