An illegal migrant gangbanger allegedly offered thousands of dollars to kill one of the top enforcers of the Trump administration’s immigration agenda. Federal law enforcement agents arrested Juan Espinoza Martinez, a criminal illegal migrant and member of the ruthless Latin Kings gang, on Monday, according to the Department of Homeland Security (DHS). Martinez is accused […]

(Washington, DC) – Judicial Watch announced today that oral argument will be held on Wednesday, October 8, 2025, in the Supreme Court of the United States in a historic case filed on behalf of Congressman Mike Bost and two presidential electors, who are 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 (Rep. Michael J. Bost, Laura Pollastrini, and Susan Sweeney v. The Illinois State Board of Elections and Bernadette Matthews (No. 1:22-cv-02754, 23-2644, 24-568)).

The case concerns whether Bost and the electors have standing to challenge Illinois’ counting of ballots that arrive after the Election Day deadlines set by federal law. The Election Day lawsuit was initially filed on May 25, 2022. A lower court dismissed the claim for lack of standing, which was upheld by a split 2-1 panel for the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit.

“This is the most important Supreme Court election law case in a generation. Too many courts have denied candidates their right to challenge unlawful election rules such as the outrageous act of counting ballots that arrive AFTER Election Day. American citizens concerned about election integrity will tune in closely to Judicial Watch’s Supreme Court arguments Wednesday,” said Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton.

Judicial Watch’s September brief to the High Court states:

Illinois counts mail-in ballots received up to two weeks after Election Day. Petitioners, candidates for federal office, claim that under controlling federal law that is two weeks too long. As a result, Illinois is counting unlawful ballots and producing inaccurate vote tallies, while simultaneously hurting petitioners’ prospects at the ballot box and injuring their pocketbooks. 

Judicial Watch submits that the Seventh Circuit’s decision is wrong and dangerous:

It is wrong because candidates have standing to challenge the rules that govern their elections, especially when their merits theory (which must be credited for standing purposes) is that the challenged rule produces an inaccurate final tally. At a minimum, the candidate has standing when (as here) he plausibly alleges that the challenged rule will harm his electoral prospects and reduce his bank balance because he needs to pay campaign staff an extra two weeks. And the decision is dangerous because it forces judges to play political prognosticators, skews standing rules to favor certain kinds of candidates, and funnels election disputes to the worst possible context—namely, after the election where judges are asked to declare political winners. This Court should reverse.

Judicial Watch states that Bost has standing to challenge the Illinois law:

At the very least, Congressman Bost has standing to challenge the Illinois ballot-receipt deadline here, as a host of diverse amici confirm. Congressman Bost plausibly alleged a substantial risk that counting mail-in ballots received after Election Day will harm his electoral prospects both by risking electoral defeat and reducing his margin of victory. The plausibility of those allegations was amply reinforced by the Illinois Democratic Party’s attempted intervention and voting and litigation patterns nationwide.  And he has also plausibly alleged a classic pocketbook injury because he expended additional campaign funds as a direct result of the state’s extended deadline for receiving mail-in ballots.  Here too, the notion that an election artificially extended a fortnight costs more than one that ends on Election Day hardly strains credulity. The state’s contrary arguments lack merit.

In its previous Supreme Court brief, Judicial Watch states:

Federal law sets the first Tuesday after the first Monday in November as the federal Election Day. 

***

Candidates have an obvious interest in the lawfulness and fairness of the rules that govern the elections into which they pour their time and resources. They also have an obvious interest “in ensuring that the final vote tally accurately reflects the legally valid votes cast.”

***

Candidates pour enormous resources into running for election and have an obvious interest in the rules that dictate how long their races will last and how the ballots will be counted. They also have a distinct interest “in ensuring that the final vote tally accurately reflects the legally valid votes cast.”

Judicial Watch is a national leader in voting integrity and voting rights. As part of its work, Judicial Watch assembled a team of highly experienced voting rights attorneys who stopped discriminatory elections in Hawaii and cleaned up voter rolls across the country, among other achievements.

Robert Popper, a Judicial Watch senior attorney, leads its election law program. Popper was previously in the Voting Section of the Civil Rights Division of the Justice Department, where he managed voting rights investigations, litigations, consent decrees, and settlements in dozens of states.

Paul Clement, who has argued more than 100 cases before the Supreme Court, is representing Congressman Bost and the electors with Judicial Watch before the Supreme Court. Clement is former solicitor general under President George W. Bush from 2005-2008 and is widely regarded as among the top Supreme Court litigators in the country.

T. Russell Nobile, a Judicial Watch senior attorney, is part of Judicial Watch’s voting integrity efforts and focuses on campaign and voting issues, civil rights issues, constitutional law, official misconduct by public institutions and officials, and other issues. 

Eric Lee is an attorney at Judicial Watch, where he focuses on enforcing federal and state laws that promote transparency and integrity in the electoral process. Eric graduated with his B.A. from St. Mary’s College of Maryland and received his J.D. from the University of Maryland School of Law. He is licensed to practice in California, Maryland, the District of Columbia, and in federal courts in Illinois and Colorado.

Judicial Watch recently filed a brief to the U.S. Supreme Court on behalf of the Libertarian Party of Mississippi, opposing the State of Mississippi’s attempt to overturn the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit’s decision, which struck down a law allowing ballots received after Election Day to be counted.

Federal courts in Oregon, California and Illinois recently ruled that Judicial Watch’s lawsuits against those states may proceed forcing them to clean their voter rolls.

Judicial Watch announced in May that its work led to the removal of more than five million ineligible names from voter rolls nationwide.

###

The post Judicial Watch: Supreme Court Oral Argument on Wednesday in Historic Illinois Election Integrity Case appeared first on Judicial Watch.

ZZelda Williams, the daughter of acclaimed actor Robin Williams – who tragically died in 2014 at the age of 63 – has begged fans to stop sending her AI-generated videos of her late father.

The post Daughter of Robin Williams Begs People to Stop Sending AI Videos of Her Deceased Dad: ‘You’re Not Making Art’ appeared first on Breitbart.

The leftist-led Wisconsin Elections Commission quickly appealed the ruling demanding it verify voters are U.S. citizens.

Discrepancies between ADP and the BLS are vast.

'It is a disgrace'

Democrats are pushing back on Trump administration claims that Chicago is a "war zone" even as the evidence shows more than 32,000 people have been shot in the Windy City during the past decade alone. 

The post War Zone: Chicago Sees over 32,000 Shooting Victims in Last Decade Alone appeared first on Breitbart.

Left-wing comedian and former The View co-host Rosie O'Donnell is currently applying for Irish citizenship and the White House couldn't be happier.

The post Trump White House Celebrates Rosie O’Donnell Applying for Irish Citizenship: ‘Great News for America’ appeared first on Breitbart.

With a series of redistricting battles happening across the nation — particularly in California and Texas — you would think that the Democrats and Republicans would be scrambling to take […]

The post Libs Look to Cut Off Nose to Spite Face As Lefty Primaries One of Few Capitol Hill Dems in Deep-Red Trump Country appeared first on The Western Journal.

Only two jurisdictions have changed their policies under the Trump administration to allow police and sheriffs to assist U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers in making arrests.

Democrats believe healthcare is an issue that resonates with a majority of Americans as they demand an extension of subsidies in exchange for their votes to reopen the shuttered U.S. government.

Country music singer Zach Bryan dropped part of a new single over the weekend on YouTube in which he broadly portrayed police officers as “cocky motherf***ers” and depicted ICE agents […]

The post Country Singer Zach Bryan Goes Woke, Portrays ICE as Child-Scaring Villains in Vulgar New Song appeared first on The Western Journal.

STOCKHOLM—Following reports indicating Sweden might consider restarting its nuclear program, the supreme commander of the Swedish armed forces denied the rumor.  

“No, they’re not,” Chief of Defense Gen. Michael Claesson said when asked whether the rumors about a nuclear program were true.  

“We had a nuclear weapons program that was terminated in the 1960s, and there is no plan to restart that right now,” Claesson told The Daily Signal.  

Sweden is one of more than 190 countries that have ratified the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, an agreement aimed at restricting the spread of nuclear weapons. Furthermore, as of last year, Sweden is a part of the “the deterrence system of NATO,” and, according to Claesson, “there is no further need for any arrangement that includes nuclear weapons. So, we are happy with the current arrangements.” 

Multiple news outlets, including the Daily Mail, have in recent days reported that some political leaders in Sweden are interested in restarting a nuclear program.  

Interest in the nuclear program comes as Russia continues to present a threat to the region. For decades, Sweden declined the opportunity to join NATO, but after Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine in 2022, Sweden made the choice to join NATO and is now outperforming many longtime member countries on defense spending.  

While Sweden does not border Russia, a Russian missile could reach parts of Sweden, the general explained. The threat of Russia has driven Sweden not only to join NATO but also ramp up weapons production.  

Russia is not deterred by “flag-waving,” Claesson said, adding that “they really have to believe in the strength that you are possessing and that you are showcasing, and that’s what we do. That’s our trade.”  

Sweden produces its own combat aircraft, combat vehicles, over-snow vehicles, and submarines, and aims with all production, according to the general, to ensure that all military products are top-class.  

Sweden, like many other European countries and the U.S., continues to provide support for Ukraine some three-and-a-half years into a war many thought would end after a matter of months. 

Russia has “proven that their abilities do not lie in combat techniques, tactics, operational art, or anything like that. It lies in mass,” Claesson said. “The tremendous amounts of losses that they are capable of absorbing is frightening, and it’s intimidating, really, from a human perspective, to see how much they are ready to invest and to lose in terms of human life and human sacrifice.”  

In June, the Center for Strategic and International Studies estimated Russian casualties in the war were likely to hit 1 million over the summer, but it’s impossible to ascertain an accurate number, since Russia does not share that information publicly.  

Because Russia is a “de facto dictatorship,” Claesson said, Russian President Vladimir Putin can also institute a war economy and increase production of weapons inside the country in a way that is more challenging in the West.  

But when it comes to military tactics, the general thinks “it’s fair to say that the Ukrainians have proven in so many domains that they are superior in their approach of military problem-solving,” adding, “at the end of the day, I think that it’s an uneven match in terms of military thinking and operational art advantage for the Ukrainians. But then again, the Russian advantage, as always in history has and is still mass.”  

Putin, according to Claesson, does not want a war with NATO or the U.S., and will only be brought to the negotiating table in earnest to end the war through displays of strength, because “what he respects is strength.”  

The post Sweden’s Top Military General Quashes Rumors of Nation’s Nuclear Weapons Intent appeared first on The Daily Signal.

Pritzker said that Texas National Guard troops should, 'stay the hell out of Illinois.'

Liberal hypocrites still back the Virginia AG candidate even after texts show him fantasizing about murdering GOP lawmaker.

The Biden FBI targeted eight Republican senators’ personal cell phone information as part of an investigation that evolved into lawfare against Donald Trump, new records published Monday show. The agency document released by Senate Judiciary Committee Chair Chuck Grassley, R-Iowa, indicates that the FBI sought and obtained the cell phone “tolling data” of eight GOP […]

Judge Boardman may not be interested in deterring the next Nicholas Roske, but Congress has the power to deter the next Boardman. 

To state what should be obvious but isn’t to most members of Congress, an Obamacare bailout wouldn’t make anything more 'affordable.'