RIP, Judge John Roll

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...

Obama: Arizona Shooting Has America Shocked & Grieving
(AP) WASHINGTON - President Barack Obama said the nation is still shocked and grieving after Saturday's deadly shooting rampage in Arizona that killed six people and left a congresswoman in critical condition after being shot point-blank in the head. Speaking in the Oval Office Monday, Obama said Democratic Rep. Gabrielle Giffords is "still fighting". In total, 19 people were shot in the attack; among the six people killed were Arizona's chief Federal Judge, a 9-year-old girl interested in gov...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

Lawyers For 'Unabomber,' White Supremacist To Represent Jared Lee Loughner
The Federal Public Defender's Office on Monday requested that the court appoint Judy Clarke and Mark Fleming to represent Jared Lee Loughner, the suspect allegedly behind the Mass Shooting on Saturday that killed a Federal Judge and gravely injured Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D-AZ). Clarke previously represented "Unabomber" Ted Kaczynski and assisted in the case of confessed al Qaeda operative Zacarias Moussaoui. Fleming represented Aryan Brotherhood defendant Travis Dally in a federal capital mu...

Liberal knee jerk legislation is on the way
Posted by Guest Blogger Locutisprime. I see Rick's post from this morning but would like to add to it. Forty eight hours after the shooting of a congresswoman in Arizona and the Democrats are already formulating Legislation to make it a federal crime to threaten a congressman. 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 federa...

Sen. Ron Johnson Already Playing Calvinball With Judicial Confirmations
Sen. Ron Johnson Already Playing Calvinball With Judicial Confirmations Sen. Ron Johnson (R-WI) has been in office for less than a week, but he’s already contributing to the right’s unprecedented campaign of obstruction against President Obama’s judicial nominees: Newly elected GOP Sen. Ron Johnson said Friday he should have been consulted before the White House resubmitted the nominations of Louis Butler and Victoria Nourse for federal Judgeships and is at this time opposed...

From Seattle P-I columnists Message in blood to dancing in it after Tucson
   Outrage and exploitation seem to be running hand-in-hand, even here in the Pacific Northwest with perspectives on the Crosscut and Seattle P-I.com websites, in the wake of Saturday’s deplorable attempted Assassination of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and the “collateral” slayings of a Federal Judge, four other adults and a 9-year-old child.    Giffords, a pro-gun Democrat who, in 2008, was targeted by the Far Left Daily Kos for having “so...

Obama calls victims' families in Arizona
President Obama is calling the families of Victims from Saturday's Mass Shooting in Arizona, and will continue to do so throughout the week, the White House said. "The President is assuring them that all is being done to try and get to the bottom of this," said a White House statement. "He is offering his full support and thoughts and prayers on behalf of himself, Michelle and the entire nation." Obama is also speaking with lawmakers, and receiving updates on the shooting that left six people d...

Monday round-up
Previews of today’s arguments; weekend coverage of Friday’s certiorari grants; and the Chief Justice responds to Saturday’s shootings. The Court will hear oral argument this morning in two cases. First up is the interstate water dispute, Montana v. Wyoming. At issue in the case is Montana’s contention that Wyoming’s upstream use of increasingly efficient irrigation techniques in two tributaries of the Yellowstone River violates Montana’s rights under the Yello...

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....

Thumbnail sketches of victims in Tucson shooting
John Roll, 63: Named Arizona's chief Federal Judge in 2006, U.S. District Judge Roll won acclaim for a career as a respected jurist and leader who pushed to beef up the court's strained bench to handle a growing number of border-related cases. Roll was appointed to the federal bench in 1991 by President George H.W. Bush. Christina Taylor Green, 9: Even though she was only 9, the third-grader already was an aspiring politician. Her parents say Christina had just been elected to the Student counc...

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...

Climate of Hate?: Murdered Judge Was w/ Giffords About Illegal Alien Prob
The most notable thing about Saturday’s Safeway massacre, aside from the lives tragically lost, is the plethora of hypocrites and blame-gamer attention whores who’ve predictably crawled out from under their rocks. As I noted Saturday evening, ABC News and the other Mainstream Media outlets wasted no time blaming Saturday’s Safeway massacre by Jared Lee Loughner on supporters of Arizona’s Immigration law and secure borders .  And you’ve seen the rest of the left...

Federal Charges in the Shootings
The Times has posted the Criminal Complaint filed by the U.S. attorney’s office in Arizona. It charges two counts of murdering, and three counts of attempting to Murder, federal officals. Specifically, Count One alleges the Attempted Murder of Rep. Gabrielle Giffords; Counts Two and Three allege the murders of legislative aide Gabriel Zimmerman and chief Federal Judge John M. Roll, respectively; and Counts Four and Five allege the attempted murders of legislative aides Pamela Simon an...

Marshals: We're Taking 'Appropriate Actions' Following Murder Of Federal Judge John Roll
Following the Murder today of Arizona's Chief Federal Judge John McCarthy Roll at the shooting incident in Arizona, a spokesman for the U.S. Marshals Service told TPM the federal agency is taking "appropriate actions to ensure the security of the federal judiciary." "For obvious reasons I cannot discuss any actions we may be taking as a result of the shooting in Arizona," Jeff Carter, Chief of the Office of Public Affairs for the U.S. Marshals Service told TPM in a statement. "What I can tell ...

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...

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...

We Can Not Fear Free and Open Debate
My family and I were shocked and saddened when we learned of the attack on Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, her staff and constituents. Gabrielle is a hard worker, a talented legislator and a genuinely dear person. She is universally liked in the House and every member who served with her feels deeply for her, her family and all those involved. We are praying for her recovery, the recovery of all those injured and comfort for the families of the fallen. This attack was an unspeakable act of violence a...

Giffords environmental advocacy
By now you know the basic story: Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords was shot in the head on Saturday while appearing at a "Congress on Your Corner" event in Tucson. The shooting killed six, among them a federal judge and a nine-year-old girl. Giffords herself seems to be responding to stimuli despite being gravely injured. The suspect, Jared Lee Loughner, is in custody, and while we don't know anything definitive about his motives, many Democrats are pointing out that Giffords -- a Blue Dog in a re...

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...

Remembering Arizona's Victims
The US Capitol dome is shown in the background as flags fly at half staff in honor of the Victims of the shooting in Arizona that injured US Representative Gabrielle Giffords, at the Washington Monument in Washington January 9, 2011. 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 share these...

Meet Your Arizona Superhero: Gabrielle Giffords Gay Latino Intern
Most modern-day interns spend a lot of time listening to hip-hop music on their iPods and refusing to perform any tasks that require actual intellectual or (gasp!) physical effort. How startling, then, that during Saturday’s awful massacre in Tuscon, one of these entitled Mileybots conclusively proved himself to be the Awesomest Intern In The History Of Ever. And in addition to being a brown, he is a gay. This University of Arizona junior, Daniel Hernandez, was only five days into his in...