Melendres v. Arpaio (2007) is a federal lawsuit filed to stop the practice of racial profiling by the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office. The Court found that there was racial profiling and issued orders to end the practice. Interested readers can follow the history of that case at “What’s Your Evidence”.
The Court’s orders were not fully carried out, racial profiling continued, and federal judge G. Murray Snow ordered hearings on whether Sheriff Arpaio was in contempt of court. Sheriff Arpaio in an attempt to forestall a hearing admitted being in contempt and offered to pay money to settle the issue, but that didn’t work out.
The hearing was held and Judge Snow asked a few probing questions and then it hit the fan. Sheriff Arpaio admitted paying a Seattle software designer named Dennis Montgomery, widely reported to have sold bogus software to the government for detecting terrorist messages, to help him get dirt on the judge. That’s not how Arpaio couched what happened, but it is surely how it looks in some emails that the Court obtained from the Sheriff’s Office--and therein lies the birther angle. The participants in that email chain included Mike Zullo, head of Arpaio’s birther posse, and noted birther attorney Larry Klayman. Other information in the emails indicate that Montgomery was the source of the universe-shattering investigation that the Cold Case Posse has been talking about for a couple of years.
One cannot escape the question of whether Sheriff Arpaio lied in testimony last April when he said that Judge Snow was not individually targeted in what the Sheriff’s Office came to call “The Seattle Operation.” Charts and tables received by Arpaio from Montgomery appear to be very much about targeting the judge. Since Mike Zullo and Larry Klayman were knowledgeable about who was targeting whom, having participated in email exchanges on the subject, it seems extremely likely that these two will appear in federal court to answer questions. Judge Snow yesterday suggested that Klayman could be a witness.
I doubt much will come out about the birther side of the Seattle Operation because it’s not relevant. Still, strange twists do happen sometimes.
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ramboike 101p · 507 weeks ago
ThePunchmaster 63p · 507 weeks ago
You don't have any of Smith's sock puppets to protect you here! I see you cry about being blocked and banned, but as anyone can plainly see, you can post freely just fine. Lying is a requirement of being a birther though. Not all liars are birthers, but all birthers are liars. They're about as unpatriotic as they come. Mocking real war heroes, while putting deserters on a pedestal. Speaking of traitors like Lakin, If it were up to me he would have suffered the fate deserters faced during the first world war, lined up against a wall, then pumped full of lead. A fair number of his supporters would be free to stand there and keep him company, if they so chose. Birthers like to scream about how crimes and felonies were committed, but its the big birther heroes who are actual convicted felons.
You have birthers claiming real tragedies, with real victims, never happened, while purporting supposed impending tragedies that never ever actually happen. Yeah, uh-huh FEMA's gonna get us all, any day now! OOooOoOo! When it comes down to it, birthers are the most un-American Americans around. Seditionists, the lot of you. We used to put those up against the wall too, and let me tell ya, not a single one of you would be missed!
For years, birthers have stated how Obama and everyone who ever supported him would be in irons by now. Like everything else they've been dead wrong about that too.
realitycheck1776 77p · 507 weeks ago
realitycheck1776 77p · 507 weeks ago
When I read, "We read Birther Report so you don't have to" it told me ALL I EVER needed to know about you.
You are EVIL to the CORE.
The Sheeple don't need to check the facts because YOU do it for them.
Just like Communism. You SHALL NOT think for yourself.
I hope they are paying you a lot to spy on Americans.
You will need this money soon.
Dr. Deb is another moronic Birther with no sense of humor who hurls the Communist insults involuntarily like projectile vomit.
bob · 507 weeks ago
So bogus that the MCSO got sued ... and lost. So bogus that the MCSO appealed ... and the appellate court affirmed the lower court's ruling. So bogus that the MCSO didn't comply with the court's remedial orders, and now a court monitor has set up shop in the MCSO to ensure compliance (and report noncompliance).
How's that "so bogus" doing you? More importantly, how is doing for the MCSO and especially Arpaio?