Please see the Election Integrity Homepage for complete coverage and the latest news. The Democratic Party’s Election Integrity Committee has been locking horns with Pima County over the security of the elections systems used in local elections. The result has been a protracted lawsuit that is trying to get access to public election records and … Read more
UPDATE: I’ve now made the materials released thus far by Judge Baca in the New Times affair available online to anyone who is interested in viewing them: GJDocuments1.pdf GJDocuments2.pdf GJDocuments3.pdf GJDocuments4.pdf GJDocuments5.pdf GJDocuments6.pdf GJDocuments7.pdf GJDocuments8.pdf GJDocuments9.pdf BacaTranscripts.pdf A preliminary review of the documents reveals that Judge Baca released all documents related to the legal tussle … Read more
The arrest of the founders of the New Times for revealing the contents of an overly broad Grand Jury subpoena was not only an egregious example of prosecutorial harassment by Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas and his hand-picked ‘special prosecutor’ Dennis Wilenchik, it may also have been a blatant misuse of the law. I have … Read more
American demagogues, such as Senator Joe McCarthy, tend to over-reach in a system designed to prevent over-reach (how we can explain the lack of resistance to Bush’s over-reaching, I haven’t yet figured out). Eventually, these authoritarian personalities, drunk on power and their initial success take a bite they are unable to chew. In McCarthy’s case, … Read more
In the parlance of thugs, to greenlight an enemy is to put out the word that the mark is fair game, and anyone who takes a whack at the target will be rewarded. It is therefore contextually appropriate to say that Maricopa County Attorney Andrew Thomas has greenlighted Judge Ryan to the hate-filled immigration crowd … Read more