Biden judge declares ban on noncitizens voting 'unconstitutional' weeks before midterms
OCTOBER 05, 2026
A former prosecutor in the New York attorney general’s office claims that Letitia James is threatening him after he blew the whistle on a scheme to take down President Trump – as he refuses to delete evidence of the alleged corruption.
Daniel Wiesenfeld, who worked in James’ Investor Protection Bureau before he was axed last month, defiantly told his former boss Monday he would not be handing over “confidential and privileged” materials, according to email obtained by the Times-Union.
The blistering email also included a photo of a detective’s business card from the AG’s Executive Protection Detail that had been jammed into his front door, the paper reported.
“I am in receipt of your September 18th letter threatening me with ‘professional discipline, as well as civil and/or criminal action’ and your subsequent September 30th letter providing a deadline by 5pm today for me to confirm my destruction of your ‘confidential and/or privileged information’,” Wiesenfeld wrote Monday.
“You have also commissioned your ‘protection detail’ detectives to repeatedly hound me by banging on my front door. Attached is the business card one of them left in my door after their latest intrusion,” he continued in the email, which was also sent to Kumiki Gibson, general counsel in the attorney general’s office.
Wiesenfeld said he understands that James is “fearful” of what he might do with the “‘confidential and privileged’ materials” ahead of this year’s election, in which James is on the ballot — but said he would not be intimidated by her threats.
“These documents are simply evidence and your threats will not compel me to destroy such evidence,” he said. “If anything, carrying out your threats by bringing this to a legal forum will make this information public.”
Wiesenfeld’s latest email comes months after he sent an agency-wide email to the AG’s office claiming his supervisor ordered him to find and pursue crimes committed by those affiliated with Trump — James’ longstanding rival.
“If you believe Trump is using the [Department of Justice] attorneys to prosecute his enemies and further his political interests, you should find it equally troubling that Tish [James] is doing exactly the same thing,” Wiesenfeld allegedly wrote in the message, which went to some 2,000 staffers before it was deleted.
Wiesenfeld was subsequently placed on administrative leave and fired on Sept. 5, according to the Times Union.
A rep for James dismissed the controversy as “a personnel matter” in a statement in August.
“The office of the attorney general is committed to upholding New York’s laws and protecting the rights and freedoms of all New Yorkers, regardless of political beliefs,” the statement said. “We strongly reject any assertion to the contrary.”
A troubled one-time Marine recruit who was transitioning to live as a trans woman has admitted to stabbing a hiker to death in Arizona — having told cops she was “what I would want to look like.”
Zion Teasley, 25, pleaded guilty to murdering beauty technician Lauren Heike, 29, in a deal that took the death penalty off the table.
The felon, who had left the Marines just months after going through bootcamp, will instead spend the rest of his life in prison for killing the hiker, who was found dead by neighbors at the foot of a barbed wire fence with 15 stab wounds off a Phoenix trail in 2023.

Before the murder, Teasley wrote in his diary that he was “battling with my gender identity and sexuality,” which he believed was conflicting with his Christian faith, according to a 400-page police report on the killing obtained by ABC 15 last year.
While California is already notorious for having a massive welfare state — accompanied by massive amounts of welfare fraud — a new report revealed the extent to which California handouts bankroll illegal aliens.
The report from City Journal fellow Christopher Rufo, joined by Kenneth Schrupp and Austen Hufford, even described the programs as a “shadow welfare system.”
Among other benefits, foreigners can receive “health care, rental assistance, college grants, tax credits, low-cost car insurance, and even smartphones on the taxpayers’ dime,” the report said.
The team from the City Journal visited four welfare offices in California — where employees admitted that illegal aliens can receive the benefits, or accept benefits on behalf of their children.ain
That spending amounted to $11 billion of subsidies for illegal aliens in the previous fiscal year alone.
“If you were born here and the child was born here, you get money for two,” a welfare officer in Los Angeles said of CalWORKS, which provides short-term cash assistance to families.
“Because she is not and the child is, she only gets money for the child, and not for her.”
According to the City Journal, a family with two parents who are illegal aliens, two children born in the United States, and one grandparent in the country illegally can rake in $100,000 of welfare per year.
Even though “federal law generally prohibits states from using federal dollars to serve illegal aliens,” the City Journal noted that “to dodge those restrictions, California created parallel state- and locally funded programs that allowed the state to extend benefits to illegal immigrants.”
For instance, while Medicaid funds cannot provide wraparound coverage for illegal aliens, California used “a state-funding ‘bucket’ within its Medi-Cal program to extend ‘full-scope’ coverage to illegal aliens.”
“The expansions enrolled some 1.7 million people, costing the state an estimated $10 billion annually — more than twice what the state legislative analyst originally projected,” the report added.
California Democratic Gov. Gavin Newsom, a likely presidential contender in the 2028 election cycle, has signed expansions of welfare programs for illegal aliens.
Just weeks ahead of the midterm election, a federal judge appointed by former President Joe Biden took aim at the federal law barring foreigners from voting in American elections, characterizing it as "unconstitutional."
Chelsea Cox is a Jamaican national who came to the United States on a tourist visa in 1999. According to the Justice Department, Cox — who never bothered going home after her visa expired and presently has no legal status in the country — used a fraudulent U.S. Virgin Islands birth certificate to obtain a Florida driver's license in April 2000.
'Leftist judges are trying to invalidate the federal law prohibiting noncitizen voting.'
Cox was charged in the Southern District of Florida last October for allegedly using her false identity to vote unlawfully in the 2020 election. Citing Cox's voter history, the Justice Department alleged that the Jamaican also voted in the general elections in 2012, 2016, and 2018.
Federal law — 18 U.S.C. § 611 — prohibits any foreign national from voting "in any election held solely or in part for the purpose of electing a candidate for the office of President, Vice President, Presidential elector, Member of the Senate, Member of the House of Representatives, Delegate from the District of Columbia, or Resident Commissioner" unless he or she permanently resided in the U.S. prior to turning 16, has citizen parents, and/or reasonably believed at the time of voting that he or she was a citizen.
The Jamaican's attorney argued that the states, not Congress, alone "can establish the qualifications of electors for federal elections" and that as such, Section 611 is "facially unconstitutional."
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U.S. District Judge David Leibowitz, the Biden-appointed nephew of billionaire car magnate Norman Braman, embraced the defense's argument and dismissed the case on Thursday, stating that "the text, structure, and original public meaning of the Constitution show that Congress does not have the constitutional power to enact this statute."
Leibowitz rejected the government's arguments that the law can be "'sustained on the basis of Congress' broad authority over immigration and foreign affairs,' which empowers Congress to legislate against '[f]oreign interference in elections,'" claiming that while such authority is "broad indeed,"
the Court finds no reason to conclude that an exercise of Congress’s “plenary powers” over immigration and foreign affairs would override the “foundational constitutional constraints” set out in the Voter Qualification Clauses.
While the Miami-based Biden judge said that "one can assume that the Defendant committed every element of the crime established by Section 611," he concluded ultimately that "Chelsea Cox cannot be prosecuted for an alleged violation of an unconstitutional statute."
Leibowitz did, however, note that Florida can "prohibit and punish the exact conduct Defendant Cox allegedly engaged in here," and that this case does not address whether the Trump administration can deport Cox.
Blaze News did not immediately receive a response from Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier's office.
Bruce Udolf, an attorney for the Jamaican, told NBC News that his client was "ecstatic" over the ruling.
"We were gratified by the court’s ruling and would hope that the government would not take this matter further as far as deportation is concerned," said Udolf. "This person has lived peacefully and responsibly in this country for 30 years, and she is in very ill health and desperately needs a medical attention that would not otherwise be available to her in Jamaica."
The Biden judge's ruling was condemned by those keen to see only Americans voting in American elections.
James Percival, general counsel for the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, said of Leibowitz's ruling, "A Biden appointed judge in Florida says that federal bans on noncitizen voting are unconstitutional. The thing that never happens is now 'constitutionally protected activity!'"
"First leftist senators blocked the SAVE America Act, insisting that 'noncitizens don’t vote.' Now leftist judges are trying to invalidate the federal law prohibiting noncitizen voting," wrote Utah Sen. Mike Lee (R). "If you find this unacceptable, vote for Republicans in November."
The government has appealed the ruling to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 11th Circuit.
1. U.S. acceptance of coexistence as the only alternative to atomic war.
2. U.S. willingness to capitulate in preference to engaging in atomic war.
3. Develop the illusion that total disarmament of the United States would be a demonstration of moral strength.
4. Permit free trade between all nations regardless of Communist affiliation and regardless of whether or not items could be used for war.
5. Extension of long-term loans to Russia and Soviet satellites.
6. Provide American aid to all nations regardless of Communist domination.
7. Grant recognition of Red China. Admission of Red China to the U.N.
8. Set up East and West Germany as separate states in spite of Khrushchev's promise in 1955 to settle the German question by free elections under supervision of the U.N.
9. Prolong the conferences to ban atomic tests because the United States has agreed to suspend tests as long as negotiations are in progress.
10. Allow all Soviet satellites individual representation in the U.N.
11. Promote the U.N. as the only hope for mankind. If its charter is rewritten, demand that it be set up as a one-world government with its own independent armed forces. (Some Communist leaders believe the world can be taken over as easily by the U.N. as by Moscow. Sometimes these two centers compete with each other as they are now doing in the Congo.)
12. Resist any attempt to outlaw the Communist Party.
13. Do away with all loyalty oaths.
14. Continue giving Russia access to the U.S. Patent Office.
15. Capture one or both of the political parties in the United States.
16. Use technical decisions of the courts to weaken basic American institutions by claiming their activities violate civil rights.
17. Get control of the schools. Use them as transmission belts for socialism and current Communist propaganda. Soften the curriculum. Get control of teachers' associations. Put the party line in textbooks.
18. Gain control of all student newspapers.
19. Use student riots to foment public protests against programs or organizations which are under Communist attack.
20. Infiltrate the press. Get control of book-review assignments, editorial writing, policymaking positions.
21. Gain control of key positions in radio, TV, and motion pictures.
22. Continue discrediting American culture by degrading all forms of artistic expression. An American Communist cell was told to "eliminate all good sculpture from parks and buildings, substitute shapeless, awkward and meaningless forms."
23. Control art critics and directors of art museums. "Our plan is to promote ugliness, repulsive, meaningless art."
24. Eliminate all laws governing obscenity by calling them "censorship" and a violation of free speech and free press.
25. Break down cultural standards of morality by promoting pornography and obscenity in books, magazines, motion pictures, radio, and TV.
26. Present homosexuality, degeneracy and promiscuity as "normal, natural, healthy."
27. Infiltrate the churches and replace revealed religion with "social" religion. Discredit the Bible and emphasize the need for intellectual maturity which does not need a "religious crutch."
28. Eliminate prayer or any phase of religious expression in the schools on the ground that it violates the principle of "separation of church and state."
29. Discredit the American Constitution by calling it inadequate, old-fashioned, out of step with modern needs, a hindrance to cooperation between nations on a worldwide basis.
30. Discredit the American Founding Fathers. Present them as selfish aristocrats who had no concern for the "common man."
31. Belittle all forms of American culture and discourage the teaching of American history on the ground that it was only a minor part of the "big picture." Give more emphasis to Russian history since the Communists took over.
32. Support any socialist movement to give centralized control over any part of the culture--education, social agencies, welfare programs, mental health clinics, etc.
33. Eliminate all laws or procedures which interfere with the operation of the Communist apparatus.
34. Eliminate the House Committee on Un-American Activities.
35. Discredit and eventually dismantle the FBI.
36. Infiltrate and gain control of more unions.
37. Infiltrate and gain control of big business.
38. Transfer some of the powers of arrest from the police to social agencies. Treat all behavioral problems as psychiatric disorders which no one but psychiatrists can understand.
39. Dominate the psychiatric profession and use mental health laws as a means of gaining coercive control over those who oppose Communist goals.
40. Discredit the family as an institution. Encourage promiscuity and easy divorce.
41. Emphasize the need to raise children away from the negative influence of parents. Attribute prejudices, mental blocks and retarding of children to suppressive influence of parents.
42. Create the impression that violence and insurrection are legitimate aspects of the American tradition; that students and special-interest groups should rise up and use united force to solve economic, political or social problems.
43. Overthrow all colonial governments before native populations are ready for self-government.
44. Internationalize the Panama Canal.
45. Repeal the Connally reservation so the United States cannot prevent the World Court from seizing jurisdiction over nations and individuals alike.