Judges Purpose in Seeing Giffords Could Be Legally Significant

Reports Downplayed of Loughner's Extremist Ties
Like this Story? Share it: Only On The Web: CBS News digital Journalist Arden Farhi spoke to Tucson-area residents as they reflect on Saturday's shooting and the impact it's had on their community. Chris Wragge speaks with Tucson shooting survivor Eric Fuller about the gunman, Jared Lee Loughner, and his thoughts on Rep. Gabrielle Gifford's recovery. New details about Tuscon gunman Jared Lee Loughner are being revealed as investigators search his home. Ben Tracy reports. Evidence is continuing t...

House Resolution Honors Heroes, Victims of Tucson Tragedy
ABC News' John R. Parkinson reports: A resolution to be read on the House floor Wednesday will honor the Victims of Saturday's Mass Shooting in Tucson, Arizona, and will also single out a number of individuals for heroic action on the scene of Saturday's bloody rampage. The text of the measure reads that "Representative Gabrielle Giffords was a target of this attack, and remains in critical condition at an Arizona Hospital" and "condemns in the strongest...

The Post 1/11/2011
While South Carolina prepares for an icy inauguration and the start of the 2011 legislative session, the focus of the nation continues to be absorbed by the Shooting Spree in Tucson, Arizona on Saturday that killed six people and left U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords seriously wounded. The Giffords’ story has dominated all facets of national news, the 2012 presidential discussion and has even reached into South Carolina politics given the asinine, anti-First Amendment comments made in response...

Tucson suspect's troubles didn't keep him from gun
This undated photo obtained from MySpace shows Jarad L. Loughner. At an event roughly three years ago, Rep. Gabrielle Giffords took a question from Jared Loughner, the man accused of trying to assassinate her and killing six other people. According to two of his High School friends the question was essentially this: "What is government if words have no meaning?" Loughner was angry about her response _ she read the question and didn't have much to say. On Sunday, Loughner was charged in the shoot...

Jeff Kass: Jared Loughner, Columbine and Diversion
Tucson shooting suspect Jared Loughner shared an unusual legal background, known as diversion, with the Columbine killers, as recounted in the New York Times. It may also be a window into the character trait of these mass shooters. "In September, Mr. Loughner filled out paperwork to have his record expunged on a 2007 drug paraphernalia charge," the Times reported. "Although he did not need to bother -- he had completed a diversion program so the charge was never actually on his record -- the i...

Rush Limbaugh Poetry: Democrats Helping Jared Loughner Avoid Jail
Let’s throw it to our top Arizona legal analyst, Rush Limbaugh, Esq., sitting in a hole of Excellent Broadcasting on the other side of the country: “This guy clearly understands he’s getting all the attention and he understands he’s got a political party doing everything it can, plus a local sheriff doing everything that they can to make sure he’s not convicted of Murder.” Poetic! Rush Limbaugh is using this opportunity of pundits’ examining their rhetor...

Arizona DHS: Loughner not influenced by extremist group
The Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center, a division of the Arizona Department of Homeland Security, acknowledges to my colleague Ken Vogel that it produced a memo reported on by Fox News over the weekend that suggested the suspect in the Tucson attacks may have been influenced by American Renaissance -- a theory it now says the evidence does not support: David Denlinger, commander of the Arizona Counter Terrorism Information Center ack...

Polls: Shooting spree not due to rhetoric
WASHINGTON, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Most Americans don't blame the shooting rampage in which Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was wounded on violent political language, two poll released Tuesday indicated. While 57 percent said the Mass Shooting in Tucson, Ariz., was not related to political Rhetoric, 32 percent said the two are linked, CBS News reported. The poll was conducted by the CBS News Polling Unit. GALLERY: The aftermath of the Rep. Giffords shooting There was a partisan divide with 69 percent of Repu...

GOP lawmaker to introduce new gun control legislation
Congressman Peter King (R-NY) announced Tuesday he will introduce new Legislation making it illegal to knowingly carry a firearm within 1,000 feet of a member of Congress and Federal Judges.  The new law will also apply to anyone within 1,000 feet of the President or Vice President. Congressman Peter King today also announced that he will introduce Legislation that will make it illegal to knowingly carry a gun within 1,000 feet of the President, Vice President, Members of Congress or judges...

Jon Stewart, Voice of Reason for the Left?
It truly is a sad day for politics and a terrible indictment of the Left and Liberal media in the United States, when the voice of reason seems to be a comedian, Jon Stewart.  Discussing the shooting rampage that took place in Arizona on Saturday, January 8, 2011, by Jared Lee Loughner, Stewart refrained from his usual funny take on current events to share his personal thoughts.  As BuddyTV says of Stewart's comments, "His reaction was, for the most part, serious, often ra...

Jared Lee Loughner - defense by mug shot?
Is he trying for an insanity defense with this Mug Shot? Judy Clarke has been appointed Jared Lee Loughner's federal public defender. She previously defended the Unabomber, Ted Kaczynski. (CNN): Jared Lee Loughner, the suspect accused of opening fire outside an Arizona Supermarket over the weekend, appeared calm and in control during his first court appearance Monday, but gave no indication as to how he would plead to the charges. The 22-year-old faces five federal counts connected to the Sa...

Gabrielle Giffords Has 100 Percent Chance of Survival, Says Doctor
​Dr. Peter Rhee, the medical director for Tucson's University Medical Center's trauma center, has said that Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords has a "100 percent" chance of survival. "As a physician I'm going to get into a lot of trouble for this, but her prognosis for survival is 100 percent, as far as it being short term," he told a British TV station, via Politico. "Hopefully she'll live to be 95 years old." Meanwhile, the Hospital's chief of Neurosurgery Dr. Michael Lemole sa...

What President Obama should say (#obamashouldsay)
President Obama is scheduled to speak in Arizona Wednesday evening. The Speech will come four days after a gunman, identified by police as Jared Lee Loughner, killed six people and wounded 14 during a shooting rampage in front of a Tucson Supermarket. Among the dead: a nine-year old girl who aspired to enter politics and a Federal Judge. Among the wounded: Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.), the apparent target. Analysts and commentators around the web are giving the president advice regarding wh...

Top Republican Rep. Pete King to Introduce Gun-Control Legislation
ABC News’ John R. Parkinson reports:  The chairman of the House Committee on Homeland Security Peter King, R-New York, announced today that he will introduce a bill that would ban knowingly carrying a firearm within 1,000 feet of certain high-profile government officials.  [Mayor Michael Bloomberg] and I have discussed that we are introducing in the next several weeks Legislation which would make it a federal crime to carry a weapon within 1,000 feet of any event which is attend...

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...

Arizona Sheriff Dever Says Its Frightening to Lay Blame on Anyone Elses Doorstep
Of all the great sheriffs in Arizona, the tragedy had to happen in Dipstick’s district. Today, Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever said he did not understand why Dipstick would lay blame at anyone else’s doorstep. Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever said he does not understand why his friend and colleague, Pima County Sheriff Clarence Dupnik, would suggest at a news conference following Saturday’s shooting in Tucson that political ideology played a role in the tragedy. At a press...

Bogus Fox claim that DHS tied shooter to white supremacists is debunked
I reported yesterday that the Department of Homeland Security was denying a Fox story claiming the agency had established possible links between the shooter and a white supremacist organization. Now Ken Vogel debunks the story completely: An Arizona Law Enforcement agency is backing away from a document it produced in the aftermath of Saturday's shootings in Tucson -- and which was leaked to Fox News -- that linked the man accused with carrying out the Crimes to a white nationalist publication...

Sarah Palin's presidential hopes surely can't survive this assassin's bullet | Jonathan Freedland
It's not exactly fair. Palin didn't pull the trigger that killed six people, including a nine-year-old girl, in Arizona and left a member of Congress fighting for her life. But politics isn't fair. The cold reality is that the individual most politically damaged by the Saturday shootings is the former vice-presidential Candidate turned Reality TV star, bestselling author and all-round media phenomenon. For proof, just imagine how a Palin Presidential Campaign would now unfold. Her fellow Republi...

Ariz. lawmakers seek ban on funeral protests
TUCSON, Jan. 11 (UPI) -- Arizona lawmakers were rushing to pass a law Tuesday that would protect the families of Tucson's Shooting Victims from Funeral Protests. The leader of a Kansas sect of self-proclaimed Baptists says "God sent" the man accused of shooting 20 people in Arizona, killing six of them. GALLERY: The aftermath of the Rep. Giffords shooting In a telephone interview with the New Times in Phoenix, Shirley Phelps-Roper, a leader of the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, said 22-year...

Families Speak as Tucson Preps for Memorial
The collection of candles and flowers grows outside the Tucson Hospital where Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and those wounded in the Jan 8 shooting rampage in Arizona are being treated. Mourners will gather Tuesday night for mass to remember the six killed in the shooting. President Obama will arrive in Tucson Wednesday for a memorial service for the Victims. Meanwhile, Rep. Giffords's miraculous survival is being trumped by news of her amazing recovery. Doctors report that the he biggest danger to ...

Gun sales soar 60 percent in Ariz.
Gun sales soared in Arizona and several other states on Monday after the shooting of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, according to FBI figures provided to Politico. Gun sales skyrocketed 60 percent in Arizona on Monday Jan. 10, compared to the corresponding Monday last year. Giffords was shot on Saturday, Jan 8 and six others were killed. Continue Reading Text Size - + reset POLITICO 44 Nationwide, sales were 5 percent higher on Monday than they were a year ago. Gun sales spiked after the 2007 sho...

King to introduce gun-restriction legislation in response to Tucson shooting
Rep. Peter King, a Republican from New York, will introduce Legislation that will make it a federal crime to carry a firearm within 1,000 feet of federal officeholders and judges in response to the shooting in Tucson that killed Judge John Roll and gravely injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.  King, who chairs the Homeland Security committee in the House, will get support from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg, a longtime advocate for Gun Control (via The Daily Caller): Rep. Peter King, a Rep...

John Rosenthal: Congress-Wake Up and Smell the Gunfire
Gun violence in America results in over 30,000 deaths a year; more than 80 deaths and 200 gun related injuries everyday. In the wake of the latest Mass Shooting in Tucson Arizona, where a mentally unstable 22-year-old gunman bought a semi-automatic pistol and large capacity ammunition clip at a gun store and killed 6 and wounded 14, including a Congresswomen and Federal Judge, members of Congress say they're "shocked". That such a tragedy could happen to one of their own "just doing her job a...

Judge upholds Algerian's detention at Guantnamo
Source: The Miami Herald WASHINGTON -- A Federal Judge Tuesday upheld the Indefinite Detention at Guantánamo Bay of a Prisoner who was captured in Pakistan with an alleged Terrorist after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks. Algerian captive Abdul Razak Ali, 40, claimed his was a case of mistaken identity and denied that he engaged in any Terrorist activity. But U.S. District Judge Richard Leon said there was ample evidence showing Razak Ali was part of a fighting force formed by Zayn Abdeen al-Hussein, ...

Newsweek: DHS tried to warn us about attacks from right-wing extremists, didnt they?
The title of the piece, printed above a photo of Loughner’s home and the now famous crazy-eyes mugshot: “The Missed Warning Signs.” Am I awake? Two years before the Tucson massacre, the Department of Homeland Security warned in a report that right-wing Extremism was on the rise and could prompt “lone wolves” to launch attacks. But the agency backed away from the report amid intense criticism from Republicans, including future House Speaker John Boehner. The report...