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Judicial Watch Seeks To Unseal Warrants Behind Giuliani's 2021 Raid

The Sept. 1 filing targets the Manhattan search that seized Giuliani's phone, built on a warrant reaching back to a 2019 iCloud order.

Case No. 21-mc-00425 sits before Judge J. Paul Oetken in Manhattan federal court.
Agents seized Giuliani's cellphone and devices around 6 a.m. on April 28, 2021.
A warrant dated November 4, 2019 ordered Apple to hand over his iCloud account.

Why it matters: A warrant sealed for five years answers to no one until a private citizen pays to pry it open.

Solomon Oliver Jr. ruled in Red Wine & Blue v. LaRose that House Bill 54's sequencing broke what Congress intended.

Red Wine & Blue and the Ohio Alliance for Retired Americans brought the lawsuit.
HB 54 required documentary proof of citizenship at the BMV before registration.
Ohio's registration deadline falls October 5, four weeks before the November 3 election.

Why it matters: Making one bureaucratic approval a gate to a constitutional right rations that right without ever repealing it.

The Justice Department said Aug. 24, 2026 that Pacheco forfeited $219,755 for steering a $4.4 million police contract.

Ricardo Pacheco, Baldwin Park councilman from 1997 to 2020, sentenced to 18 months in federal prison.
FBI agents dug up $62,900 cash from two spots in his backyard.
Compton's Isaac Jacob Galvan, sentenced the same day, had paid Pacheco $70,000 for marijuana permits.

Why it matters: A $4.4 million police contract vote was bought for under $40,000, cash cheap enough to bury.

Approved Sept. 16 by Supervisors Lindsey Horvath and Hilda Solis, the program pays up to $15,000 per household without asking immigration status.

The fund pools $10 million from early 2025 with $19.8 million from the Housing Trust Fund.
Eligible households include wildfire survivors, evicted tenants, small landlords, and immigrant families losing wages to raids.
Applicants qualify by proving wage loss from federal enforcement, not by disclosing their immigration status.

Why it matters: Wrapping the immigration relief inside a wildfire fund lets the county aid people it never has to name.

Fauci wrote the message to NIAID deputy Cliff Lane on March 4, 2012, about H5N1 research scientists nicknamed the doomsday virus.

Sen. Rand Paul's HSGAC committee released the full document package on August 29, 2026.
Fauci then led NIAID; Cliff Lane served as his longtime deputy director.
His exact words: 'Please delete this e-mail and then delete from the deleted file.'

Why it matters: An official who orders his own email erased has already answered the question it raised.

Each crossed the EU's 45 million monthly user threshold and must submit to audits by late November, joining 28 platforms total.

ChatGPT's search function logged 159 million EU monthly users over six months ending March 2026.
Reddit reported 57.2 million monthly EU users, Roblox around 48 million, both above threshold.
New duties: annual risk audits on minors, mental health, elections, plus data access for regulators.

Why it matters: The companies' own disclosed user counts, not any regulator's finding, are what triggered these binding duties.

The FBI found zero evidence tying ex-officer Shauni Kerkhoff to the bombs Cole confessed planting on January 5.

Cole confessed planting the DNC bomb at 7:54 p.m., RNC at 8:26 p.m.
The Blaze's Nov. 8 story claimed a 94-98% "gait match" from an anonymous analyst.
Three of Cole's lawyers, bankrolled by The Blaze, now defend its reporters in Kerkhoff's defamation suit.

Why it matters: The same outlet that named an innocent officer as the bomber now pays the confessed bomber's lawyers.

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