Jared Loughner arraignment: Live tweeting the proceedings

Loughner's parents 'devastated,' 'hurting'
PHOENIX, Ariz. — The parents of Jared Loughner, the 22-year-old suspect in the fatal shooting of six people and attempted Assassination of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, are "devastated" and "hurting real bad," a neighbor told The Wall Street Journal. The paper reported that the neighbor, Wayne Smith, broke the news to Randy and Amy Loughner that their son was a suspect in the shootings Saturday. "She almost passed out right there," Smith told the Journal. "He sat in the road with...

Insanity defense difficult for shooting suspect
(01-10) 16:03 PST WASHINGTON, CA (AP) -- In an earlier time, the emerging portrait of a deeply troubled young man might have given Jared Loughner's lawyers the basis of an insanity defense. But John Hinckley's successful insanity claim after shooting President Ronald Reagan led Congress to raise the bar, making the task harder. The Justice Department has not said whether it will seek the death penalty against Loughner, the suspect in the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the Deaths of a ...

Jared Loughner appears to be clinically scitzophrenic, not a right-wing extremist. Leading conservatives argue this means that
A virtual who's who of Conservatives - from George Will and Marc Thiessen to virtually every well-known conservative media figure and blogger has now reacted with outrage to the idea that violent Rhetoric by Conservatives had anything to do with the shooting of Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords. Many, in fact, reverse the accusation and claim that they are the Victims of a new "McCarthyism" or a "blood Libel" when critics suggest that violent Rhetoric by Conservatives in any way contributed to ...

Palin caught in crosshairs map controversy after Tucson shootings
In her more than two years on the national stage, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin has proven to be a master of attention-grabbing quotes and vivid images. As a result, she finds herself at the center of a political and media Controversy - unfairly in the estimation of her allies - after Saturday's shootings in Tucson. This Story Arizona shooting suspect Loughner makes first appearance in Federal Court The faces of Jared Loughner Bullet's path may determine Giffords's injuries A look at the...

Doctor: Gabrielle Giffords 'holding her own' after shooting
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords's doctor said the congresswoman was "holding her own" at a Hospital in Tucson early Monday morning, with CT scans showing that the swelling in her brain is not getting any worse. This Story Christina-Taylor Green, 9-year-old killed in Tucson, remembered, mourned Obama calls for national moment of silence for Tucson Victims Doctor: Gabrielle Giffords 'holding her own' after shooting Giffords able to communicate, respond Gabrielle Giffords, congresswoman from A...

A shaved, shackled Jared Lee Loughner is ordered held; Jan. 14 hearing set
Jared Lee Loughner, the man accused of attempting to assassinate Gabrielle Giffords, makes his first appearance in Federal Court in Phoenix. A judge orders him held without bond....

Gabrielle Giffords recovery continues in aftermath of Tucson shooting
Rep. Gabrielle Giffords continued her recovery in a Tucson Hospital after Saturday's shooting: The 40-year-old lawmaker was shot through the head Saturday, allegedly targeted by a deranged constituent. Doctors said Sunday that the passage of the bullet through only one side of her brain and her initial responsiveness give hope she could survive and even possibly recover. "We are more and more encouraged," physician Michael Lemole, who is treating Giffords, said on ABC's "Good ...

Tucson shootings don't quell debate over political rhetoric
Across the ideological spectrum, officials and Activists agreed after Saturday's Tucson killings that it was time to soften the harsh edges of America's raucous national dialogue. This Story Arizona shooting suspect Loughner makes first appearance in Federal Court The faces of Jared Loughner Bullet's path may determine Giffords's injuries A look at the left hemisphere For parents, shots in Tucson have a nightmarish echo Federal employees killed in Giffords shooting reflect alarming trend of v...

Loughner appears in court; Obama plans trip to Arizona on Wednesday
PHOENIX - Jared Lee Loughner, appearing in court for the first time since he allegedly killed six people and wounded 14, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, in a Shooting Spree in Tucson on Saturday, calmly answered questions from a judge Monday and heard the charges against him before being led off in custody without bail. This Story Arizona shooting suspect Loughner makes first appearance in Federal Court The faces of Jared Loughner Bullet's path may determine Giffords's injuries A look at t...

ADL's Jared Loughner Report: Mental Illness, Not Ideology Likely Led To Tragedy
Mental Illness, rather than Tea Baggery's likely to blame for Loughner's rampage, says the ADL Since Saturday's massacre in Tucson, both the left and the right have parsed alleged killer Jared Lee Loughner's YouTube videos, the statements of his supposed school chums, his favorite books (everything from To Kill a Mockingbird to Mein Kampf), and any other scraps of info out there on the guy. The left has surmised he's your classic anti-government, Wingnut Teabagger. The right's labeled him an a...

Loughner Appears in Federal Court
PHOENIX - Jared Loughner appeared before a Federal magistrate judge at the Federal Courthouse in Phoenix Monday afternoon. Loughner made an initial appearance before Judge Lawrence Anderson. This is a procedural hearing and it should be brief. Just after 2 p.m., Jared Loughner entered the courtroom handcuffed and wearing an inmate uniform. His head is shaved and he has a cut on his right temple. As he walked in, he looked straight at the crowd. His lawyer, Judy Clarke, who defended Oklahoma City...

The left's political dirt ball
On Feb. 15, 1933, Giuseppe Zangara, delusional and a loner, fired his .32-caliber pistol at FDR in the Bayfront Park area of Miami. Five feet tall, Zangara could not aim over the crowd. So, he stood on a folding chair and was piled on after the first of five shots. He wounded four people, including Mayor Anton Cermak of Chicago. In two weeks, Zangara, who pleaded guilty, had been sentenced to 80 years. When Cermak died on March 6, Zangara was retried for Murder and sentenced to the electric ...

Giffords' shooting suspect Jared Loughner now in court
Jared Lee Loughner, the 22-yearold suspect accused of wounding Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killing six others, is in Federal Court in Phoenix. He is facing charges of attempting to assassinate a congresswoman and of killing a Federal Judge and one of Giffords' aides. He is also charged with two counts of attempting to kill a federal employee. The Associated Press writes that Loughner entered the courtroom handcuffed and wearing an inmate uniform, looking straight at the crowd. His head is shave...

PostPartisan: In Arizona, packing heat didn't work
The horror in Arizona exposes the lunacy of the notion, popular among Republicans, that a heavily armed populace can stop a deranged gunman. After the horror at Virginia Tech, in 2007, gun advocates -- overwhelmingly Republicans -- advanced the idea that the massacre might have been cut short if Students had been allowed to carry weapons. School policy at Tech forbids students, visitors and most others to have weapons on campus. The Tech massacre even gave rise to an Advocacy Group, Students ...

The Lefts Script of Hate
“Just the facts, ma’am,” Dragnet’s Joe Friday famously informed witnesses he interviewed. Oft-interviewed Pima County Sherriff Clarence Dupnik might adopt the catchphrase: “Save the facts, ma’am. Just the narrative.” The narrative of right-wing Rhetoric fueling accused mass-murderer Jared Lee Loughner proved so seductive to partisans that they didn’t wait for the compilation of facts, or burial of the dead, to advance their politically opportunisti...

Megyn Kelly to Democrat Sheriff Clarence Dupnik: Why are you politicizing this tragedy?
Why is Democrat Sheriff Clarence Dupnik politicizing the Assassination attempt on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords? It’s almost as if he’s channeling Doug Henning, minus the skin tight body suits and 70s curls, creating a loud and noisy distraction over to the side so no one pays attention to what’s happening on the other side of the stage, where the really interesting story is happening. You know, like the reality that Sheriff Dupnik knew for at least the past year that Jared ...

Judges: Kuwaiti-born man due damages in arrest
HONOLULU (AP) — A Federal Court has ruled in favor of a Kuwaiti-born Honolulu man who claims he was arrested based on unjustified suspicions of Terrorism. Lawyers in the case say the city of Honolulu will likely owe Mansour Arekat and his attorney hundreds of thousands of dollars. Arekat was arrested in 2003 without a warrant under a state Mental Health law allowing people to be taken into Custody if they’re deemed to be imminently dangerous, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser reported Mon...

Jared Loughner appears in court on murder charges
It remains unclear whether Loughner's alleged actions were politically motivated, stemmed from Mental Illness or both. But the nice, skinny kid some classmates remember from Tucson's Mountain View High School appears to have transformed into an oddball with psychological problems. Rants in Loughner's name on MySpace and YouTube suggest his alleged attack on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, a Democrat, was a politically motivated rebellion, but former friends, co-workers and Mental Health specialists sug...

Jared Lee Loughner: The Face of Brutality
Yes, a picture is worth a thousand words. The official Mug Shot of Jared Lee Loughner. h/T Talking Points Memo 1 response(s) to this topic so far. Have an opinion? Join the District TMV discussion on this topic now. ...

The heroesof Arizona
It's an ancient warfare tactic, and one Terrorists of every stripe employ to wreak violence on the innocent: The element of surprise. Once the attacker ambushes presumably unarmed civilians, in a peaceful setting, the Victims are usually paralyzed through shock and cannot defend themselves. It takes remarkable presence of mind to survive – much less mount a unified offensive against the attacker and save other innocents. In the Arizona attack Saturday that killed six and injured 14, the...

Well, Well, Well. Jared Loughner Is A Registered Independent.
As pundits and politicians on both sides of the political spectrum call for everyone to “just get along!” while taking aim at one another, news has come out that Jared Loughner , the 22-year-old who opened fire on a crowd outside a Tucson, Arizona Safeway while Rep. Gabrielle Giffords met with her constituents, is a registered Independent who did not vote in the 2010 election. The Washington Post reports that, according to the Pima County Registrar of Voters, Loughner has been regis...

Jared Loughner, the Face of Deranged, Murderous Evil A Registered Independent Who Never Voted in 2010
Today, deranged gunman Jared Loughner appeared in federal court for the first time since the Arizona Sageway massacre where 6 people were murdered and numerous others injured including US Rep Gabby Giffords. As if this loner screw ball was not deranged enough, he appeared in court today with a shaved head as was reported that he smirked during the proceedings . “Yes, I am Jared Lee Loughner,” said Loughner, with a freshly shaved head, when the Judge Lawrence Anderson asked

On Jared Loughner and a Possible Insanity Defense
Yahoo! Buzz It’s too soon to know, of course, whether Jared Loughner will invoke an insanity defense during his trial. But press accounts have noted behavior that seems strange, if not downright insane. Case in point: His rather incoherent rantings about the evils of America’s currency and grammatical structure. Still, it won’t be easy for him to establish that he is legally insane. Here’s an article in the Examiner.com that analyzes a possible Loughner insanity defense; ...

Alleged Giffords Shooter Jared Lee Loughner Appears In Phoenix Federal Court
Jared Lee Loughner, the alleged gunman behind the mass shooting on Saturday that killed six people (including a Federal Judge) and gravely injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), appeared in Federal Court on Monday with his head shaved and wearing an tan inmate's outfit. Loughner, who the Associated Press said had a cut on his head, was held without bail as a judge called him "danger to society." Loughner says little in the courtroom and just answered procedural questions, David Nakamura of th...

Jared Lee Loughner, Arizona shooting suspect, appears in court
Jared Lee Loughner, accused of Murder and Attempted Murder of federal employees including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, appeared on Monday in Federal Court in Phoenix and will continue to be held for future hearings. Loughner, 22, appeared before Magistrate Judge Lawrence Anderson on a five-count complaint that alleged he attempted to assassinate Giffords, who remains hospitalized in critical condition after Saturday's Shooting Spree. Two of the counts allege that Lougner killed a Federal Judge...