The Justice Department has given up on settling with Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio and is planning to sue the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office for systematic civil rights abuses of Hispanic residents, a DOJ official indicated in a terse letter to Arpaio’s lawyer on Wednesday. “It is clear that DOJ’s concerted effort to attain voluntary compliance by your client has failed,” Deputy Assistant Attorney General Roy Austin of DOJ’s Civil Rights Division wrote in a letter to Arpaio lawyer Joseph Popolizio obtained by TPM.Reading the article does not paint Mr. Popolizio in a positive light and makes one wonder if he is not better suited for being fired or embarrassed at a major college athletic program, although he may be missing the all important middle "T" (Patino, Paterno, Petrino, which sounds like a bad parody of something Julius Caesar wrote).
Go get him
So many shoes are dropping on Joe Arpaio you have to wonder if we're dealing with a dessert-based Imelda Marcos.
The ring is closing...maybe
As TBogg noted yesterday FoxNews is dispensing it's top-notch "Fox Security" on the trail of the alleged insider that Gawker has retained. So far, this has been done as successfully as Roger Ailes did on the South Beach Diet.
Funny you always think of them as so darned competent:
And that day did come...one day there was a knock on the door and somebody told Al Franken he'd been elected a United States Senator.
BAM!
Why don't Rupert and Ailes simply hack their employees phones and emails?
Oh, right...
[cross-posted at Firedoglake]
Funny you always think of them as so darned competent:
And that day did come...one day there was a knock on the door and somebody told Al Franken he'd been elected a United States Senator.
BAM!
Why don't Rupert and Ailes simply hack their employees phones and emails?
Oh, right...
Mark Lewis, the lawyer who has been at the forefront of efforts to expose the News of the World phone-hacking scandal, is poised to bring the battle for legal redress across the Atlantic and to the doorstep of Rupert Murdoch's media empire...
Details remain sketchy about precisely what Lewis intends to do in the US, but the Guardian has learned that he will be having legal discussions that could lead to several lawsuits being lodged with the New York courts. The direct involvement of the US judicial system in allegations of illegal activity by News Corp employees would bring the scandal dramatically closer to Murdoch's adopted home.Looks like Rupert and Roger are going to have a rough weekend. Thank goodness James Murdoch has some free time now so he'll be available for stress abuse. Hope he likes gimp-suits.
[cross-posted at Firedoglake]
Time to put Hannity on the stand
George Zimmerman to get charged in connection with shooting of Trayvon Martin. Good luck with your pundit-client privilege argument FoxNews.
Isn't this the New Jersey equivalent of praising Castro in Miami?
I guess it beats sitting on the couch all day, like he usually does.
He's got the College of Cardinals vote!
Uh:
Mitt Romney on Fox News Wednesday said he is “in touch” with the American people. “The person I’m out of touch with is Barack Obama,” Romney said.
Another Republican budget expert
Newt Gingrich is trying to position himself as the challenger to Mitt Romney — or as he said in an email to supporters today, “the last conservative standing.” But that may be difficult, given the former House speaker’s anemic fundraising and non-existent campaign organization. Case in point: A $500 check Gingrich wrote bounced.Although it isn't terribly funny to the businesses that Gingrich screwed over (and he wasn't even married to them).
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