Our corrupt Attorney General Mark Brnovich, aka “Nunchucks” (or is it numbnuts?) has been abusing the powers of his office by using the AG’s office as his Senate campaign office. He files politically motivated lawsuits which would appeal to the GQP crazy base, then makes a beeline for FOX News to hype his lawsuit, and to make an appeal for his failing campaign.
As the Arizona Mirror reported in May, Dem AG candidate Mayes: Brnovich has politicized his office and should resign (excerpt):
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich should resign to focus on his bid for U.S. Senate for “politically motivated activities” that are preventing him from his elected duties, said Kris Mayes, a former corporation commissioner and the Democratic nominee for attorney general.
Brnovich has siphoned millions of dollars earmarked to prevent consumer fraud in Arizona in order to pay for lawsuits against Joe Biden’s presidential administration and other Democratic officials, according to an AZFamily report.
[B]rnovich is running for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate and has used his office’s bully pulpit to boost his candidacy in a crowded primary election. Brnovich has used his office to file numerous lawsuits against the Biden administration over everything from immigration enforcement policies to COVID-19 mitigation efforts, and has regularly appeared on conservative news programs to both talk about the litigation and generally criticize Democrats.
Kris Mays noted in an April op-ed that then-Arizona Republic columnist Robert Robb and Arizona Daily Star columnist Tim Steller also called on Brnovich to resign for failing to perform his basic duties. Mark Brnovich refused to defend election law, but that’s not his only sin (excerpt):
Earlier this month, Arizona Republic columnist Bob Robb argued that GOP Attorney General Mark Brnovich is failing to fulfill his basic duties by refusing to defend Arizona’s mail-in voting system and is using the AG’s Office to advance his own political ambitions.
Robb is correct. So is Tim Steller, the Arizona Daily Star columnist who made similar arguments recently.
No attorney general in Arizona history has politicized and abused his authority as blatantly and comprehensively as Mark Brnovich. His failure to defend Arizona’s popular and fully constitutional system of mail-in voting in the case that was brought by the Arizona Republican Party before the state Supreme Court is just one example of Brnovich’s selfish dereliction of duty.
Today, Arizona Republic columnist Laurie Roberts takes “Nunchucks” to task for his 18 month failure to investigate Arizona’s fake GQP eelctors who were co-conspirators and accessories to Donald Trump’s Coup Plot:
In March 2021, a Georgia prosecutor asked a judge to impanel a special grand jury to investigate efforts by then-President Donald Trump to sway the outcome of the 2020 presidential election in that state.
Meanwhile, Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich … didn’t. This, even though White House and Trump campaign officials also pressured Arizona’s Republican leaders to change the outcome of the election. Three months later, he would announce that he was running for the Senate.
In May, Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis announced she was broadening her investigation to look into that state’s fake 16 fake electors who signed bogus documents falsely claiming that Trump won Georgia.
Meanwhile in Arizona, Brnvoich … didn’t. This, even though Arizona had fake electors, too – 11 of them. Brnovich, after all, was still chasing Trump’s endorsement in a crowded Senate Republican primary.
Last week, Willis notified Georgia’s fake electors – including the chairman of the Georgia Republican Party – that they are targets of the Fulton County grand jury investigation and may face criminal charges for their role in attempting to overturn the 2020 election.
Meanwhile, Brnovich … didn’t. Apparently, our attorney general has no questions for Arizona’s fake electors – including state GOP Chairwoman Kelli Ward – about their scheme to steal Arizona’s vote.
As she is wont to do, Roberts then veers off on a tangent down a blind alley, arguing that “Nunchucks” can redeeem himself after losing his primary on Tuesday by investigating the fake GQP electors.
She just can’t bring herself to state the obvious truth that our attorney general has been engaged in an 18 month coverup of the crime to protect high ranking Republicans and their culture of corruption in Arizona, which runs wide and deep. He is an accesory-after-the-fact in the crime by covering it up.
Remember that the Arizona legislature gave “Nunchucks” a budget of a half a million dollars for his bogus Election Integrity Unit (EIU) to investigate allegations of election fraud? Well, here it was, on a silver platter! Instead, he covered it up to protect fellow Republicans.
Like others noted above, Roberts should be calling on Brnovich to resign next Wednesday and allow one of his deputies to run the Attorney General’s office until the next attorney general elected in November is sworn into office next January, hopefully Kris Mayes. “Nunchucks” is too corrupt to be allowed to remain in office.
Despite the certainty that he will lose his primary on Tuesday, “Nunchucks” continues to abuse his office in a desperate attempt to appeal to the GQP crazy base in the waning days of his primary. He is shameless.
Back in April, the Biden administration cracked down on “ghost guns”:
Cracking down on ghost guns – the weapon of choice for many violent criminals
Today, the President and Deputy Attorney General will also announce that the U.S. Department of Justice has issued a final rule to rein in the proliferation of “ghost guns” – unserialized, privately-made firearms that law enforcement are increasingly recovering at crime scenes in cities across the country. Last year alone, there were approximately 20,000 suspected ghost guns reported to ATF as having been recovered by law enforcement in criminal investigations – a ten-fold increase from 2016. Because ghost guns lack the serial numbers marked on other firearms, law enforcement has an exceedingly difficult time tracing a ghost gun found at a crime scene back to an individual purchaser.
This final rule bans the business of manufacturing the most accessible ghost guns, such as unserialized “buy build shoot” kits that individuals can buy online or at a store without a background check and can readily assemble into a working firearm in as little as 30 minutes with equipment they have at home. This rule clarifies that these kits qualify as “firearms” under the Gun Control Act, and that commercial manufacturers of such kits must therefore become licensed and include serial numbers on the kits’ frame or receiver, and commercial sellers of these kits must become federally licensed and run background checks prior to a sale – just like they have to do with other commercially-made firearms.
The final rule will also help turn some ghost guns already in circulation into serialized firearms. Through this rule, the Justice Department is requiring federally licensed dealers and gunsmiths taking any unserialized firearm into inventory to serialize that weapon. For example, if an individual builds a firearm at home and then sells it to a pawn broker or another federally licensed dealer, that dealer must put a serial number on the weapon before selling it to a customer. This requirement will apply regardless of how the firearm was made, meaning it includes ghost guns made from individual parts, kits, or by 3D-printers.
This rule builds on the Biden Administration’s prior executive action to rein in the proliferation of ghost guns. In February 2022, the U.S. Department of Justice launched a National Ghost Gun Enforcement Initiative, which is training a national cadre of prosecutors and disseminating investigation and prosecution tool to help bring cases against those who use ghost guns to commit crimes. As President Biden said during an event at the New York Police Department headquarters, if you use a ghost gun to commit a crime “not only are state and local prosecutors going to come after you, but expect federal charges and federal prosecution as well.”
Who in their right mind would be opposed to making our streets safer by regulating “ghost guns,” by making it harder for criminals to obtain these untraceable weapons increasingly used in crimes? Why, Republican attorneys general, of course! (The qualifier here was “in their right mind.”)
Brnovich joins suit against ATF crackdown of ‘ghost guns’:
Attorney General Mark Brnovich is joining a lawsuit to bar the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms from cracking down on what the agency considers “ghost guns.”
In legal papers filed Wednesday, Brnovich joined with challengers to argue that new rules, set to go into effect next month, violate not only the agency’s authority but exceed the ability of ATF to regulate interstate commerce.
More to the point, the lawsuit argues, the Biden administration is trying to do what it cannot get Congress to enact.
“The final rule unconstitutionally subverts Congress’ authority, exercising quintessentially legislative powers in a manner that could never pass either (let alone both) houses of Congress today, which is precisely why defendants have no intent whatsoever to ask for legislative authorization to take such unprecedented actions,” the lawsuit states. “Yet under our Constitution, the president (much less unelected and unaccountable bureaucrats within the executive branch) is not a king who can exercise this sort of unbridled power unilaterally.”
And the lawsuit is an attempt by the administration to “broadly rewrite federal gun-control laws to suit a radically anti-gun political agenda.”
The lawsuit was originally filed earlier this month in North Dakota by a licensed firearms dealer, Gun Owners of America and Eliezer Jimenez, a member of that group who makes his own firearms from parts he acquires.
Now Brnovich said he is joining to keep ATF from regulating unfinished, non-functional parts of guns as if they were complete firearms.
In a press release, his office said that “threatens the American tradition of private firearms manufacturing that predates the Revolution.” And a press aide for Brnovich, a Republican running for U.S. Senate, said using state resources to join the lawsuit is justified because her boss “has a right to protect Arizona from overreach of the federal government.”
There was no immediate comment from ATF, which has yet to file a formal response to the original lawsuit.
The ATF rule has its roots in plans announced by the Biden in April to rein in the proliferation of “ghost guns,” defined by the administration as “unserialized, privately made firearms that law enforcement are increasing recovering a crime scenes across the country.”
So AG “Nunchucks” is in favor of criminals having easy access to untraceable guns increasingly used in crimes against civilians and quite likely against law enforcement, putting their lives at risk. Yeah, that’s “back the blue’ for you. Sounds to me as if he is auditioning for his next lawyering job after he leaves office with one of the gun rights organizations. Better pay.
But wait! There’s more. AG “Nunchucks” wants to get in on the GQP’s culture war of abusing transgender kids, as if they are not already at risk in our society.
By the way, you White Christian Nationalists, this doesn’t sound very Christ-like to me. WWJD? Certainly not what you transphobes do, that’s a certainty.
Brnovich joins GOP lawsuit taking aim at USDA’s transgender discrimination guidance:
Two weeks after nearly two dozen Republican attorneys general won an injunction against the U.S. Department of Education and Equal Employment Opportunity Commission for attempting to implement new rules preventing and combating discrimination based on gender identity or sexual orientation, the same group of plaintiffs have returned to the same court to train their crosshairs on a different federal agency.
The rules were published in the wake of an executive order issued by President Joe Biden on his first day in office in 2021, an order requiring federal agencies to review and revamp policies related to gender or sexual orientation. On July 15, U.S. District Judge Charles E. Atchley Jr. of the Eastern District of Tennessee granted the injunction, determining the rules interfere with “states’ rights” to enforce their own laws.
Note: U.S. District Judge Charles E. Atchley Jr. is a Trump appointed Judge. He was nominated on September 22. 2020, and confirmed by a vote of 54-41 vote of the U.S. Senate on December 17, 2020. Atchley was confirmed to the U.S. District Court under a new precedent established by Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell lowering the maximum time allowed for debate on executive nominees to posts below the Cabinet level and on nominees to district court judgeships from 30 hours after invoking cloture down to two hours. (Fast Track). The change was passed under a procedure, often referred to as the nuclear option, that requires 51 votes rather than 60. Pay attention Democratic Senators! Fill those judicial vacancies NOW!
Who knew that there are still segregationists in Tennessee who use the segregationists’ code words of “states’ rights“?
Perhaps emboldened by the order, the same group of conservative attorneys general filed a new complaint in federal court against the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and its interpretation of how the order applies to federally funded Food and Nutrition Services (FNS) in public schools.
So what, now you want to deny school lunches to transgenger kids? It’s not enough that you want to abuse them, but now you want them to go hungry too? The cruelty is the point.
Similar to the complaint filed against the Department of Education and EEOC, the coalition of 22 [GQP] attorneys general led by Tennessee Attorney General Herbert H. Slatery III, claim the USDA’s action is the result of a misapplication of the U.S. Supreme Court’s holding in Bostock v. Clayton County, which determined under Title VII, “employers are prohibited from firing employees on the basis of homosexuality or transgender status.” Further, they claim the USDA ignored the legal process mandated by the Administrative Procedure Act and instead, “coopted a previously discarded proposed regulation from 2016 to issue the new Final Rule.”
The new complaint refers to the rules as an “overreach,” which “expand the law far beyond what statutory text, regulatory requirements, judicial precedent, and the U.S. Constitution permit.” Further, the group claims the federal government has no right to impose new rules for “highly controversial and localized issues” without public hearings, alleging it creates “unlawful and unnecessary new obligations and liabilities … that apparently stretch as far as ending sex-separated living facilities and athletics and mandating the use of biologically inaccurate preferred pronouns.”
Alabama Attorney General Steve Marshall issued a news release claiming the policy will “hold schoolchildren’s food hostage to advance radical gender ideology.” Calling it both “immoral and illegal,” Marshall said Alabama’s Title IX and SNAP school-lunch funding “would be at risk if a school determines that a boy cannot compete on the girls’ swim team or refuses to allow boys into the girls’ locker room.”
Arizona Attorney General Mark Brnovich said the Biden administration’s effort is “unlawful and despicable.”
Wait, who does this remind you of? I know!
“USDA Choice applies to beef at the market, not to our children’s restrooms,” he quipped in a statement.
“Nunchucks” is a demagogic idiot.
According to Marshall’s office, the National School Lunch Program services nearly 30 million schoolchildren each day, many of whom rely on it for breakfast, lunch, or both. Approximately 100,000 public and nonprofit private schools and residential childcare institutions receive federal funding to provide subsidized free or reduced-price meals for qualifying children.
Also listed as plaintiffs are the attorneys general from Alaska, Arkansas, Georgia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Mississippi, Montana, Nebraska, Ohio, Oklahoma, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Virginia, and West Virginia. [All Republicans.]
The case has not yet been assigned to a judge in the district.
It was filed in Tenessee wasn’t it? Chances are Tennesee’s attorney general is forum shopping for U.S. District Judge Charles E. Atchley Jr.
Attorney General Mark Brnovich aka “Nunchucks” has been the worst, most corrupt attorney general in state history. He should resign next Wednesday after losing his primary. He cannot be allowed to remain in office to continue abusing the powers of hs office. He should be investigated for the cover-up of the fake GQP electors scheme. And he should be disbarred because of his conduct in office so that he can never practice law again.
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