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Tom Fitton's Weekly Update Podcast

January 16, 2026 - Supreme Court Election Law Victory! 800,000 Dirty Names Cleaned from Oregon Voting Rolls!

Tom Fitton's Weekly Update Podcast

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Education, Donald Trump, Irs, Deep State, Tom Fitton, Sanctuary Cities, Judicial Watch, Hillary Clinton, Government, News, Chris Farrell, Politics

4.82K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2026

⏱️ 45 minutes

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You're listening to the Judicial Watch weekly update with Tom Fitton.

0:06.0

Hey everyone, Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton here with our weekly update on social media.

0:13.0

Thanks for joining us.

0:15.0

One of the most important weekly updates you'll hear from me.

0:20.0

It's the announcement. I'm honored to announce that the

0:23.5

Supreme Court of the United States agreed with Judicial Watch. We won 7-2 before the high court

0:31.5

on a very important election integrity issue. The question of whether candidates have the right to challenge election

0:39.4

rules in federal court, have standing to challenge. In this case, we represent Mike Boss,

0:44.8

Congressman from Illinois, two presidential electors who technically were federal candidates

0:50.8

as well, who are challenging Illinois's law that allowed the counting of ballots

0:56.2

that arrived for up to two weeks after election day.

0:59.3

That means ballots could be as late as 14 days after election day and still get counted.

1:04.1

Now federal law sets an election day, not an election week, not an election month, but the

1:08.9

court didn't want to get at the merits.

1:10.5

They said a candidate didn't have standing to challenge this.

1:15.1

And they said, well, he was going to win anyway.

1:17.8

We're like, well, that's ridiculous because he has a right to an accurate count.

1:21.1

He has an inherent right to challenge unlawful election rules on making him, for instance, spend money and time and effort and

1:31.8

concern and anxiety related to the counting of ballots that occur after election day.

1:38.4

And the Supreme Court agreed with us completely and came up and concluded, really affirmed what has been the law prior, frankly,

1:46.8

the 2020, that candidates have a broad standing right in federal court. Again, it was 7-2.

1:55.1

It was five votes in favor of the broadest possible standing, two votes in favor of a narrow standing,

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