NEI Files Lawsuit to Reverse Interior’s Withdrawal of Land From Uranium Mining

WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Nuclear Energy Institute, together with the National Mining Association (NMA), has filed a lawsuit in U.S. Federal District Court in Arizona seeking to reverse the Obama administration’s withdrawal of approximately 1 million acres of federal land in the Arizona Strip for uranium mining for 20 years.

JW Files Two Amicus Curiae Briefs with Supreme Court Supporting Arizona’s Illegal Immigration Law SB 1070

Judicial Watch, former Arizona State Senator Russell Pearce and State Legislators for Legal Immigration Ask Court to Reverse Appellate Court Ruling Placing Key Provisions on Hold

U.S. Border Patrol helicopter along El Camino del Diablo, Arizona-Sonora border. Via Wikipedia

Washington, D.C. – Judicial Watch, the public interest group that investigates and fights government corruption, announced today that it has filed two separate amicus curiae briefs with the U.S. Supreme Court in support of SB 1070, also known as the Support Our Law Enforcement and Safe Neighborhoods Act.  On April 11, 2011, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit upheld an injunction against enforcement of some of the law’s provisions per the request of the Obama administration, prompting the State of Arizona to petition the

Judicial Watch Sues Obama Administration for Mortgage Lenders’ Documents

Judicial Watch Sues Obama Administration for Documents Detailing Secret Settlement Negotiations with Mortgage Lenders Accused of Faulty Mortgage Practices. Obama DOJ and HUD Ignore Freedom of Information Act Requests on Effort to Extract $20 Billion from Banking Industry

Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. Image credit: Judicial Watch

Washington, D.C. – Judicial Watch, the organization that investigates and fights government corruption, announced today that it filed a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) lawsuit on January 3, 2012, against the Obama Department of Justice (DOJ) and U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) to obtain documents pertaining to accusations of fraud against the nation’s five largest mortgage companies and the creation of “federal accounts” to settle probes into faulty mortgage practices (Judicial Watch v. HUD and DOJ (No. 1:12-cv-0002)).

The Obama administration has reportedly been engaged in settlement negotiations behind closed doors with mortgage companies that would result in at least $20

Solyndra: So Bankrupt, So Many Questions for the White House

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Crony Capitalism and the Failed Green Energy Dream

Washington, D.C.—Today, the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations conducted a hearing on the bankruptcy of Solyndra, the recipient of a $535 million federal loan guarantee and the poster child of President Obama’s green stimulus.

Judicial Watch Statement Regarding the Arrest of Barack Obama’s Illegal Alien Uncle Omar

Omar Obama, Barack Obama's Uncle

Washington, DC — Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton issued the following statement today in response to the controversy surrounding President Obama’s illegal alien uncle, who was arrested last week for drunk driving after leaving the Chicken Bone Saloon, in Framingham, Massachusetts, and nearly hitting a police car.