Arizona's chief fed judge among shooting victims

Arizonas chief fed judge among shooting victims
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — U.S. District Judge John M. Roll, the chief Federal Judge for Arizona, died Saturday, a Victim of a Mass Shooting. Roll was 63. Roll was shot while attending an event for constituents held by U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, who was badly wounded in the shooting. Roll was appointed to the federal bench in 1991 by President George H.W. Bush. Roll previously served as a state trial judge and as a judge on the midlevel Arizona Court of appeals. He previously worked as a coun...

Thumbnail sketches of victims in Tucson shooting
Named Arizona’s chief Federal Judge in 2006, U.S. District Judge John M. Roll won acclaim for a career as a respected jurist and leader who had pushed to beef up the court’s strained bench to handle a growing number of border crime-related cases. Roll was appointed to the federal bench in 1991 by President George H.W. Bush. He previously served as a state trial judge and as a judge on the midlevel Arizona Court of appeals, and as a county and state prosecutor. Bishop Gerald Kicanas o...

Arizona's chief fed judge among shooting victims
(01-08) 21:38 PST Tucson, Ariz. (AP) -- Named Arizona's chief Federal Judge in 2006, U.S. District Judge John M. Roll won wide acclaim for a career as a respected jurist and leader who had pushed to beef up the court's strained bench to handle a growing number of border crime-related cases. His death Saturday, at the hands of gunman apparently intent on assassinating Arizona U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, stunned those who mourned the loss of a devoted, talented and gentle man. "I have never me...

John Roll, Chief Judge of District Court in Arizona, and the Ninth Circuit's Release
Photo issued by the 9th Circuit of deceased jurist John Roll Normally, I do not post Press Releases in their entirety on this blog, but I think an exception is warranted in the case of this statement from the United States' Ninth Circuit Court regarding Arizona's Chief District Judge John Roll, who was killed in the massacre that also severely wounded Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Earlier this year, I interviewed Judge Roll for my October cover story on the U.S. Government's Operation Str...

AZ Shooting Victims: Christina Green, Judge John Roll and More
Among the six dead at Saturday's shooting in Arizona were 9-year-old Christina Green, a ballerina who was interested in politics, a polarizing District Judge, and a 76-year-old church volunteer....

Dem planning bill that would outlaw threatening lawmakers
Rep. Robert Brady (D-Pa.) reportedly plans to introduce Legislation that would make it a federal crime to use language or symbols that could be perceived as threatening or inciting violence against a federal official or member of Congress. Brady told CNN that he wants federal lawmakers and officials to have the same protections against threat currently provided to the president. His call comes one day after Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) was shot, along with 19 other people, at a public eve...

Pelosi Leads Moment of Silence for Shooting Victims
Nancy Pelosi led a moment of silence Saturday, for the Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords who was shot in the head earlier that day. At a planned event in San Francisco, Pelosi said Giffords is a "brilliant and patriotic American," according to the Associated Press. Giffords was hospitalized after being shot at a public event in Tucson, Arizona. The congresswoman is in critical condition after undergoing surgery Sunday morning. Doctors are optimistic for her survival, stating th...

Judge John Roll among Arizona victims
TUCSON, Jan. 9 (UPI) -- The chief U.S. judge in Arizona, John Roll, was one of the six people killed in a weekend Shooting Spree that injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, Ariz. Roll, 64, died of gunshot wounds Saturday outside a Safeway Supermarket when a 22-year-old man opened fire on the congresswoman and killed six people and injured 13, The New York Times reported. Roll, who was provided protection by the U.S. Marshals Service after death threats during a 2009 case involving Mexicans s...

Moment Of Silence For Arizona Shooting Victims Announced By President Obama
On Sunday, President Obama announced a national moment of silence for the Victims of the Mass Shooting in Arizona on Saturday. The full White House Press Release is below. * * * * President Obama Calls for Moment of Silence for Victims of Shooting in Tucson, Arizona "Tomorrow at 11:00 a.m. eastern standard time, I call on Americans to observe a moment of silence to honor the innocent Victims of the senseless tragedy in Tucson, Arizona, including those still fighting for their lives. It will ...

Federal judge, 9-year-old girl among Ariz. shooting victims
A gunman opened fire during a "Congress on Your Corner" event at a Tucson Safeway Saturday, killing six people and injuring 15, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords,D- Ariz. Those killed include: •Christina Green, 9 Green, who was born on Sept. 11, 2001, was recently elected to her school's Student council and was brought to the event by a neighbor who thought she might be interested. She is the grandaughter of Dallas Green, the former manager of the Philadelphia Phillies major league basebal...

Westboro Baptist Church To Picket Funerals Of Arizona Shooting Victims
Source: Huffington Post Westboro Baptist Church, the Topeka church known for its inflammatory anti-gay Protests, plans to picket the funerals of the six people gunned down in Arizona on Saturday. In a flier posted on its web site, the Controversial church writes, "THANK GOD FOR THE SHOOTER -- 6 DEAD!" The flier claims that the shooting of both a House member and a Federal Judge is god's punishment for judicial and Congressional action against the WBC. "God sent the shooter to shoot you! And He'...

Arizona Shooting Victims Include 9-Year-Old Born On 9/11
Victim Christina-Taylor Green Six people were killed and 14 others were injured yesterday after a gunman opened fire on a crowd of people at a political meet-and-greet outside an Arizona Supermarket. Among those killed were several septuagenarians, Arizona's top Federal Judge, a political aide to Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, and a 9-year-old girl who was born on September 11, 2001. The 9-year-old, Christina-Taylor Green, was the granddaughter of former Mets and Yankees manager Dallas Green. She wa...

Note in Loughner safe: 'I planned ahead'
Federal investigators found a letter in the safe of accused gunman Jared Lee Loughner thanking him for attending a “Congress on Your Corner” event hosted by Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in 2007, alongside an envelope with handwritten notes that read “I planned ahead,” “my Assassination” and “Giffords,” according to a federal Complaint filed Sunday. The envelope also included what appeared to be Loughner’s signature, said the complaint, which doe...

Pelosi Leads Moment of Silence for Shooting Victims
Nancy Pelosi led a moment of silence Saturday, for the Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords who was shot in the head earlier that day. At a planned event in San Francisco, Pelosi said Giffords is a "brilliant and patriotic American," according to the Associated Press. Giffords was hospitalized after being shot at a public event in Tucson, Arizona. The congresswoman is in critical condition after undergoing surgery Sunday morning. Doctors are optimistic for her survival, stating th...

Shooting Fallout: Political Rhetoric Takes The Heat
The shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ) has raised concerns about the effect of inflammatory language that has become a steady undercurrent in the nation's political culture. Saturday's Shooting Spree, which killed U.S. District Judge John M. Roll and five others, followed years of hot political debate in Arizona. Both Roll and Giffords had been the subject of threats in recent years. Arizona has become one of the most reliably conservative states, particularly in the de

9-year-old shooting victim was aspiring politician
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — At age 9, Christina Taylor Green was already an aspiring politician with hopes of being the first woman to play major league Baseball. She had just been elected to the Student council at Tucson’s Mesa Verde Elementary School and was interested in politics from a young age. Born on Sept. 11, 2001, the third-grader was among six people killed Saturday outside a Supermarket where a neighbor had taken her to meet Arizona congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. The brown-ey...

Isn't What Happened in Arizona Media-Fed Bigoted White Christian Male Terrorism?
Where does one start in the wake of the political Killing Spree that occurred in Arizona on Saturday? With John Wilkes Booth putting a bullet into the head of Abraham Lincoln? With the assassinations of John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy? With the shooting of Martin Luther King? The right-wing culture of hate and implicit coded call to kill the enemy, as if on a mission from God, is a subset of our larger national culture of violence. From our policy of maintaining superpower status through wars...

A clear nut-burger does it again! The Arizona Shooting
By Jon A. Underwood, CBPO Ret. Just what law abiding, gun owner’s need, an alleged Iraq or Afghan Vet, (yet to be verified) opens fire at an outreach hosted by an US representative for Arizona, located at a shopping center. The Representative of Congressional District 8, Gabrielle (gabby) Gifford was shot. A staunch supporter of a secure border, anti-smuggling, and the Second Amendment. Against SB1070, but not a supporter of Amnesty, nor of the filing of the Federal Lawsuit initiated by the ...

Surgeons say Giffords showing positive signs
TUCSON, Ariz. — Doctors treating wounded Rep. Gabrielle Giffords provided an optimistic update Sunday about her chances for survival, saying they are "very, very encouraged" by her ability to respond to simple commands along with their success in controlling her bleeding. The FBI said Law Enforcement could bring charges against the gunman as early as Sunday, and House Speaker John Boehner said normal House business this week has been postponed in the aftermath of the shooting. Surgeons s...

Sick Westboro Baptist Church Taking Protest to Arizona
This is sick. Why isn’t the media blaming Jared Loughner’s criminal acts on Fred Phelps and his violent, hateful Rhetoric? Phelps praises Loughner’s violent acts in this video, where he announces he will be taking his sick Protest to the funerals of the Victims of the Arizona Shooting Spree. He also refers to Loughner as an Afghanistan War Veteran, even though initial reports of Loughner being a Veteran turned out to be false. HillBuzz has more on this sick, twisted man, incl...

Law Blog Obituary: Arizona Federal Judge, John Roll, 63
Yahoo! Buzz The tragic shooting in Tucson Saturday morning took the life of six people, among them John McCarthy Roll, the chief judge of the District of Arizona. Judge Roll was 63. Click here for my and Nathan Koppel’s story on Roll in the WSJ; here for the NYT’s article; here for the LAT’s; here for the Arizona Republic’s. Roll was known within the Tucson legal community as a conservative and even-handed jurist who, in recent years had worked hard to increase funding fo...

Gabrielle Giffords: Tragic Prophet
Emergency personnel attend to a Shooting Victim outside a shopping center in Tucson, Ariz. on Saturday, Jan. 8, 2011 where U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz., and others were shot as the congresswoman was meeting with constituents. Editor’s note: This is a special E.J. Dionne column written after the deadly shooting Saturday in Arizona. To read a 2009 column by the same author about the threat of such violence in our politics, click here. There is one commentator whose words should enl...

U.S. Cites Evidence of Assassination Plot
Source: NY Times TUCSON-- Prosecutors accused Jared Lee Loughner, a troubled 22-year-old College Dropout, of five serious federal charges on Sunday, including the attempted Assassination of a member of Congress, for his role in a shootout that left 20 people wounded, six of them fatally, on Saturday morning. Court documents filed in the U.S. District Court in Phoenix indicated that evidence seized from Mr. Loughner's home showed that he had planned to kill Representative Gabrielle Giffords, who...

Tucson 911 tapes reveal panic, confusion
One of the first people Saturday to call 911 from the Tucson Safeway told emergency dispatchers that Rep. Gabrielle Giffords had been shot and at least one person had died. The man, who identified himself as Manuel Hernandez, was inside the Safeway when a man opened fire at the Arizona congresswoman and a group of constituents who had gathered to meet her. Continue Reading Text Size - + reset Politico 44 “Mrs. Giffords! There was a shooting at Safeway at Ina and Oracle where Gabrielle...

Analysis: Gitmo detainee transferred to Algeria
The Department of Defense announced the transfer of a Guantanamo detainee to Algeria on Thursday. The detainee, Saiid Farhi (also known as Farhi Saeed Bin Mohammed in US government documents), was recruited by al Qaeda in London to train and fight in Afghanistan. Despite traveling to Afghanistan under the direction of al Qaeda facilitators, staying in al Qaeda guesthouses, almost certainly training in al Qaeda camps, and offering an absurd cover story, a DC District Judge ordered Farhi freed....