Lawyers For 'Unabomber,' White Supremacist To Represent Jared Lee Loughner

Giffords still in critical state
Will US Gun Laws change? The US congresswoman shot in a gun attack in Arizona is still in a critical condition in Hospital but showing good signs, her doctor says. A Mass for the six dead and Ms Giffords and more than a dozen others wounded in Saturday's attack was planned for Tuesday in Tuscon, Arizona. Jared Loughner, 22, is charged with the attack. He waived bail on Monday. On Tuesday Morning, Dr Lemole told NBC Ms Giffords's brain was "working at a higher level" and she ...

Holder calls shootings unspeakably tragic (AP)
WASHINGTON – The killing of a Federal Judge and attempted Assassination of an Arizona congresswoman are an "unspeakable tragedy" that serve as a reminder that violence and cruelty persist more than 40 years after the Assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Attorney General Holder said Tuesday. Threats against public officials "continue to be cause for concern and vigilance," Holder told a Justice Department memorial for the slain Civil Rights leader in advance of the holiday commemorati...

Shot US lawmaker 'breathing on her own': doctor
The Arizona lawmaker shot in the head in an attack that killed six in Tucson remains in critical condition but is now capable of breathing on her own, doctors said Tuesday. "She's holding her own," said Michael Lemole, the head neurosurgeon who operated on Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, adding that she was still responding to simple commands, a key sign for her recovery prospects. "She's breathing on her own," added the doctor at University Medical Center, saying they had reduced the sedati...

Mourners to hold 'community healing' Mass after Arizona shooting
Mourners will gather at a memorial Mass Tuesday for Victims of the weekend shooting outside an Arizona Supermarket that killed 6 people and wounded 14 others. The Mass will be held at 7 p.m. (9 p.m. ET) at St. Odiilia Church in Tucson, Arizona - where 9-year-old shooting victim Christina Green had her First Communion a year ago. "Right now it is important as a community to pull together and to reach out in care and concern to all who have been affected by this tragedy," Bishop Gera...

Report: Unabomber Lawyer Clarke to Represent Loughner
Yahoo! Buzz Since Sunday evening, the rumors have been out there that Judy Clarke, the lawyer who has represented a handful of notorious criminals throughout her career, will represent Jared Lee Loughner, the man accused of opening fire at a political event in Tucson on Saturday. CNN says it’s true now, citing a “federal judicial source.” (Click here, meanwhile, for a PDF of the federal charges filed against Loughner. Murder, Attempted Murder, Manslaughter and like Crimes of vi...

Unabomber Lawyer Will Vie to Represent Loughner
Yahoo! Buzz Judy Clarke will ask a Phoenix Federal Judge today to appoint her as Mr. Loughner’s defense counsel, according to the Arizona public defender’s office.  Mr. Loughner is due to make his initial court appearance today after Federal Prosecutors charged him Sunday with the killing and attempted killing of five federal employees, including congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords , who remains in critical condition. Separate state charges against Mr. Loughner are expected. The...

10 Things You Didn't Know About Gabrielle Giffords
1. Gabrielle Giffords was born in Tucson, Ariz. On June 8, 1970 to Gloria, an art conservator, and Spencer Giffords who served on the School Board district and ran the family's auto and tire business, El Campo Tire, Inc. 2. After graduating with a degree in Latin American history and sociology from Scripps College in Claremont, Calif. in 1993, Giffords studied in Mexico on a Fulbright Scholarship. 3. Giffords graduated from Cornell University in 1996 with a master's degree in regional planning...

Politician Safety and Protection
TACTICAL EXTRACTIONS Counterterrorism PAPER 01-2011 SPECIAL By R. J. Godlewski The January 8, 2011 shooting of U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ), Federal Judge John Roll and several others in Tucson has sparked a national outcry of support for the Victims and strong condemnation for the alleged gunman, Jared Loughner, 22. These actions are necessarily part of the human condition. So, too, are reactions taken on the part of the U.S. Congress, the Presidency, and the public regarding...

Huff Po Caught Scrubbing Site of Post Describing a Drone Airstrike on Palins House
Suppose that Sarah Palin lived in Pakistan. Suppose that Jared Loughner, the alleged killer of Federal Judge John Roll and Rep. Gabrielle Giffords’ Staffer Gabe Zimmerman, had once traveled to Pakistan. Suppose that a “credible source” told a U.S. intelligence official that Loughner, while he was in Pakistan, had met with Sarah Palin. And suppose that Sarah Palin had published a map showing Gabrielle Giffords’ Congressional District under the cross hairs of a gun sight (o...

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...

Jared Loughner Will be Defended By the Woman Who Helped the Unabomber Avoid the Death Penalty
Media-shy Judy Clarke in 1998. Photo: RICH PEDRONCELLI/AFP/Getty Images Judy Clarke, a San Diego-based public defender, will represent Jared Lee Loughner, the twenty-two year old charged with shooting Gabrielle Giffords and seventeen other people, killing six. Even Fidel Castro has voiced disdain for Loughner, who authorities describe as "a troubled individual," but Clarke is no stranger to defending high-profile Public Enemies. Previously, she represented the Unabomber, Eric Robert Rudolph (t...

Jared Loughner Appears In Court, Giffords 'Still Fighting' (LIVE UPDATES)
PHOENIX — The nation got its first look on Monday at the 22-year-old loner accused of trying to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords. Jared Loughner, head shaved, a cut above the right temple and his hands cuffed, scanned a packed courtroom and sat down. His attorney, who defended Oklahoma City bomber Timothy Mcveigh and "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski, whispered to him. (SCROLL DOWN FOR LIVE UPDATES) The judge asked Loughner if he understood that he could get life in Prison - or the death pen...

Loughner shoots Palin and Angles political careers to death
It may be weeks, months or perhaps never that we find out what really motivated 22 year-old  Jared Lee Loughner to purchase a 9 mm gun with an extended clip and Murder real people in what he calls “conscience dreaming” [sic]. While he is being assessed, should we wonder why Sarah Palin removed her “crosshairs map” hours after six people were slaughtered and fourteen wounded in a spate of violence?      While a person as deranged as Loughner c...

Lawyer Who Represented Unabomber, Moussaoui and McVeigh to Represent Jared Lee Loughner
She's got an extensive record of representing the most repulsive people knwo to mankind. What could go wrong?The federal public defender's office in Arizona said it planned to ask San Diego attorney Judy Clarke to represent the Arizona man who tried to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killed six others during a shooting in Tucson Saturday. Clarke, a former federal public defender in San Diego, has extensive experience in several extremely high profile cases. Prosecutors charged 22-year ol...

Top lawyer to represent accused Arizona gunman
FILE - In a Dec. 3, 2007 file photo, attorney Judy Clarke leaves the federal building in downtown Boise, Idaho. Public defenders are asking that Clarke, the attorney who defended Oklahoma City bombing conspirator Timothy Mcveigh and "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski, defend Jared Loughner. Loughner is charged with one count of attempted Assassination of a member of Congress, two counts of killing an employee of the Federal Government and two counts of attempting to kill a federal employee. He is schedu ...

Arizona leaders play blame-game, but get it wrong
While investigators continue to investigate the tragic shooting that took place in Tucson last Saturday, leaders in Arizona have eagerly jumped on the main stream media’s overblown, detrimental, blame- game wagon. Only hours after the shooting took place, Pima County Sheriff, Clarence Dupnik argued that the “vitriol” of the Country's harshly polarized political climate was partly to blame, arguing that “unbalanced individuals are uniquely "susceptible" to vitriol.” ...

Arizonans Rally to Prevent Westboro Church Disruption of Shooting Victims' Funerals
Disgusted Arizona residents are locking arms to stop the Westboro Baptist Church from disrupting the Funerals for Victims of Saturday's shooting in Tucson, with bikers and others organizing a massive counter-protest and state lawmakers fast-tracking a bill to hamstring the so-called church. The Kansas-based Westboro church is notorious for showing up at the Funerals of dead Soldiers and other high-profile gatherings wielding inflammatory anti-gay signs. But when the church announced it would pic...

Lawyers: Insanity Defense Wont Work
CNN reports: The alleged shooter in Saturday’s deadly Tucson massacre may have difficulty making the case for a successful insanity plea, experts said Tuesday. Jared Lee Loughner, 22, who authorities say shot up a gathering held by U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, D-Arizona, outside a Supermarket, has been anecdotally regarded as very troubled and perhaps mentally unbalanced because of his ramblings spotted on the Internet and the ways he has been described by acquaintances. But Paul Callan...

Is Sheriff Dupnik Distracting Public From Looking at His Contacts With Killer?
“I’d like to make one additional point on Sheriff Dupnik. I think we’re missing the point when we’re talking about his political agenda. This man and this suspect has had previous contact with the sheriff’s office. It looks to me, we don’t have many details on this, but it looks as though he slipped between the cracks. I think what we really need to look into is what happened when he had previous contact with the sheriff’s office with their negligence he...

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...

Sen. McCain cutting trip short to attend Memorial service in Tucson
According to ABC News’, Matthew Jaffe, Sen. John McCain is cutting short a Congressional trip to Latin America to return to his home state of Arizona for Wednesday’s memorial service for the Victims of last weekend’s Tucson shooting. McCain and his wife Cindy will both attend the memorial service, according to the senator’s spokeswoman Brooke Buchanan. McCain left last Friday with Sen. John Barrasso on a week-long trip to Colombia, Brazil, Chile, Panama and Mexico, but no...

Doctor: Giffords breathing on her own after attack
(01-11) 09:40 PST Tucson, Ariz. (AP) -- Doctors say an Arizona congresswoman is breathing on her own after being shot in the head. Dr. Michael Lemole, Giffords' neurosurgeon, says they've left a breathing tube in Rep. Gabrielle Giffords to protect her airway, but the congresswoman is drawing breaths on her own. She's alert and responding to doctors. Six people are still hospitalized after the shooting Saturday at a Tucson grocery store. The attack killed six and injured 14 others. Giffords, a ...

Doctor: Rep. Giffords breathing on her own after being shot
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Doctors say an Arizona congresswoman is breathing on her own after being shot in the head. Dr. Michael Lemole, Giffords' neurosurgeon, says they've left a breathing tube in Rep. Gabrielle Giffords to protect her airway, but the congresswoman is drawing breaths on her own. She's alert and responding to doctors. Six people are still hospitalized after the shooting Saturday at a Tucson Grocery Store. The attack killed six and injured 14 others. Giffords, a three-term Dem...

Keep rampage blame where it belongs
We add our thoughts and prayers to the many for critically wounded Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and the six people killed, including a senior Federal Judge, a 9-year-old girl fascinated by politics, a congressional aide and three other innocents, as well as the 13 people wounded, in the attack Saturday in Tucson. The accused, Jared Loughner, is a deeply disturbed young man whose violent proclivities had frightened several acquaintances but who had not yet done anything overt enough to bring h...

Rhode Island Governor Bans State Workers from Appearing on Talk Radio
Chafee doesn't plan to spend his own time on Talk Radio, and he intends to ban State Employees from spending their state work time talking on Talk Radio, which was Carcieri's favorite medium and an integral part of his communications operation. You must login to comment. The Fox Nation is for those opposed to intolerance, excessive government control of our lives, and attempts to monopolize opinion or suppress freedom of thought, expression, and worship. Read more... We invite all Americans who ...