Judicial Watch, Inc., a conservative, non-partisan educational foundation, promotes transparency, accountability and integrity in government, politics and the law. Through its educational endeavors, Judicial Watch advocates high standards of ethics and morality in our nation’s public life and seeks to ensure that political and judicial officials do not abuse the powers entrusted to them by the American people. Judicial Watch fulfills its educational mission through litigation, investigations, and public outreach.
The motto of Judicial Watch is “Because no one is above the law”. To this end, Judicial Watch uses the open records or freedom of information laws and other tools to investigate and uncover misconduct by government officials and litigation to hold to account politicians and public officials who engage in corrupt activities.
Litigation and the civil discovery process not only uncover information for the education of the American people on anti-corruption issues, but can also provide a basis for civil authorities to criminally prosecute corrupt officials. Judicial Watch seeks to ensure high ethical standards in the judiciary through monitoring activities and the use of the judicial ethics process to hold judges to account.
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Through its Open Records Project, Judicial Watch also provides training and legal services to other conservatives concerning how to effectively use the Freedom of Information Act and other open records laws to achieve conservative goals of accountability and openness in government.
Through its publication The Verdict and occasional special reports, Judicial Watch educates the public about abuses and misconduct by political and judicial officials, and advocates for the need for an ethical, law abiding and moral civic culture.
Judicial Watch also pursues this educational effort through this Internet site where many of the open records documents, legal filings, and other educational materials are made available to the public and media. This educational effort, which includes direct mailings to millions of Americans, educates the public about operations of government and the judiciary and increases public awareness if corruption and misconduct exists.
WATCH: WHERE ARE THE PROSECUTIONS?! Once again, newly released documents and damning evidence conclusively substantiate what many Americans have long suspected. Russiagate was a conspiracy — hatched, implemented and relentlessly promoted by top officials in the CIA, FBI and across the Obama-Biden-Clinton political machine to rig a presidential election and undermine a duly elected […]
In a double win for Judicial Watch and clean elections, federal courts in California and Illinois separately ruled this week that our lawsuits may proceed against those states to force them to clean up their dirty voter rolls. Our lawsuits allege that both California and Illinois violated the National Voter Registration Act, which requires states to “conduct a […]
Violent gang members, murderers and sex offenders have infiltrated the United States through a special government program that provides illegal immigrants under the age of 21 who claim to be abused, abandoned or neglected by a parent with a pathway to residency and citizenship. In the last ten years more than 300,000 migrants have applied […]
Years after Judicial Watch reported that the government’s system to verify if employees are authorized to work legally in the United States approved hundreds of thousands of illegal immigrants, federal authorities have uncovered widespread identity theft at a meat processing plant that used the defective tool to screen 100% of its staff. A recent Immigration and Customs […]
Last year the U.S. Military Academy at West Point under President Biden removed the words “Duty, Honor and Country” from its mission statement, and in doing so it demonstrated a total lack of honor. Judicial Watch received 445 pages of records from the U.S. Military Academy at West Point revealing that speakers at the March 2024 “Founders […]
WATCH: Five Million Names Removed from Voter Rolls Nationwide A major milestone in our work to clean up voter rolls! Over the last several years, our analysis and use of voter registration lists have led to lawsuits and legal actions under the National Voter Registration Act (NVRA) that have resulted in the removal of five million names from […]
Maryland is finally learning what other states have learned: federal law requires transparency in the voting process. District Court Judge Matthew J. Maddox of the U.S. District Court for the District of Maryland struck down a Maryland State Board of Elections regulation that restricted and criminalized the use of voter registration lists for voter fraud and other […]
President Trump’s temporary funding freeze to reign in Biden’s spending binge has ignited outrage among the left and an ongoing Judicial Watch case that has already exposed $505 million dollars (and counting) in government waste helps illustrate why the new order is vital to protect American taxpayers. It involves awarding billions of dollars to a “grassroots […]
WATCH: Vance ‘heartbroken’ over U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops condemnation over illegal immigration There’s good reason for JD Vance to be “heartbroken” over the left-leaning U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops. It isn’t about faith and righteousness for them. Their support for illegal immigration is all about the gravy train, as Robert Spencer wrote in 2021: The bishops, of […]
Washington, D,C. — Judicial Watch announced today it sued Chicago Mayor Brandon Johnson for records regarding his vow to resist the Trump administration’s mass deportation and other immigration law enforcement activities (Judicial Watch Inc. v. Office of the Mayor (No. 2025-CH-00347)). On November 11, 2024, the mayor held a press conference at which he stated that Chicago would […]
The Left hasn’t caught on yet that Donald Trump is a fighter who doesn’t fold easily. As our chief investigative reporter, Micah Morrison, reports, Trump’s win at the polls helped lead to wins in the courts. Pundits and historians will be a long time sorting out the magnitude of Donald Trump’s electoral victory but one thing […]
Washington, D.C. – Judicial Watch announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) for records about to the $27 million in U.S. grants awarded to “Miscellaneous Foreign Awardees” that have been designated for use in Gaza (Judicial Watch v. U.S. Agency for International Development (No. […]
Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton appeared on CSPAN’s “After Words” with Alex Swoyer of the Washington Times to discuss issues many issues addressed in his new book, “Rights and Freedoms in Peril: an Investigative Report on the Left’s Attack on America.” WATCH: FITTON: Chaos on our Border, Anti-Trump Lawfare, CRT/DEI Insanity, and MORE HISTORIC […]
Washington, D.C. – Judicial Watch announced today that the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit has issued an opinion reversing a lower court ruling on Mississippi’s election law that permitted absentee ballots to be received as late as five business days after Election Day. Earlier this year, Judicial Watch filed the civil rights lawsuit challenging the Mississippi election […]
It’s an unfortunate reality that the radical leftist Biden-Harris administration is trying to set our military against conservative American citizens. Judicial Watch has had to sue after being denied basic records about the Army’s targeting of pro-life Christians and that makes the scandal even worse. We filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit against the U.S. […]