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The United States Supreme Court has overturned the 9th Circuit Court (again) which had issued an injunction barring the State of Arizona from implementing its new law requiring ID to vote. The 9th Circuit Court is the most overturned court in America, giving us such rulings as the one stating saying "under God" in the Pledge of Alliegance is unconstitutional.

From KVOA Tucson''s website:

Supreme Court allows Arizona to require ID in November elections

PHOENIX -- Arizona voters will have to show identification after all to cast ballots next month.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday reversed a lower court injunction barring the state from implementing new rules requiring voters to show ID at the polls in the Nov. 7 general election.

The Supreme Court''s ruling was the latest and apparently final word on whether the voter ID requirement, first used statewide in the Sept. 12 primary election, would be in force in the general election.

A day before the primary, a federal judge ruled the state could enforce the law. But two weeks later, the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals blocked it from being used in the general election. The state then appealed to the Supreme Court.

"This decision eliminates all confusion about what rules will be followed for the Nov. 7 general election," Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard said.

The justices cautioned that they were not issuing a ruling on the constitutionality of Arizona''s law. "As we have noted, the facts in these cases are hotly contested," the court said in an unsigned five-page opinion released in Washington.

The ruling on part of Proposition 200 merely allows the Nov. 7 election to proceed with the identification requirements in place. Federal courts still will have to resolve a lawsuit contending that the law will disenfranchise numerous voters, particularly the elderly and minorities.

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http://kvoa.com/Global/story.asp?S=5569334

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Border Patrol agent Jose Alonso Compean was sentenced to 12 years in prison and his fellow agent, Ignacio Ramos, to 11 years in prison for shooting a drug smuggler (who survived) on the American side of the border. The drug smuggler was given full immunity to testify against the two border patrol agents.

This is an outrageous miscarriage of justice. Our Border Patrol has the toughest, most dangerous job in America. You can make your voice heard by contacting your Congressman and Senators and tell them this outrageous verdict must not stand. Three of the jurors have signed statements alleging jury misconduct, and the Justice Department kept vital information out of the trial.

For more information on this story from WorldNetDaily.com:

Border Patrol agents
sentenced to prison
11-12 years for shooting drug-smuggling
suspect in buttocks as he fled across frontier

Two U.S. Border Patrol agents were sentenced to prison terms of 11 years and 12 years for shooting a drug-smuggling suspect in the buttocks as he fled across the U.S.-Mexico border.

U.S. District Court Judge Kathleen Cardone in El Paso, Texas, sentenced Jose Alonso Compean to 12 years in prison and Ignacio Ramos to 11 years and one day despite a plea by their attorney for a new trial after three jurors said they were coerced into voting guilty in the case, the Washington Times reported.

As WorldNetDaily reported, a federal jury convicted Compean, 28, and Ramos, 37, in March after a two-week trial on charges of causing serious bodily injury, assault with a deadly weapon, discharge of a firearm in relation to a crime of violence and a civil rights violation.

Ramos is an eight-year veteran of the U.S. Naval Reserve and a former nominee for Border Patrol Agent of the Year.

On Feb. 17, he responded to a request for back up from Compean, who noticed a suspicious van near the levee road along the Rio Grande River near the Texas town of Fabens, about 40 miles east of El Paso.

Ramos, who headed toward Fabens hoping to cut off the van, soon joined a third agent already in pursuit.

Behind the wheel of the van was an illegal alien, Osbaldo Aldrete-Davila of Mexico. Unknown to the growing number of Border Patrol agents converging on Fabens, Aldrete-Davila''s van was carrying 800 pounds of marijuana.

Unable to outrun Ramos and the third agent, Aldrete-Davila stopped the van on the levee, jumped out and started running toward the river. When he reached the other side of the levee, he was met by Compean who had anticipated the smuggler''s attempt to get back to Mexico.

"We both yelled out for him to stop, but he wouldn''t stop, and he just kept running," Ramos told California''s Inland Valley Daily Bulletin. Aldrete-Davila crossed a canal.

"At some point during the time where I''m crossing the canal, I hear shots being fired," Ramos said. "Later, I see Compean on the ground, but I keep running after the smuggler."

At that point, Ramos said, Aldrete-Davila turned toward him, pointing what looked like a gun.

"I shot," Ramos said. "But I didn''t think he was hit, because he kept running into the brush and then disappeared into it. Later, we all watched as he jumped into a van waiting for him. He seemed fine. It didn''t look like he had been hit at all."

The commotion and multiple calls for back up had brought seven other agents – including two supervisors – to the crossing by this time. Compean picked up his shell casings, but Ramos did not. He also did not follow agency procedure and report that he had fired his weapon.

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http://worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=52545

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The report done by the House Homeland Security Committee''s Subcommittee on Investigations, chaired by Rep. Michael McCaul of Texas, is out entitled A Line in the Sand: Confronting the Threat at the Southwest Border.

You can find a copy of this BLISTERING report here:

http://www.house.gov/mccaul/pdf/Investigaions-Border-Report.pdf

This thing reads like a Minuteman Civil Defense Corps press release. Glad to know that Congress is finally acknowledging what we''ve been telling them over and over and over.

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