The Federation for American Immigration Reform has filed lawsuits against five Los Angeles police agencies related to their actions during the riots against ICE agents earlier this year.
The lawsuits seek to compel the agencies, including the Los Angeles Police Department, the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department and the California Highway Patrol, to produce records from that period. The lawsuit was filed in Los Angeles County Superior Court and cites the California Public Records Act.
The legal action stems from FAIR’s Sept. 5 investigative report on the L.A. Anti-ICE Riots. The report concluded that the unrest in June was not from spontaneous protests, but was a coordinated campaign of violence financed and organized by anti-border activists and foreign actors.
The report said the organized street violence sabotaged federal immigration enforcement, endangered public safety, and caused significant human and economic losses — including fatalities, injuries, hundreds of arrests, and nearly $20 million in property damage.
In conjunction with the report, FAIR made public information requests to the five Los Angeles law enforcement agencies. It sought records of communications between the agencies and outside groups, arrest and booking details, injury reports and federal assistance logs.
FAIR said it received “inadequate responses” on top of “unlawful delays” and “improper denials.”
“These lawsuits are crucial to bring transparency to local law enforcement’s role in the L.A. anti-ICE riots,” said Dale Wilcox, FAIR’s executive director and general counsel.
Activists go after Citizens United
Liberal activists are taking another stab at tearing down the Supreme Court’s landmark Citizens United decision — going one state at a time, starting with a ballot initiative in Montana.
The Transparent Election Initiative is following the playbook developed by fellow activists at the Center for American Progress. The strategy, outlined in a recent report, is for a state-by-state effort to render Citizens United “irrelevant.”
Democrats and their liberal allies have long challenged the justices’ 2010 ruling that struck down restrictions on corporate money in politics. The ruling enabled corporations and other outside groups to spend unlimited amounts on political campaigns through entities such as Super PACs.
“The legal strategy developed by the Center for American Progress — the ’Corporate Power Reset’— will, state by state, drain corporate and dark money from American politics. It does not overturn Citizens United; it makes it irrelevant,” said the Center for American Progress.
Its report details how every state can use unlimited authority to modify and withdraw the powers they grant to their corporations “to remove corporate and dark money from its local, state and federal politics.”
Following the plan, the Transparent Election Initiative is trying to amend the state constitution via a ballot initiative.
Heritage Action in Virginia House races
The political arm of the conservative Heritage Foundation think tank sees an opportunity to flip the House of Delegates in Virginia, where Democrats hold a narrow control of 51-49.
Heritage Action announced a major effort by targeting four key districts that will determine the balance of power in Richmond.
The organization is investing significant resources on Republican challengers, namely Sean Steinway in District 65, Felisha Storm in District 84 and Timothy Anderson in District 97.
Heritage Action is also supporting District 89 Republican Delegate Mike Lamonea in advertising and targeted voter outreach.
“Virginia is the frontline of the fight for America’s future. The only way to stop the Left’s radical takeover is to win elections. That starts by flipping key seats in Virginia and standing firm for faith, family, and freedom,” said Heritage Action Executive Vice President Tiffany Justice.
As part of its Virginia Battle Plan 2025, Heritage Action is rolling out a statewide campaign to emphasize candidates who have embraced a liberal agenda, which includes supporting legislation for forced Virginia schools to allow transgender students in girls’ bathrooms.
Heritage Action’s investment includes on-the-ground grassroots operations, data-driven voter contact, and digital engagement across all four districts to mobilize voters to turn out at the polls.
Sex-change treatments steeped in politics: report
A new Manhattan Institute report concluded that the Texas Medical Association bent to political pressure as it influenced national medical support for gender-affirming care.
Through internal documents and interviews with TMA members, policy analyst Joseph Figliolia builds a timeline showing the incentives and political pressure that led nearly every major medical association to endorse gender-affirming care.
According to Mr. Figliolia’s findings, the Texas Medical Association’s LGBTQ Health Section achieved massive influence. Members of an LGBTQ “affiliation group” became seen as de facto experts on transgender health care, allowed them to influence the policymaking prior to consideration by TMA’s House of Delegates.
Yet, the LGBTQ Health Section was incredibly unpopular. A TMA internal survey found that only 1% of members stated that affirming care was among the top organizational priorities.
Despite this data, transcripts show that LGBTQ Section members deployed vague or misleading language to “Trojan horse” unpopular policies, according to Mr. Figliola.
