Judicial Watch And Who They Watch
By Bob Small
Judicial Watch is a “conservative non-partisan educational foundation” whose motto is “Because no one is above the law”. This group, which we also learnt about at the annual Bill of Rights Banquet, is in the news.
It has over 60 major legal wins since 2001 albeit few against Republican administrations.
One crusade concerns the extraordinarily extreme roadblocks created by authorities against those with whom they disagree.
While few of their fights are in support of traditionally liberal causes a recent one focused on animal rights, namely the controversial killing of the pet squirrel Peanut by New York State.
And they also took on former Vice-President Dick Cheney, which they unfortunately lost.
Judicial Watch has been praised by The New York Times as being “the group has forced the release of government records that would otherwise have been kept from the public.” quote from NY Times as per Wikipedia
All sides recognize Judicial Watch as conservative.
Judicial Watch notes though that corruption is nonpartisan and does not occur in one specific ideology.
A group that watches Judicial Watch is Democracy Docket which takes issue with Judicial Watch lawsuit to purge thousands of voters in Pennsylvania.
Democracy Docket, by the way, was founded in 2020 by Democratic Party lawyer Marc Elias. Democracy Docket They have the support of Hillary Clinton and Eric Holder
We’ll be curious to see the actions of Judicial Watch over Trump’s current term.
