After a few rounds of threats, the Justice Department announced finally its lawsuit against the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office and Sheriff Joe Arpaio this morning.The lawsuit addresses that “culture of bias” the Justice Department’s been alleging since it released its findings in December, claiming that Arpaio’s office conducts the worst racial-profiling…
UPDATE: As a reader pointed out, the Wall Street Journal says “people familiar with the matter” claim the lawsuit’s being filed tomorrow. The Department of Justice sent letters notifying Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery and Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s lawyers that the DoJ’s suing the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office “in order…
I knew Gilbert massacre shooter J.T. Ready was from Polk County, Florida, and I had contacted some relatives of his over the weekend seeking comment. (No luck, alas.) But until today, I could find no mention of him in his hometown newspaper, The Ledger, located in Lakeland, Florida.Thankfully, Ledger reporter…
The book co-authored by one of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s purported “special deputies”/ex-Sheriff’s Posse member is “all wrong,” according to the sheriff.Between “no comment” and “it’s all wrong,” Arpaio tells New Times that he didn’t actually read the book apparently slamming his investigation into President Obama’s birth certificate and…
Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio put the 60th notch in his illegal-immigrant roundup/”employer sanctions operation” belt today, as deputies nabbed four people at a Tempe office furniture store.Running off another “tip,” deputies went to Interior Solutions in Tempe this morning, arresting four people believed to be in the country illegally on…
Update: We spoke with AJ News editor Ed Barker and Steve Kizer, director of Pinal County Elections Department. “Paul Babeu is going to run for a second term as sheriff,” AJ News Editor Ed Barker wrote in a column this week. “Yep, he’s fallen from grace in the Congressional race…
We’ve previously mentioned some of the stranger aspects of Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s “birther” investigation — parts not related to Arpaio and company thinking President Obama’s from Africa — including tidbits of information that would lead a reasonable person to believe the “investigation” isn’t really about exposing some massive…
Neo-Nazi J.T. Ready could be quite lucid and genial. Sometimes, he came off as an autodidact, widely read if not highly educated. That impression would last only so long, however. Inevitably, he would make some anti-Semitic or racist comment, or go off on some related tangent involving eugenics or the supposed superiority…
Chuck Norris — the actor who rose to fame after getting his ass kicked by Bruce Lee in Way of the Dragon — just loves Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio.So much, in fact, that Norris recently penned a column praising the sheriff and condemning the typical members of the far-right-wing…
Why is it that some lies are so difficult to rebut? One reason: eviscerating untruths is made infinitely harder when the media is complicit in perpetuating them.For many years, I’ve written about the ties between ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce (who believes it’s the Legislature’s “duty” to “reimburse” him $260,000…
J.T. Ready, Arizona’s most prominent neo-Nazi and the one-time political protege of recalled state Senate President Russell Pearce, reportedly is dead by his own hand in what’s described as a multiple murder-suicide in Gilbert that left four others slain, including a 2-year- old. A one-time member of the neo-Nazi National Socialist Movement,…
Multiple sources at the state Legislature are informing me that former state Senate President Russell Pearce’s $260,000 “reimbursement” will be added as an amendment to Senate Bill 1449, which I’m told will be in Conference Committee today at 4 p.m. in the State Senate Building.The bill could go to both…
The Capitol Times’ Luigi del Puerto is reporting that the plot to cut a $260,000 check to recalled, disgraced former state Senate President Russell Pearce remains alive at the state Legislature.I’ve heard the votes are not there in the Senate, but, hell, ya never know. Also, it’s not in the budget,…
Eat your heart out, Russ, if you can stand the taste of coalHere’s an incredibly positive new video from the camp of entrepreneur Bob Worsley, candidate for state Senate in Legislative District 25, who is destined to triumph over Mesa’s hillbilly hatemonger, recalled state Senate President Russell Pearce.Love the theme…
Gilman televises the revolution, or part of it…Lordy, I’ve had enough of neo-Nazi hugger, 12-point loser, and ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce’s gorilla mug. No doubt many of you have as well. But until the wingnuts and Tea Party idgits in this state run screaming at the sight of him,…
“The Governor has not proposed any such reimbursement, and it is not currently in the budget that she and legislative leaders have agreed upon.”Of course, that’s not a commitment to oppose it, should an amendment be tacked on.In any case, Pearce clearly believes he deserves the cash. Last night, Pearce was…
Remember when I informed you of the trial balloon being floated by toadies of recalled state Senate President Russell Pearce, lickspittles who long to give their lord and master more than $260,000 of taxpayer funds because he had to endure a recall election, one he lost by a humiliating 12…
Lots of response to this week’s cover story on Cochise County Sheriff Larry Dever, including a bunch of e-mails from folks who were appalled that Pinal County Sheriff Paul Babeu failed to “man up” and return a phone call from his then-close colleague, Dever, in late February after the proverbial…
While recalled ex-state Senate President Russell Pearce was away in D.C. (likely on Judicial Watch’s dime) preparing for his big day before the U.S. Senate Judiciary Committee, and, later, to hear oral arguments on Senate Bill 1070 before the U.S. Supreme Court, a different court here in Sand Land was…
UPDATE 4/26: The settlement has been approved, according to the AP.UPDATE: Judge Wake issued an order saying the parties will meet on Monday to discuss moving the trial date to the week after the board of supervisors meeting.The Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office announced today that lawyers agreed to a $175,000…
The former head of the Mesa Police Association, Javier Fabian Cota, accuses San Diego police in a federal lawsuit of violating his rights during a June 4 arrest for alleged public drunkenness.Cota’s story of gettomg thrown in a drunk tank that night, which resulted in a demotion and pay cut…
There’s one general conclusion I have after reading and re-reading the transcript of Wednesday’s oral argument before the U.S. Supreme Court over Senate Bill 1070: Latinos and their allies cannot rely on the federal government or the courts for a long term solution to the overt bigotry that spawned SB…
