Author: Freedom Watch

Jimmy Carter: Kavanaugh is ‘unfit’ to be a Supreme Court justice TheHill October 18, 2018 Former President Jimmy Carter harshly criticized newly appointed Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh, calling him “unfit” to serve on the court. Speaking to a class at Emory University in Atlanta on Wednesday, Carter said that Kavanaugh’s behavior during his confirmation hearings demonstrated that his appointment was “a very serious mistake,” according to Emory’s independent, student-run newspaper, The Emory Wheel. Continue Reading…..

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‘A Classic Anti-Semite’: Dershowitz Says ‘All Decent People’ Must Condemn Farrakhan Fox News Insider October 18, 2018 Harvard Law professor and longtime Democrat Alan Dershowitz blasted Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan Thursday, calling on “all decent people” to condemn him after his most recent anti-Semitic comments. At an event in Detroit, Farrakhan pushed back on those who say he’s anti-Semitic by labeling Jews as “termites.” “So when they talk about Farrakhan, call me a hater, you know what they do, call me an anti-Semite, stop it. I’m anti-termite. I don’t know nothing about hating somebody because of…

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By Quint Forgey POLITICO October 17, 2018 Joe Arpaio, the controversial former sheriff of Maricopa County, Arizona, has filed a libel suit against The New York Times and a member of its editorial board. In a complaint filed Tuesday evening with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, the ex-lawman takes issue with a Times opinion piece published just after Arpaio’s loss in the state’s Republican primary for U.S. Senate. The article — “Well, at Least Sheriff Joe Isn’t Going to Congress: Arpaio’s loss in Arizona’s Senate Republican primary is a fitting end to the public life…

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By John Wagner Washington Post October 17, 2018 Joe Arpaio, the former Arizona sheriff who finished a distant third this year in a Republican Senate primary, filed a libel suit Tuesday night against the New York Times and a member of its editorial board, arguing that they had undercut his chances for another run. In a complaint filed with the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, Arpaio took issue with an opinion piece written after the August GOP primary titled, “Well, at Least Sheriff Joe Isn’t Going to Congress: Arpaio’s loss in Arizona’s Senate Republican primary is…

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(Washington, D.C., October 17, 2018). Today, legal counsel for Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Larry Klayman, the founder of both Judicial Watch and now Freedom Watch and a former federal prosecutor, announced the filing of a lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia (Civil Action No. 1:18-cv-02387) against the New York Times (NYT) and its editorial page reporter Michelle Cottle for alleged defamation per se, tortious interference with prospective business advantage and false light. The complaint can be found at www.freedomwatchusa.org and was filed as part of Freedom Watch’s Leftist Media Strike Force, which seeks to hold…

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(Washington, D.C., October 15, 2018). Today Larry Klayman, the founder of both Judicial Watch and Freedom Watch and now the general counsel of Freedom Watch, as well as a former federal prosecutor of the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice who was on the trial team that broke up the AT&T monopoly, announced that the law firm of Bill and Hillary Clinton has entered its appearance in this case (Freedom Watch, Inc. v. Google/YouTube et. al (Civil Action No. 18-cv-2030), which was recently filed in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia alleging an illegal…

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Opinion | Let’s not buy the Republican spin on Brett Kavanaugh By Jennifer Rubin Washington Post October 14, 2018 President Trump and Republican Senate leaders proclaimed after Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh’s confirmation that it was a huge win for the party. The GOP base is engaged. This will turn around the midterms! Unfortunately, with very little analysis and zero polling, scores of male pundits (not to mention right-wing publications) touted this as fact. Some of us warned that, contrary to Republican spin, the Kavanaugh fight would likely light a fire under female voters — who were already peeved…

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