Justice for JFK Act of 2013

 While we have been lobbying the House Oversight Committee - Rep. James Comer (R. Ky) Chairman, to hold oversight hearings on the JFK Act of 1992, that is five years behind schedule, Arizona Republican Rep. David Schweikert has introduced a new bill - a revised JFK Act without many of the withholding exemptions. 

Larry Schnapf wants everyone to write to the Oversight Committe, as I already have   

JFKcountercoup: Letter to House Oversight Committee Re: Hearings on JFK Act

calling on them to hold oversight hearings during Sunshine Week (March 12-18). 

If you do write, be sure to also fax it and post it on their web site where they have a contact link, and make it attention to Rep. James Comer (R. Ky), the chairman, the only person who can schedule a public hearing. If a dozen people ask to be notified when there is a hearing scheduled, we will have their attention, if a hundred people ask to be notified when there is a public hearing, they will have to do something. 

Some say Schweikert is a member of the smaller govenment Freedom Caucus, and may even be a Trumpster and Election denier, but whatever his motives, he is making waves. 

As Assassinations Archives and Research Center attorney Dan Alcorn has pointed out: 

        A couple of problems with this- it limits assassination related
documents to those "related to the assassination of President Kennedy". 
Does this include WIROGUE and QJWIN?  There are hundreds of pages of
WIROGUE materials being withheld in full under the JFK Act of 1992. 
Would David Harold Byrd and Werner von Alvensleben be deemed related? 
CIA has made it clear they are going to fight on "not believed relevant"
grounds.  The Records Review Board adopted a broad definition of
relevance, but the statute remained the same "related to".

      Second, the government is asserting Presidential powers in the
Mary Ferrell v. Biden lawsuit.  The government asserts that these
discretionary Presidential powers override statutes that get in the way.

      Third, there is no private right of action in the Bill, meaning no
way to enforce.

H.R.637 - JFK Act of 2023118th Congress (2023-2024) | Get aler

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Sponsor:	Rep. Schweikert, David [R-AZ-1] (Introduced 01/30/2023)
Committees:	House - Oversight and Accountability; Judiciary; Ways and Means; Foreign Affairs; Armed Services; Intelligence (Permanent Select)
Latest Action:	House - 01/30/2023 Referred to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Foreign Affairs, Armed Services, and Intelligence (Permanent Select), for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.  (All Actions)
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Introduced in House (01/30/2023)

118th CONGRESS 1st Session

H. R. 637

To direct the heads of certain departments and agencies of the Federal Government to publicly disclose all assassination records and information relevant to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and for other purposes.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

January 30, 2023

Mr. Schweikert introduced the following bill; which was referred to the Committee on Oversight and Accountability, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Ways and Means, Foreign Affairs, Armed Services, and Intelligence (Permanent Select), for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned

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A BILL

To direct the heads of certain departments and agencies of the Federal Government to publicly disclose all assassination records and information relevant to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. SHORT TITLE.

This Act may be cited as the “Justice for Kennedy Act of 2023” or the “JFK Act of 2023”.

SEC. 2. PUBLIC DISCLOSURE OF ASSASSINATION RECORDS AND INFORMATION RELATED TO ASSASSINATION OF PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY.

(a) Public Disclosure Of Assassination Records.—

(1) DISCLOSURE.—Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, each covered Federal official shall publicly disclose in unclassified and unredacted form any assassination record and information relevant to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in the control or possession of such covered Federal official.

(2) RELATION TO OTHER LAW.—Each covered Federal official shall carry out paragraph (1) notwithstanding the following:

(A) The Presidential Memorandum of December 15, 2022, titled “Memorandum on Certifications Regarding Disclosure of Information in Certain Records Related to the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy”.

(B) Section 5(g)(2)(D) of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 U.S.C. 2107 note).

(C) Section 6 of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 U.S.C. 2107 note).

(D) Section 6103(l)(17) of title 26, United States Code.

(E) Any other provision of law that conflicts with the requirements under paragraph (1).

(b) Assassination Records Under Seal Of Court.—

(1) PETITIONS FOR PUBLIC DISCLOSURE.—

(A) IN GENERAL.—Not later than 30 days after the date of the enactment of this Act, the Attorney General shall petition any court in the United States or in a foreign country to publicly disclose in unclassified and unredacted form any assassination record and information relevant to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy that is held under seal of the court or held under the injunction of secrecy of a grand jury.

(B) PARTICULARIZED NEED REQUIREMENT.—A request for disclosure of assassination records pursuant to a petition under subparagraph (A) shall be deemed to constitute a showing of particularized need under Rule 6 of the Federal Rules of Criminal Procedure.

(2) RELATION TO OTHER LAW.—The Attorney General shall carry out paragraph (1) notwithstanding—

(A) the provisions of law described in subparagraphs (A) through (C) of paragraph (2) of subsection (a); and

(B) any other provision of law that conflicts with the requirement under paragraph (1).

(c) Definitions.—In this section:

(1) The term “assassination record” has the meaning given such term in section 3 of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992 (44 U.S.C. 2107 note).

(2) The term “covered Federal official” means the following:

(A) The Archivist of the United States.

(B) The Commissioner of Internal Revenue.

(C) The Director of the Central Intelligence Agency.

(D) The Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation.

(E) The Secretary of Defense.

(F) The Secretary of State..gov | Library of Cong