Reports: Judge Roll Received Death Threats

RIP, Judge John Roll
RIP, Judge John Roll A news release posted at the U.S. District Court of Arizona: The U.S. District Court for the District of Arizona has suffered a grievous loss today with the untimely death of Chief Judge John M. Roll, who was shot and killed when a gunman opened fire on a crowd at an event hosted by Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords in Tucson, Arizona. Judge Roll was appointed to the federal bench in 1991, and served as chief judge of the district since 2006. The devoted husband, father of ...

UT Congressman: Security Away from Capitol Hill is a "Mixed Bag"
In the wake of the tragic shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz) many of her colleagues in Congress are reevaluating their security policies. Speaking a day after the incident, Congressman Jason Chaffetz (R-Utah) told Fox News he's concerned about his safety, especially when his work takes him off Capitol Hill. Chaffetz described Capitol police as doing an "exceptional job, we are told [the U.S. Capitol] is a top Terrorist target and there is adequate security." But back i...

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 ...

FASCIST PIGS, FANATICAL IDEOLOGUES, AND DELUSIONAL ILLNESS
One of the more interesting emails I received yesterday after the unfolding of the attempted Assassination of Gabrielle Giffords and the Murder of others, including a Federal Judge in Arizona, was the following: "This is what comes of spewing hate, you fascist pig!" I find it interesting primarily because it encapsulates in an enlightening way the leftist mindset which has been described in the last several posts on Dr. Sanity. I have not met or examined the individual who is in custody for thi...

Federal judge, 9-year-old girl among Ariz. shooting victims
A gunman opened fire during a "Congress on Your Corner" event at a Tucson Safeway Saturday, killing six people and injuring 15, including Rep. Gabrielle Giffords,D- Ariz. Those killed include: •Christina Green, 9 Green, who was born on Sept. 11, 2001, was recently elected to her school's Student council and was brought to the event by a neighbor who thought she might be interested. She is the grandaughter of Dallas Green, the former manager of the Philadelphia Phillies major league basebal...

Congresswoman fights for life after shooting
Democratic congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, was fighting for her life on Sunday following a shooting rampage that left at least six people, including a nine-year-old girl and a Federal Judge dead. Ms Giffords, a 40-year-old member of the House of Representatives who first took office in 2007, was shot in the head at close range while attending a public event called “Congress on your Corner”, at a Supermarket in Tucson, Arizona, on Saturday. EDITOR’S CHOICE Congresswoman fights for life a

Thumbnail sketches of victims in Tucson shooting
Named Arizona’s chief Federal Judge in 2006, U.S. District Judge John M. Roll won acclaim for a career as a respected jurist and leader who had pushed to beef up the court’s strained bench to handle a growing number of border crime-related cases. Roll was appointed to the federal bench in 1991 by President George H.W. Bush. He previously served as a state trial judge and as a judge on the midlevel Arizona Court of appeals, and as a county and state prosecutor. Bishop Gerald Kicanas o...

Federal Judge John Roll Among Those Killed In Arizona Shooting
TPM has the details… WNBC reporter Jonathan Dienst confirmed Roll was killed. A statement from Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano said in a statement that Roll had been attacked. And looks like he had received numerous death threats after allowing a Civil Rights case to move forward. When Roll ruled the case could go forward, Gonzales said talk-radio shows cranked up the Controversy and spurred audiences into making threats. In one afternoon, Roll logged more than 200 phone cal...

Fed Judge John Roll Killed in Shooting
Huffington Post reports: U.S. Marshal for Arizona David Gonzales confirmed to the Associated Press that the U.S. District Judge had died. He offered no other details on the shooting. Arizona Central talked to Gonzales in 2009 after Roll allowed a $32 million civil-rights Lawsuit to proceed against a local rancher. The case was filed by Illegal Immigrants and drew the ire of local Talk Radio hosts, who “spurred audiences into making threats.” In one afternoon, Roll logged more than ...

911 calls: "I do believe Gabby Giffords was hit" (audio)
A 911 caller witnessing the Mass Shooting outside a grocery store in Tucson describes a frantic scene and says, "I do believe Gabby Giffords was hit." In a tape of the call released Sunday by the Pima County Sheriff's Office, a person putting up a display for a pill bottling company was among the first to report the crime. The caller says: "It's Giffords! There was a shooting at Safeway at Ina & Oracle where Gabrielle Giffords was. I do believe Gabby Giffords was hit. A guy had a semiautomatic p...

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...

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...

Mike Hegedus: We Have Seen the Assassin and He Is Us
For the longest time I thought it was funny. Well, maybe not funny just kinda weird. The very first night I lived in Tucson Arizona I turned on the local news and was greeted by an interview with a local Law Enforcement Chief thanking a couple of residents for their quick action in helping one of his officers. It seems they had seen him, the officer, chasing a suspect and had jumped out of their car and helped him. Jumped out of their car with their guns drawn. Their legal guns. The Chief was ...

Glock Fire
Editor’s Note: Catch Larry Johnson on John Batchelor’s syndicated Radio Show TONIGHT at around 10:05 to 10:35 p.m. ET. You’ll find programming details and “how to listen” instructions at the end of this post. The Tucson shootings will undoubtedly be part of the discussion. Spoke Thaddeus Mccotter, Devin Nunes, Elliot Engel, all members of Congress, re the shooting of colleague Gabrielle Giffords, and re the fact that death threats are not rare in the life of a memb...

Insanity Nation
First, toldja so: Newsmax declares “Shooter Linked to Left Wing Politics.” Yes, by Newsmax. Apparently it was reported the young man accused of shooting owns copies of The Communist Manifesto and Mein Kampf, which of course (in the minds of righties, who cannot figure out why Hitler was a right-wing psychopath, not a left-wing one) proves he’s a leftie. Anyway, the more I hear about the shooter, the more it appears he was deeply disturbed, possibly psychotic. I am not qualif...

Infidel Bloggers Alliance
Gabrielle Giffords was shot because she is Jewish? From Carl: Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords (D-Az) wasn't shot because she was pro or anti-immigration. She wasn't shot because she voted against Nancy Pelosi for Speaker of the House. She wasn't shot because Sarah Palin targeted her seat in last fall's Elections. And she wasn't shot because she voted for ObamaCare. Gabrielle Giffords was shot because of a much more baseless hatred. Gabrielle Giffords was shot because she is a Jew!

Infidel Bloggers Alliance
The 9 year old girl killed today had been invited to the event by a neighbor because she had just been elected to the Student council and the neighbor thought it would be good for her to see it. Greg Segalini, uncle of one of the youngest Victims of the Tucson shooting rampage at a political event outside of a Safeway store on Saturday, January 8, 2011 (Photo by Jim Cross/KTAR) Labels: MR ...

Lawmakers Plan Security Review, No Votes Next Week In Wake of Gabrielle Giffords Shoothing
 ABC's Jonathan Karl Reports:   This afternoon the House leadership, including John Boehner and Nancy Pelosi, held an extraordinary bi-partisan call to brief members on the Arizona shooting and the Congressional response.      Speaker Boehner announced there will be a bi-partisan security briefing on Capitol Hill on Wednesday by the Capitol Police, Sergeant at Arms and FBI.   Also on Wednesday, the House will convene to pass a resolution honoring Gabrielle...

Gabrielle Giffords' 2010 campaign was costly, close, and contentious
The best of the best of state-based political blogs -- as of April 2009. Arizona Rep. Gabrielle Giffords (D) eked out a victory over Iraq War Veteran Jesse Kelly (R) in a costly and contentious congressional campaign last November. The race -- and particularly its tone -- has taken on newfound resonance in the wake of the Congresswoman being shot in the head at a constituent gathering on Saturday in Tucscon. Giffords, who had faced few serious challenges in her rapid ascent from state legislatur...

Shooting could tame tough political rhetoric
By Richard Cowan WASHINGTON | Sun Jan 9, 2011 4:39pm EST WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Protesters parade an altered photo of President Barack Obama sporting an Adolf Hitler-like mustache. A Candidate for the Senate muses about gun "remedies" if Election Results don't go the right way. Members of Congress are spat on and taunted with racial epithets before casting votes for a Healthcare Reform bill. Welcome to politics American-style. For the past few years, some public officeholders and pundits have...

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Roger Ailes
Howard Kurtz's Moronic Equivalence Greasy-wigged Republican Howard Kurtz has finally found a Victim in yesterday's massacre in Arizona. It's Sarah Palin. I hate to say this [sic], but the blame game is already under way. It began within hours of Saturday's horrifying shooting of Arizona Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords and nearly 20 others, even before the gunman was identified. Political Target Map as seen on Sarah Palin's website. Inset: Sarah Palin and Gabrielle Giffords (AP Photo) One of t...

3 helped subdue man who killed 6 at Arizona store
TUCSON, Ariz. (AP) — Three people helped subdue a gunman accused of attempting to assassinate Rep. Gabrielle Giffords and killing six people at a political event in Arizona. Pima Co. Sheriff Clarence Dupnik says Patricia Maisch (MAYSH) was waiting in line with her husband to get a photo with Giffords. When the shooting started, she ran up to the suspect and grabbed the empty magazine, then grabbed a full magazine as he was loading it into the gun. Two men helped subdue the suspect — ...

Pelosi Leads Moment of Silence for Shooting Victims
Nancy Pelosi led a moment of silence Saturday, for the Arizona Representative Gabrielle Giffords who was shot in the head earlier that day. At a planned event in San Francisco, Pelosi said Giffords is a "brilliant and patriotic American," according to the Associated Press. Giffords was hospitalized after being shot at a public event in Tucson, Arizona. The congresswoman is in critical condition after undergoing surgery Sunday morning. Doctors are optimistic for her survival, stating th...

20-year-old Intern Hailed as Hero
Daniel Hernandez had been U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords' intern for five days when she was shot Saturday outside Tucson. The junior at the University of Arizona was helping check people in at the "Congress on Your Corner" event when he heard gunfire. He was about 30 feet from the congresswoman. When the shots began, he ran toward them. "I don't even know if the gunfire had stopped," he said Saturday night as he kept a vigil at the University Medical Center cafeteria, gathered near a TV watching t...