Colorado Removes 372,000 Inactive Voters from its Rolls after Lawsuit
Judicial Watch Sues for Search Warrants in Rudy Giuliani Raid
Colorado Removes 372,000 Inactive Voters from its Rolls after Lawsuit
Judicial Watch Election Integrity Team to Monitor Hungary’s Elections
School District Where Illegal Alien Sexually Assaulted Girls Lawyers Up
Judicial Watch Sues for Search Warrants in Rudy Giuliani Raid
On April 28, 2021, at approximately 6 a.m., federal agents executed search warrants at former New York City Mayor Rudy Giuliani’s Manhattan apartment and his office, seizing his cellphone and other electronic devices. Agents reportedly seized additional materials, including a computer used by long-time assistant Jo Ann Zafonte.
Giuliani served as a personal attorney and informal adviser to President Donald Trump.
Judicial Watch filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Justice for records on the Biden FBI’s search warrants used in the April 2021 raid on Giuliani’s residence and office (Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:26-cv-01158)).
We sued in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia after the Justice Department failed to respond to a February 2026 FOIA request. The request, which included a signed certification of identity from Giuliani himself, seeks all records related to the April 2021 search warrants, including:
- Warrant applications, affidavits, attachments, draft versions, and approval memoranda;
- Supervisory and Main Justice approvals;
- Attorney search approvals under Justice Manual guidelines;
- Records concerning privilege review, “taint team” procedures, privilege determinations, and any special master involvement;
- Coordination with the FBI and the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Southern District of New York; and
- Emails, memoranda, briefing materials, and other communications outside formal case files discussing Giuliani, the raids, or the underlying investigation.
According to public reports, the raid was tied to an investigation into whether Giuliani violated the Foreign Agents Registration Act (FARA) in connection with his activities involving Ukrainian officials while he was seeking information related to Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden.
Giuliani’s then-attorney Robert Costello noted that federal agents ignored Hunter Biden’s computer hard drives when they raided the apartment, contradicting the order on the warrant “to seize every electronic device in his home.”
The Biden DOJ’s pre-dawn raid on Rudy Giuliani was a textbook example of weaponized justice — targeting a loyal advocate of President Trump’s while agents deliberately ignored Hunter Biden’s hard drives sitting in the same apartment. This selective enforcement exposes a corrupt two-tiered system.
Judicial Watch is a national leader in exposing the lawfare and abuse targeting Trump and other American citizens.
In April 2026, obtained records that reveal the FBI’s concerns about the legal basis for the 2022 raid of Trump’s Mar-a-Lago home. The records expose explicit objections from field agents who warned the Justice Department that the unprecedented raid on Trump’s home lacked probable cause.
In March 2026, the Justice Department reported that the FBI found about 1.9 million pages of records that are responsive to our FOIA lawsuit. These documents were reportedly stored in a “hidden room” at FBI headquarters and were first revealed by former Deputy Director Dan Bongino (Judicial Watch v U.S. Department of Justice (No.1:25-cv-04047)).
In March 2026, we sued the Justice Department for records from the FBI’s Biden-era “Arctic Frost” probe, specifically involving the Criminal Division, the Office of Information Policy, Attorney General Merrick Garland, Deputy Attorney General Lisa Monaco and Special Counsel Jack Smith’s team (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:26-cv-00746)).
In March 2026, we asked a Georgia state court to reject Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis’ efforts to continue hiding records about her office’s communications with Jack Smith’s office and the January 6 Committee (Judicial Watch Inc. v. Fani Willis et al. (No. 24-CV-002805)).
In February 2026, we secured the release of rosters identifying the names of top deputies who worked for former Special Counsel Jack Smith (Judicial Watch Inc. v U.S. Department of Justice (No. 1:23-cv-01485)).
In January 2026, we sued the Justice Department for communications of FBI agents regarding the prosecution of former Trump trade advisor Peter Navarro (Judicial Watch Inc. v. U.S. Department of Justice (No.1:26-cv-00079)).
In January 2025, a federal court ordered the Justice Department to provide us with information on communications between Jack Smith and Fani Willis regarding the prosecution of Trump. In May 2025, the Justice Department was directed to search text messages from the Special Counsel’s Office for responsive records (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Department of Justice (No. 23-cv-03110).
Colorado Removes 372,000 Inactive Voters from its Rolls after Lawsuit
Following the settlement of our lawsuit addressing Colorado’s compliance with federal voter list maintenance requirements, the state has removed 372,000 ineligible voters from registration lists
Under the National Voter Registration Act of 1993 (NVRA), states must take reasonable steps to remove ineligible voters—such as those who have died, moved, or become inactive—while protecting eligible voters’ rights.
Judicial Watch filed the Colorado federal lawsuit to clean the voter rolls in 2020 on behalf of ourselves and three residents of Colorado. (Judicial Watch, Inc. v. Griswold, et al. (No. 20-cv-02992)).
In March 2023, Colorado’s secretary of state agreed to settle the lawsuit and has confirmed to us that since 2023 the state removed 372,000 ineligible voters.
This is a major victory for election integrity and a massive step toward cleaner elections.
We are a national leader in election integrity and voting rights litigation, with a record of successful lawsuits enforcing constitutional redistricting standards and cleaning voter rolls nationwide.
Our lawsuits and legal actions have now led to the removal of six million ineligible names from voter lists nationwide.
In Kentucky, state election board officials reported that “roughly 735,000 ineligible voter registrations” have been removed from voter rolls, as part of a 2018 consent decree settling a Judicial Watch lawsuit.
As part of its 2022 settlement, New York City alone has removed 918,139 ineligible names from its rolls: data show 477,056 removals between March 2023 and February 2025, which is in addition to the 441,083 previously reported removals.
In Los Angeles, county officials confirmed the removal of more than 1.2 million names from voter rolls as part of asettlement. Judicial Watch legal pressure also resulted in election roll clean-ups in Pennsylvania, Colorado, North Carolina, Kentucky, and Ohio.
Federal courts in Oregon and Illinois have ruled that our lawsuits against those states to force them to clean their voter rolls may proceed. New voter roll legal action in California is imminent.
Our election law efforts are led by Senior Attorney Robert Popper, who previously served in the Voting Section of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, where he managed voting rights investigations and litigation across dozens of states.
In March 2026, the Supreme Court of the United States held oral argument in a landmark election integrity case over whether the federal Election Day laws prohibit the counting of mail-in ballots that arrive after Election Day. We brought the underlying lawsuit on behalf of the Libertarian Party of Mississippi.
In January 2026, the U.S. Supreme Court decided 7-2 in favor of granting standing in a historic case we filed on behalf of Congressman Mike Bost and two presidential electors who were before the court to vindicate their standing to challenge an Illinois law allowing the counting of ballots received up to 14 days after Election Day.
Judicial Watch Election Integrity Team to Monitor Hungary’s Elections
An eight-member election-integrity team from Judicial Watch will monitor the April 12 Hungarian parliamentary elections. The vote will determine the next government and prime minister.
We sent an election observer team to Hungary for its 2022 election – independently monitoring voting at 52 precincts across 27 locations in and around Budapest.
Our team has been certified to serve as international election observers.
The team is led by Robert Popper, who previously served in the Voting Section of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, where he managed voting rights investigations and litigation across dozens of states. Popper established our election monitoring program. He is a veteran poll observer for the Department of Justice. The team also includes lawyers who have experience monitoring elections for Judicial Watch.
Our monitoring methodology emphasizes ballot access, meaning the ability of citizens to easily register and cast a vote in an election. It particularly focuses on recording specific Election Day problems concerning unlawful electioneering, arbitrary variations in the rules for voting, aggressive voting assistance, unusual ballot handling, voter intimidation or confrontations, and voter “turnaways.” Turnaways occur when a voter leaves a polling place without voting due to administrative problems, long lines, technical issues, or other circumstances.
This methodology contrasts with the approach adopted by other international observers, like the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), which has criticized the Hungarian elections from an ideological perspective based on value judgments about matters like media bias.
Judicial Watch’s election integrity team can play a key role in providing independent and expert monitoring of Hungary’s historic elections.
We are partnering with Liberty Coalition for a Free and Fair Election, which is working with independent experts from various parts of the world to provide vigorous oversight over Hungary’s elections.
We have also monitored U.S. elections to ensure compliance with state and federal laws.
As part of our ongoing election integrity efforts, our trained observers monitored polling sites in Wisconsin in November 2024. Separately, we ran an Internet hotline for voters in all states to report suspicions of election and voter fraud.
Our legal team monitored the polls in Georgia in 2022, as well as Virginia in 2016, and New Hampshire in 2014.
School District Where Illegal Alien Sexually Assaulted Girls Lawyers Up
Virginia’s largest school district has hired Virginia’s largest law firm to give advice on handling the case of an illegal immigrant who sexually assaulted multiple girls. Our Corruption Chronicles blog has the details.
The Virginia public school district that allowed a 19-year-old illegal immigrant to enroll in high school and sexually assault multiple girls is now paying a global law firm to “investigate” the crimes and offer legal advice, according to records obtained by Judicial Watch. The big league firm, the state’s largest, is billing taxpayers up to $1,850 an hour to tame blowback ignited by the scandal, which involves Fairfax High School in northern Virginia, a Washington D.C. suburb. The campus is part of Fairfax County Public Schools (FCPS), the Old Dominion state’s biggest public school system and ninth largest in the U.S. with an enrollment of 177,000 across 200 campuses. FCPS prides itself on serving a “diverse population” that speaks 194 languages and the district with a budget of $3.9 billion spends $21,986 per student, which is above the national average of around $16,000. FCPS received dozens of complaints about female students being groped and sexually assaulted before the high school finally had the illegal immigrant arrested, information obtained by Judicial Watch reveals.
Thanks to sanctuary policies that protect illegal immigrants—even those convicted of serious crimes—Virginia is inevitably a magnet for the undocumented. In this case an illegal immigrant from El Salvador, Israel Flores Ortiz, was welcomed into the community and allowed to enroll in 11th grade, despite his advanced age. Virginia officials claim Ortiz is 18 years old but federal authorities confirm he is 19 and living in Fairfax after entering the U.S. illegally in 2024 and released into the country under Biden’s disastrous open border policies. A Fairfax Police investigation determined that Ortiz, “an adult male student assaulted numerous female juvenile victims.” The illegal alien was transported to the Fairfax County Adult Detention Center last month and charged with 13 counts of assault and battery. He is scheduled for a court hearing in early April. Initially Ortiz was charged with nine counts, but additional victims came forward, according to city officials. The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is demanding that Fairfax County sanctuary politicians not release the “illegal alien pedophile” who groped high school girls. “This 19-year-old criminal illegal alien should NOT have been attending a Virginia high school and allowed to prey on innocent teenage girls,” said DHS Deputy Assistant Secretary Lauren Bis.
The agency blasted Virginia Governor Abigail Spanberger for ending cooperation with Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and “siding with criminal illegal aliens over American citizens.” DHS confirms the recently elected governor has released pedophiles, rapists, gang members, and murderers onto Virginia’s streets. Earlier this year Spanberger issued an executive order terminating all cooperation between state law enforcement agencies and corrections departments and ICE, the DHS law enforcement agency charged with protecting national security and public safety by, among other things, enforcing immigration laws. The directive will put more Virginians and law enforcement in danger, according to a Virginia congressman, who condemned the order. “This action creates a dangerous situation where liberal paid protestors can interfere with federal officers who are working hard to get dangerous criminals off our streets,” said Republican John McGuire, who is serving his first House term. “Law enforcement cooperation with local, state and federal agencies is vital to the safety of our Commonwealth.”
Spanberger’s order will undoubtedly attract more criminal aliens like Ortiz, who will feel protected from federal immigration authorities and shielded from deportation. Even for a local government like Fairfax County that has long offered illegal immigrants sanctuary, failing to act against a repeat sexual predator on school grounds takes it to the next level. Now the school will spend taxpayer dollars to “retain an independent outside law firm to conduct a comprehensive review,” according to a statement issued by FCPS Superintendent Michelle Reid. The goal, according to the superintendent, is “to establish a clear understanding of what occurred, when it occurred, and confirm that all policies, procedures, and regulations were properly followed.” The law firm hired by the district, McGuireWoods, claims its experience in high-stakes litigation and government investigations is second to none. “We have represented Fortune 100 companies and individuals in some of the most prominent criminal, regulatory and investigative matters in recent years, repeatedly earning top national accolades,” the firm’s website states. The records obtained by Judicial Watch indicate the firm bills from $700 per hour for associates to $1,850 per hour for senior partners and that the firm agreed to offer FCPS some unspecified “discount.”
Until next week,
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