John Roll, Chief Judge of District Court in Arizona, and the Ninth Circuit's Release

The Tragedy of the Arizona Shooting
The Tragedy of the Arizona Shooting Monday, 01/10/2011 - 1:47 pm by Mike Konczal | Post a Comment There are many ways to look at it, but all say disturbing things about the country. This weekend’s tragic shooting at a Safeway district meeting in which United States Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords was seriously hurt and a dozen more injured and a District Court judge John Roll, a nine-year-old girl born on September 11th, and a congressional aide were killed has left us all stunned. Her...

Judge in Loughner hearing probably knew judge who was killed
Lawrence O. Anderson, the magistrate judge who will preside over Jared Loughner's initial court appearance Monday, is a Phoenix native who was appointed to his role in 1998 after eight years as a Superior Court judge in Maricopa County. He was a star athlete in college at the University of San Francisco who suffered a severe injury that left him without the use of his legs, said Alan P. Bayham Jr., president of the Arizona Bar Association. He administers his courtroom from a Wheelchair. Anderson...

Clerk: Judge John Roll 'greatly dedicated to his family,' 'family of his staff"
Arizona shooting Six people were killed and 14 others wounded, including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords in Arizona. A photo of U.S. District Judge John Roll sits at a makeshift memorial....

Judge: 'Survivor' winner broke supervised release
FILE - In this Dec. 15, 2010 file photo, Reality TV star Richard Hatch arrives at Federal Court in Providence, R.I. Hatch is returning to Federal Court in Providence Monday, Jan. 10, 2011, to face allegations that he violated terms of his Probation. A judge says Reality TV star Richard Hatch has violated the terms of his supervised release, but he didn't immediately send the "Survivor" star back to jail and put off sentencing. U.S. District Judge William Smith said it was clear that Hatch had f...

Knights of Columbus Mourns Death of Judge John Roll in Arizona Shooting
The Knights of Columbus, a prominent Catholic group know for its pro-life work, is today mourning the death of one of the Victims of the Arizona shooting Saturday. In addition to the death of Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, Judge John Roll, who was nominated by former President George Bush, was killed along with four other people. Roll, who was the chief judge for the District of Arizona, was a Fourth Degree member of the Knights of Columbus, and was a charter member of a Knights council in ...

Slain Federal Judge Was Champion for Greater Court Resources
U.S. District Judge John M. Roll, who was killed in the Arizona shooting Saturday, was a bystander in the attack aimed at Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, according to news reports. It was not a coincidence, however, that he had come to the Grocery Store where Giffords was holding a meet-and-greet that morning; he came to talk with Giffords about greater resources for his court, The National Law Journal reports. "Such a discussion would have been typical for Roll," The NLJ explains. "He ...

Arizona's 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 county a...

Doctor: No change in Giffords' condition
WASHINGTON, Jan. 10 (UPI) -- The condition of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, shot in an attack at a Tucson political event, was unchanged Monday, and a doctor said that was positive news. "We're not out of the woods yet," said Dr. G. Michael Lemole, section chief of Neurosurgery at University Medical Center in Tucson. "At this phase in the game, no change is good and we have no change," Lemole said at a briefing on the condition of Giffords and others wounded in the Saturday shooting rampage outside o...

Arizona Shooting Suspect Set For Court Appearance
The suspect in a weekend shooting rampage in Tucson, Ariz., that left six dead and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords seriously wounded will make his first court appearance Monday afternoon, where he faces charges of attempted Assassination. Jared Loughner, who allegedly fired a Glock pistol point-blank at the Democratic congresswoman's head before spraying a crowded Supermarket Parking Lot with bullets, was expected to appear in a Phoenix court at 2 p.m. MST (4 p.m. EST). U.S. District Judge John Roll, an...

Court rejects case of US baby sent to Mexico
WASHINGTON (AP) — The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a Texas woman who wants to sue the Federal Government for sending her U.S. citizen baby to Mexico with the child’s Illegal Immigrant father. Monica Castro’s daughter was a day from her first birthday when federal agents deported the father to Mexico and sent her with him. Three years would pass before Castro and the girl, both U.S. citizens who were born in Texas, were reunited. Castro sued the Federal Government o...

Court Rejects Case of US Baby Sent to Mexico
Monday, January 10, 2011 By Staff, Associated Press Washington (AP) - The Supreme Court has rejected an appeal from a Texas woman who wants to sue the Federal Government for sending her U.S. citizen baby to Mexico with the child's Illegal Immigrant father. Monica Castro's daughter was a day from her first birthday when federal agents deported the father to Mexico and sent her with him. Three years would pass before Castro and the girl, both U.S. citizens who were born in Texas, were reunite...

Brown in duel over Civil War-era sword
PROVIDENCE -- A Civil War-era valuable ceremonial sword missing from a Brown University museum for more than 30 years has been located in Virginia, and the university has gone to Federal Court to get it back. The Ivy League school has filed suit in Virginia asserting that the Tiffany silver Presentation Sword and ornamental scabbard, originally given to Col. Rush C. Hawkins, founder and commander of a noteworthy New York-based Civil War regiment, were stolen from a memorial collecti...

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...

Supreme Court dismisses Oneida foreclosure case, returns issue to lower court
WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. Supreme Court has dismissed a case involving two New York counties that are trying to foreclose on land owned by the Oneida Indian Nation to settle a Property Tax dispute. The court agreed in October to hear the case. It centers on the issue of whether tribal immunity from Lawsuits prevents Madison and Oneida counties from foreclosing on tribal land. The justices said in an unsigned opinion Monday that the Oneidas have agreed since to waive their immunity. The...

Giffords shooting leads nation to introspection and political finger wagging
In the wake of the shooting in Arizona this weekend that critically injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and that killed and injured more than 20 people, many pundits and politicians are pointing fingers. Others are hoping the incident will serve to ratchet down rancor. Yet emerging details make it clear the shooter wasn’t primarily motivated by politics, right or left. Jared Lee Loughner seems mainly to have been struggling with Mental Illness and was angry at being thrown out of Pima Communi...

Giffords Predecessor: There Isn't Anything in Arizona That's Uniquely Different
ABC News’ Rick Klein reports: The shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords over the weekend has prompted a reexamination of the nation’s Gun Laws, with a particular focus on Arizona, with its lax laws about Gun Ownership in addition to its tinderbox politics on Immigration and other hot-button issues. But on ABC’s “Top Line” today, former Rep. Jim Kolbe - who represented Giffords’ district in Congress for 22 years before retiring in 2006 - said it’s a mist

Arizona's Eighth Congressional District Epitomized Over-The-Top Demonization Of Liberals
While it is critical to understand that Jared Loughner's Terrorist Attack on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and dozens of her constituents over the weekend was not directly caused by the words of her political opponents, the tragedy in Arizona presents an opportunity to examine the nature of our political discourse. Giffords' district, the Arizona Eighth, is a prime example of overheated Rhetoric. Her 2010 campaign was plagued by Vandalism and death threats from anonymous citizens, as well as hyperbol...

Blame debate rages over Tucson shooting
Four US Marshals guard the house of US District Judge Cindy Jorgenson, checking the bags, identification and cars of those who draw up outside her house, a 25-minute drive from Tucson. She spent Sunday trying to work out how to deal with the Court Cases that her friend and colleague Judge John Roll was no longer going to be able to hear. Judge Roll was killed on Saturday, one of six fatalities of the mayhem that erupted in Tucson on what should have been a normal weekend. Cindy Jorgenson is calm...

Unabombers Lawyer to Represent Loughner
The Arizona Republic reports: When Jared Loughner faces a judge in Federal Court in Phoenix this afternoon, he will be accompanied by the same high-powered defense attorney who represented the “Unabomber,” the Atlanta Olympics bomber and Susan Smith, the South Carolina woman who drowned her two Children by driving her car into a lake. The Federal Public Defender’s Office in Phoenix has recommended that San Diego attorney Judy Clarke take Loughner’s case. She will appear...

All eyes remain on Tucson
The weekend attack on Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords appears likely to consume the nation’s business Monday, as prosecutors begin to make their case against Giffords’s would-be assassin and a debate continues to unfold over the political implications of the shooting. President Barack Obama plans to lead the nation in a moment of silence at 11 a.m. in honor of the Victims of the attack, which claimed the lives of six Arizonans, including U.S. District Judge John Roll and a 9-year-o...

'Get Down! Get Down!' As Gunfire Erupts in Arizona
Monday, January 10, 2011 By Pauline Arrillaga, Associated Press Tucson, Ariz. (AP) - She arrived right on time - smiling, as Gabrielle "Gabby" Giffords so often did, as she made her way through the small crowd that had assembled for her first "Congress on Your Corner" gathering of the new year. The meetings had become one of her hallmarks as a congresswoman, a way to get face-to-face with the people she served and hear them out, from those who cheered her close re-election to those who oppo...

Loughner Conviction Could Come Down To Why Judge Was At Giffords Event
Whether Jared Lee Loughner is convicted federally of killing Federal Judge John McCarthy Roll could come down simply to why he showed up to Saturday's event with Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ). In the Criminal Complaint filed against Jared Lee Loughner, the FBI is building the case that U.S District Court Judge John Roll attended Rep. Gabrielle Giffords "Congress on your Corner" not by chance or on a social visit, but for official government business. So why does Roll's reason for attending t...

With rare change in schedule, Supreme Court observes moment of silence
Washington (CNN) - The Supreme Court interrupted its public session Monday to mark the nationwide moment of silence in memory of the Victims of Saturday's Mass Shooting in Arizona that left a Federal Judge dead and a congresswoman seriously wounded. Chief Justice John Roberts and his eight colleagues paused on the bench after hearing their first oral argument. Roberts had opened the session by saying, "That senseless shooting on Saturday caused devastating injury to persons who all, in their own...

Florida Delegation Weighs In on Arizona Tragedy
While Gov. Rick Scott issued an order Monday for all flags at state buildings to fly at half-staff this week in remembrance of Victims of the Mass Shooting in Arizona, members of Florida’s congressional delegation weighed in on the tragic events. The shooting resulted in the death of six people, and others -- including U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Ariz. -- were wounded. Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz took to the airwaves, appearing on NBC’s Meet the Pre...

Paltrow, Bush cousins victims in Arizona shooting
FILE - In this Nov. 10, 2010 file photo, actress Gwyneth Paltrow attends the 44th Annual Country Music Awards in Nashville, Tenn. Gwyneth Paltrow is a cousin of the congresswoman who was wounded in Saturday's shooting that killed six people in Arizona. Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is the first cousin of director Bruce Paltrow, who is the late father of "Country Strong" actress Gwyneth Paltrow. "One Tree Hill" actress Sophia Bush also has a connection to the shooting. According to a Us Wee...