Category Archives: Law & Courts

May 23, 2013

Ann Coulter: When did we vote to become Mexico?

A majority of Americans still do love this country — including, one hopes, legal immigrants who thought they were leaving Mexico. But a policy that will change America forever is about to slip through under the cloak of endless scandals from the corrupt Obama administration.

At first I thought the IRS scandal was leaked to distract from the Benghazi scandal. But that didn’t make sense because the IRS scandal is a more obvious abuse of power than the White House lying about the murder of four Americans in Libya.

Before I had resolved which scandal was distracting from which, we found out the Department of Justice was spying on The Associated Press — not to protect national security, but to prevent the AP from scooping the White House. Then, this week, it broke that the Department of Justice was also spying on Fox News for reasons that remain unexplained.

Meanwhile, Sens. Marco Rubio, Mitch McConnell, Lindsey Graham and John McCain are working feverishly to turn the country into Mexico.

So now I think all the scandals are intended to distract from Rubio’s amnesty bill.

For decades, Mexicans have been about 30 percent of all legal immigrants to the United States, while only a smidgen more than 1 percent come from Great Britain. Is that fair? Granted, their food is better, but why is it the norm is to have nearly 30 times as many Mexican as British immigrants?

We have been taking in more immigrants from Guatemala, the Dominican Republic and Colombia, individually, than from England, our mother country. There are nearly twice as many immigrants from El Salvador as from Canada, and 10 times as many as from Australia.

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Klamath County drug raids: 38 arrested in operation tied to Mexican cartels

“Agents have developed evidence of connections between the meth ring located in Klamath County and Mexican drug cartels,” according to a statement from the state Justice Department. “The cartels have successfully made inroads into Oregon, particularly into some rural parts of the state.”

Police arrested 38 people and searched 23 locations in predawn raids Wednesday in Klamath County, dismantling a “large and violent” drug organization linked to Mexican drug cartels. Ten people were still being sought.

Law enforcement officials said it was the largest one-day roundup of drug-dealing suspects in recent Oregon history.

The investigation, “Operation Trojan Horse,” was begun after the bodies of two suspected drug traffickers from California were found shot and buried last October on a ranch outside Bonanza, a tiny community 25 miles east of Klamath Falls.

Wednesday’s raids, led by Special Weapons and Tactics teams and involving 300 officers from local, state and federal agencies, hit homes and businesses in Klamath Falls, Chiloquin, Malin and Bonanza to break up a large methamphetamine trafficking organization. The group also trafficked in guns, authorities said. The investigation was orchestrated by the state Criminal Justice Division, a unit of Attorney General Ellen Rosenblum’s office.

Police, who also searched 22 cars and trucks, seized 4 pounds of meth and 25 guns. They acquired another 25 guns earlier in the investigation. Eight children found at raid sites were turned over to state social service workers.

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May 22, 2013

Apple Gets the Abuse It Paid For

Senate Democrats hauled Apple, Inc. before the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations today to ask why the company (legally) pays so little in taxes and keeps so much of its cash overseas (legally, again).

I love Apple products. But politically speaking, they’re playing the game–and getting the abuse they paid for.

In 2012, according to OpenSecrets.org, Apple employees gave nearly 73% of its contributions–to all federal candidates, not just for president–to Barack Obama. And that was the GOP’s best year with Apple donors.

In the past 22 years, Apple employees have given overwhelmingly to Democrats. Republicans barely figure.

It may come as a shock to some Apple employees that Democrats want to damage their company. Some Apple employees, however, might agree with their party–adopting the cognitive dissonance that characterizes so much of the left intelligentsia, which is faintly ashamed of its success but jealously guards its influence.

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Illegal Alien Hit-and-run that left Phoenix officer Daryl Raetz dead arrested on drug charge

While speaking with and conducting a search of Molina during the stop, a small bag of white powder fell to the ground. The 24-year-old reportedly admitted that the substance was cocaine, and was taken into custody.


Officer Daryl Raetz

An illegal alien that left a Phoenix police officer dead has been arrested, according to court paperwork obtained by ABC15?s Christopher Sign.

While Jesus Cabrera Molina has not yet been charged in the death of Officer Daryl Raetz, he is in custody on separate drug charges, the paperwork shows.

Molina was arrested around 1:15 p.m. Sunday during a traffic stop near Thompson Ranch Road and Grand Avenue in Surprise.

The records show Molina was pulled over by an officer who recognized that the 24-year-old’s SUV matched the description of a vehicle involved in the deadly hit-and-run from early Sunday.

According to the court paperwork, Molina’s vehicle was found to have significant damage to the center grill and hood, similar to the vehicle seen fleeing the crash that left Raetz dead near 51st Avenue and Cambridge.

Detectives were also able to match a part left at the hit-and-run scene with “the missing areas” on Molina’s SUV.

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Immigration officers union warns against Senate immigration bill

“The mission of our federal employees is critical to identifying threats and providing for public safety and national security. We are the very backbone of our nation’s immigration system and will be at the center of implementing any immigration reform.” Kenneth Palinkas, president of the National Citizenship and Immigration Services Council

The president of the union representing 12,000 U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services adjudications officers and staff has added his name to a letter of law enforcement officials detailing their concerns about the Senate’s bipartisan “Gang of Eight” immigration bill.

In a statement to be released Monday, obtained by The Daily Caller, Kenneth Palinkas, president of the National Citizenship and Immigration Services Council, offers his AFL-CIO affiliated union’s concerns with the current immigration system and contends that the Senate bill does not address those concerns. He further points out that, like the Immigration and Custom Enforcement employees union, the USCIS Council was not consulted in the bill’s drafting and urges lawmakers to oppose the bill.

“We at USCIS are honored to stand with immigration officers and law enforcement officials across the nation,” says Palinkas in the statement.

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May 21, 2013

TN Labor Department loses ruling in reverse discrimination case

Federal judge upholds reverse discrimination lawsuit against former top state official.


Karla Davis, former state commissioner for Tennessee Department of Labor and Workforce Development

A federal judge has ruled that a former top state Labor Department official can proceed with his suit charging that the former head of the state agency conspired with top aides to fire him and other longtime employees because they are white.

In a 20-page ruling, U.S. District Senior Judge John T. Nixon rejected arguments by the state that Donald B. Ingram, the former administrator of the Division of Employment Security, had failed to provide sufficient evidence of reverse discrimination.

Ingram was fired a year ago by former Labor and Workforce Development Commissioner Karla Davis.

“Ingram has alleged that he is Caucasian and that Davis and her two collaborators are African-American,” Nixon wrote, noting that Ingram also charged that Davis and her two top aides “engaged in a campaign to terminate or force out long term employees, virtually every one of whom was Caucasian and replaced them with African-American employees.”

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May 20, 2013

‘Unconstitutional’: AP CEO Blasts ‘Abusive’ Justice Dept. in First TV Interview Since Scandal Broke

“And if they restrict that apparatus … the people of the United States will only know what the government wants them to know and that’s not what the framers of the Constitution had in mind when they wrote the First Amendment,” he said.


In this Sunday, May 19, 2013, photo provided by CBS News, Gary Pruitt, the President and CEO of the Associated Press, discusses the Justice Department’s seizure of AP reporters’ phone records on CBS’s “Face the Nation” in Washington.

The president and chief executive officer of The Associated Press on Sunday called the government’s secret seizure of two months of reporters’ phone records “unconstitutional” and said the news cooperative has not ruled out legal action against the Justice Department.

Gary Pruitt, in his first television interviews since it was revealed the Justice Department subpoenaed phone records of AP reporters and editors, said the move already has had a chilling effect on journalism. Pruitt said the seizure has made sources less willing to talk to AP journalists and, in the long term, could limit Americans’ information from all news outlets.

Pruitt told CBS’ “Face the Nation” that the government has no business monitoring the AP’s newsgathering activities.

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Breitbart News’ Shapiro Breaks Down AP Scandal (Video)

Breitbart News Editor-At-Large Ben Shapiro goes over the details of the Department of Justice investigation into the phone records of the Associated Press…

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State Treasurer Martha Shoffner Arrested for Extortion by FBI

Sources interviewed by the FBI told Arkansas Business in January that investigators had been examining more than Shoffner’s financial dealings with bond brokers doing business with the State Treasurer’s Office. They were also delving into allegations she converted political campaign funds to personal income.

Arkansas Treasurer Martha Shoffner has been arrested for extortion by the Federal Bureau of Investigation and is being held in Pulaski County Jail, the Associated Press reported Saturday.

FBI spokeswoman Kimberly Brunell told the AP that Shoffner was arrested Saturday at her home in Newport and is scheduled for a federal court hearing Monday. Brunell said Shoffner was arrested on charges of “extortion under color of official right.”

Brunell said she would have more details Monday.

The arrest comes four months after Arkansas Business reported that the Democratic state treasurer had been under criminal investigation for more than a year when, on Dec. 14, the Republican-led Legislative Joint Auditing Committee voted to refer an audit of her office to state and federal authorities.

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May 18, 2013

Press Conference: 54 Colorado Sheriffs File Suit Against Anti-Gun Bills (Video)

The Independence Institute held a press conference on May 17, 2013 announcing the lawsuit against the new anti-gun bills passed by the Colorado legislature and signed by Governor John Hickenlooper.