Judicial Watch Seeks Evidence of Biden Justice Department’s Lawfare
Illegal Immigration Doubled Under Kamala’s Costly Project to Stop It
Judicial Watch Seeks Evidence of Biden Justice Department’s Lawfare
We joined Victoria Toensing, a former attorney for President Donald J. Trump, in filing a motion to unseal materials related to three search warrants targeting Toensing’s iCloud account, Gmail account, and cell phone (In re Search Warrants Executed on April 28, 2021 (No. 21-mc-00425 (JPO))).
We filed the motion before U.S. District Judge J. Paul Oetken of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York, seeking materials related to:
- A November 4, 2019, warrant authorizing the government to seize and search all records contained in Toensing’s iCloud account;
- A December 13, 2019, warrant authorizing the government to seize and search Toensing’s Gmail account; and
- An April 28, 2021, warrant authorizing the government to search the contents of the cell phone federal agents seized from Toensing at her Maryland residence.
On April 22, 2021, shortly after President Biden took office, the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland issued a warrant authorizing federal agents to search Toensing’s Maryland home, including all locked and closed containers within it, to find and seize her cell phone and iPad. The warrant also authorized agents to compel Toensing to unlock the devices using her fingerprints and/or facial recognition.
Agents seized her cell phone, which was then transported to the Southern District of New York, where the government obtained a warrant to search its entire contents. The seizure occurred on the same day the FBI raided the home and office of former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani. The warrants, applications, affidavits, and related materials remain under seal to this day, and Toensing has never been told the reasons for the searches.
Toensing is a lawyer and legal commentator, a former federal prosecutor and Deputy Assistant Attorney General, and former Chief Counsel of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. To her knowledge, she has never been the target of an investigation. She has never been charged with any crime.
In their motion, Toensing and Judicial Watch state:
Here, Judicial Watch is investigating the potential politicization of numerous federal law enforcement agencies and whether they abused their powers to attack associates of a political opponent.
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Here, the presumption of public access clearly outweighs any countervailing factors. The records are being sought to enhance the public’s understanding of the United States’ targeting of President Trump’s attorney by the Biden administration. The public has a real interest in knowing the evidence underlying the search warrant application and whether the warrant was sought for legitimate law enforcement purposes rather than to target a political opponent’s ally. These questions cannot be examined while the materials remain sealed.
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In addition, the investigation appears to have concluded, and Toensing was never charged. There is no ongoing prosecution that disclosure could jeopardize, no witness whose safety is at risk, and no trial whose fairness could be compromised.
Toensing and Judicial Watch also have a motion pending in the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland to unseal the materials related to the April 22, 2021, warrant used to search her home (No. 21-mj-01202-GLS).
“The Biden Administration targeted Rudy Giuliani and me as retaliation for exposing Biden family corruption in Ukraine. In doing so, the Biden DOJ and FBI created a pretextual criminal investigation of us,” Toensing said. “Justice requires that we learn the false statements used to punish us for speaking the truth.”
The American people have a right to know why the Biden Justice Department secretly targeted President Trump’s attorney Victoria Toensing. These ‘lawfare’ search warrant records have remained hidden for years, even though Toensing was never charged with a crime.
We have taken a leading role in exposing the politicization and weaponization of federal law enforcement. We recently moved to unseal the search warrant materials related to a November 18, 2024, warrant that authorized the federal government to seize the entire Google account of Michael Caputo, a longtime ally and policy advisor to President Donald J. Trump.
We also previously moved to unseal the search warrant materials used in the FBI’s August 2022 raid on Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home and to publish the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court transcripts relating to the surveillance of former Trump campaign advisor Carter Page.
In addition, we are currently pursuing multiple Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuits for records about the investigations of other Trump allies.
In April 2026, we sued the Justice Department for records on the Biden FBI’s search warrants used in the April 2021 raid on former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s residence and office (Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice(No. 1:26-cv-01158)). Giuliani served as a personal attorney and informal advisor to Trump.
In November 2025, we sued the Justice Department for records concerning investigations of Mike Lindell (Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 25-cv-03850)).
In March 2025, we sued the Justice Department and U.S. Department of Homeland Security for records regarding Christina Bobb, a former lawyer for Trump (Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:25-cv-00588)).
Ethan Leonard and Neal Brickman of the Brickman Law Group in New York, New York are representing Judicial Watch and Toensing in this matter.
Illegal Immigration Doubled Under Kamala’s Costly Project to Stop It
With talk of Kamala Harris considering another run for the presidency, we should look at one of the leftist disasters that has her name on it. Our Corruption Chronicles blog reports on the ludicrous plan to slow immigration from Central America.
The costly failures of the Biden administration’s senseless plan to curb “irregular migration” from Central America by sending the region enormous amounts of taxpayer dollars have been well documented, but recently published figures show the problem was much worse than reported with a bigger increase in illegal aliens from those countries than previously imagined. As the American cash flowed south in an ill-fated effort to deter migration by making life better at home the number of illegal aliens from the targeted region doubled from 2.05 million in 2019 to 4.3 million by the time Biden left the White House, according to government figures cited in a new probe. The audit was conducted by the Migration Policy Institute (MPI), which claims to be nonpartisan but is funded by leftists such as George Soros’ Open Society Foundations (OSF), the Gates Foundation and other liberal entities like Maine Equal Justice.
Thanks to Biden’s open border policies the illegal immigration population in the United States reached a new peak of 15.8 million as of mid-2024 after holding steady at around 11 million throughout the 2010s, the MPI writes in its report. “This increase was driven largely by record border arrivals and expanded Biden-era humanitarian parole programs,” the MPI writes. The Washington D.C.-based group describes itself as a leading, evidence-based institution in the field of migration policy and a source of authoritative research. In this case, the nonprofit used the most recently available data from the U.S. Census Bureau’s American Community Survey (ACS). “As the size of the unauthorized immigrant population has increased since 2019, the share of immigrants who are from Central and South America has surged while the Mexican share has shrunk significantly,” the MPI states, adding that the Central American share of the unauthorized immigrant population increased to 27 % under Biden up from 15% in 2010 as Mexico for the first time fell below 50%.
The big increases in illegal immigrants were also driven by policies implemented under the Biden administration that allowed most migrants who reached American soil to remain inside the country pending the outcome of removal proceedings in the nation’s severely backlogged immigration courts. “Growth was further driven by the creation of new humanitarian parole programs that allowed legal entry and temporary stay for migrants from Afghanistan, Ukraine, Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, as well as those from all around the world who reached northern Mexico and made appointments via the CBP One app to be screened for entry,” the report states. Additionally, the MPI found that “sizable numbers of Europeans and others” overstayed their temporary visa yet remained in the U.S. like most of the 9/11 terrorists. It was an immigration free for all that shattered records and infested communities throughout the U.S. with criminal aliens that the Trump administration is rounding up in federal operations across the country.
Many came from Central America even as the Biden administration kept sending the region money to curb the flow under a special program run by Vice President Kamala Harris. It was known as “Root Causes Strategy” and the administration committed a whopping $4 billion to fund it. The ludicrous idea behind the initiative was that it would improve life enough to deter citizens in the impoverished nations known as the northern triangle— El Salvador, Guatemala, and Honduras—from coming to the U.S. illegally. The Biden administration laughably claimed the strategy was successful and that it had far-reaching impacts throughout the region by creating jobs, supporting education, enhancing food security and combatting human smuggling. Figures released by Customs and Border Protection (CBP) however, have consistently revealed that the former vice president’s Central American experiment did not deter migrants from the three countries. The MPI report not only confirms this but also exposes that the multi-billion-dollar program was an even bigger failure than previously imagined. In the period examined, 2019 to 2024, the illegal Honduran population expanded from 506,000 to 1,349,000 while the Guatemalan population went from 698,000 to 1,525,000 and the Salvadoran population went from 733,000 to 920,000.
Until next week,
