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Activist Seattle judge releases 3 minors charged with bringing automatic weapons to parade

An activist judge has released three teens to home monitoring after they were arrested for bringing loaded guns, modified to be fully automatic, to a crowded Seattle parade. Parade-goers heard gunshots and began running.

Seattle Police arrested three armed male juveniles on July 21 at a parade in the Chinatown-International District after they were seen brandishing firearms near 7th Ave South and South Weller Street during the parade. A handgun was recovered from each of the teens and two of the guns were reported stolen.

Court records obtained by The Ari Hoffman Show on Talk Radio 570 KVI revealed that the family of a murdered 16-year-old killed in Auburn last month was marching in the parade in honor of their son when they saw the three suspects, who they believe are connected to the murder, feared for their safety and alerted police.

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Judge Rules Rancher George Alan Kelly Who Allegedly Killed Illegal Immigrant on His Property Can’t be Retried for Murder

Arizona rancher George Alan Kelly, 75, will not face a retrial for the alleged killing of Gabriel Cuen-Buitimea, a Mexican national found dead on the elder’s property in January 2023. 

The New York Post reported that Santa Cruz County Superior Court Judge Thomas Fink made the decisive ruling on Tuesday, denying the prosecution’s request to keep the case open.

Kelly’s case sparked an intense debate over border security and property rights.

It initially ended in a mistrial in April when jurors failed to reach a verdict, Resist the Mainstream previously reported.

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Judge Presiding Over Donald Trump Fulton County RICO Ignored Evidence That Georgia Secretary of State Lied About an ‘Audit’ Following 2020 Election

President Donald Trump is currently facing 13 charges in the State of Georgia in a racketeering (RICO) case that also initially involved 18 other ‘co-conspirators,’ including attorneys Rudy Giuliani, Mark Meadows, Jeff Clark, John Eastman, Sidney Powell and Jenna Ellis.

The case has not been going as planned for the Fulton County District Attorney Fani Willis, however, as she has been embroiled in an alleged corruption scheme to pay her then-lover just under a million dollars to prosecute the case and took lavish vacations with him.  Willis claims she paid him back for those trips “in cash.”

Nathan Wade, the prosecutor and Willis’s then-lover, had never tried a RICO case previously.  He reportedly had never even tried a felony case before.  But he was tasked with, for the first time in history, prosecuting a former US President and front-runner for the Republican nomination in the 2024 election.

This case has already revealed several major discrepancies with the 2020 election, including an admission from Fulton County attorneys that the BlueCrest sorter machines the county had purchased to automate signature verification were not utilized at all.  Further, former Fulton County Board of Registration and Elections member Mark Wingate testified under oath during Jeff Clark’s disbarment hearing that he was told by Fulton County they did no signature verification at all.  He also testified that he was denied any chain of custody documentation to validate the election before certifying.  He voted “no” on certification.

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Biden’s RADICAL judicial nominee just busted lying under oath—Sen. Kennedy brought damning receipts…

Sometimes, you witness a takedown so epic that it leaves everyone watching in utter amazement. That’s exactly what happened to Joe Biden’s radical left-wing judicial nominee, Karla Campbell. She’s a harebrained left-wing attorney from Nashville and Biden’s Marxist pick for the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, and her judicial dreams might have just imploded. After being caught lying under oath, her hopes of becoming the left’s next activist judge may be over.

The controversy swirls around a radical left-wing extremist hate group known as “Workers’ Dignity,” which is known for advocating the abolition of all military and police forces. It turns out that Ms. Campbell had been a legal advisor for this unhinged group. When Senator Chuck Grassley questioned her, she flat-out lied, denying any involvement. Not the wisest move, because up next was Senator John Kennedy, armed with irrefutable evidence proving her very close and cozy ties to the group. The look on her face was absolutely priceless.

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Georgia Judge Accused of Assaulting Cop at Club Claims She Was ‘Set Up’

A Georgia judge is claiming that her arrest at an Atlanta-area nightclub was a “setup” after she was caught on police body camera striking an officer in an altercation where she says she was only trying to help a woman who was being attacked.

Douglas County Probate Judge Christina Peterson was arrested at the Red Martini Restaurant and Lounge in Buckhead shortly after 3:00 a.m. Thursday when police responded to a fight “between two separate parties,” the Atlanta Journal-Constitution reported. 

While Peterson was “not involved in the initial altercation,” according to the arresting officer, he said he was “approached and struck with a closed fist by the accused, Christina Peterson.”

“Ms. Peterson then forcibly pushed the officer in the chest and kept swiping his hands away as he attempted to assist the female being escorted out,” the Atlanta Police Department said in a press release.  

“Ms. Peterson pushed the officer in the chest again and that is when she was subsequently placed into custody.”

The 38-year-old judge has since been charged with battery and felony obstruction, with body cam footage released by Atlanta Police Department (APD) showing her striking the cop and screaming “let her fucking go” as he attempts to break up the dispute.

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Journalist threatened with jail over publishing trans shooter Audrey Hale’s deranged journal writings

A journalist from the Tennessee Star is being summoned to appear in court and faces jail time for publishing journal writings of transgender shooter Audrey Hale, sparking freedom of the press concerns.

The article revealed that Hale, who shot and killed six people at the Covenant Elementary school in March 2023, wrote about her ‘imaginary penis’ and how she would ‘kill’ to get puberty blockers weeks before her horrific act.

For more than a year, Nashville Chancellor I’Ashea Myles has been presiding over a public records case wherein the plaintiffs are suing to get the right to release documents related to the shooting. Families of the victims are on the exact opposite side, trying to bury the documents and keep them out of the public eye.

But since the case in ongoing, Myles is claiming that the Tennessee Star may have published ‘certain purported documents and information’ that should have remained under seal. 

At Myle’s request, Tennessee Star editor-in-chief Michael Patrick Leahy will appear in court Monday to explain why his news outlet didn’t violate the court order.

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Biden Judicial Nominee Said Child Predator Had ‘a Lot of Good in Him’

One of President Joe Biden’s judicial nominees suspended a child sex predator’s sentence and said the convict had “a lot of good in him” during a court hearing last year.

Maine Superior Court judge Julia Lipez, who is up for Senate confirmation after Biden appointed her to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit, suspended half of Michael T. Smith’s prison sentence in 2023. Smith, 45, was convicted at trial of sexually abusing two girls, aged four and nine.

The news comes as other Biden judicial nominees have come under fire for soft-on-crime records. This week, Senate Republicans balked at the nomination of Magistrate Judge Sarah Netburn, who in 2022 recommended the transfer of a male convicted child rapist to a women’s prison after the convict identified as transgender. Netburn told lawmakers that she was not sure how sex is determined because she has “never studied” biology.

During a March 2023 sentencing hearing, Lipez reduced Smith’s 12-year sentence to 6 years and praised him as a “good” person.

“People are complicated,” Lipez said during the hearing. “I have frankly been offered very little insight as to how or why this happened. What I can say is that this is a very tragic situation of a person who has a lot of good in him having done a very reprehensible thing to two young children.”

The sentence reduction came after Smith’s young victims told the judge about the years of suffering caused by the abuse, which left them traumatized with night terrors, appetite loss, and flashbacks, according to the Sun Journal.

The “stress of my predator being free was eating me alive,” one of the girl’s wrote to the judge, adding that she has undergone years of therapy and that the “pleasant memories of my childhood have been replaced with tragic, painful ones.”

The other victim said she has struggled with friendships and physical contact because of the abuse, the Sun Journal reported.

Lipez’s decision to suspend Smith’s sentence came after his family members and lawyer told the court that he was a kind and hard-working person, according to the paper.

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Judge Who Put Transgender Child Rapist in Women’s Prison Nominated to U.S. District Court by Joe Biden

A judge who put a transgender child rapist in a women’s prison has been nominated to the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York by Joe Biden.

Judge Sarah Netburn has served as a magistrate judge for 12 years.

The judge gained notoriety after moving William McClain, who now goes by “July Justine Shelby,” to a women’s prison against the recommendation of the Bureau of Prisons.

McClain served over two decades in prison for raping a 17-year-old girl and molesting a 9-year-old boy. He was arrested again in 2017 for distributing child pornography involving a young girl and an infant.

The Washington Times reports:

Under a Biden administration policy implemented in 2022, transgender women can be moved to a women’s facility on a case-by-case basis, based on “whether a placement would ensure the inmate’s health and safety, and whether the placement would present management or security problems.”

The policy directs that a transgender individual’s “own views with respect to his/her own safety must be given serious consideration.”

The prisoner claimed to be endangered in New York’s Otisville Correctional Institution, a federal medium-security men’s prison.

The Bureau of Prisons repeatedly denied the prisoner’s request to be transferred to a women’s prison, citing risks it would traumatize prisoners and possibly threaten their safety.

The judge, against all reasonable advice, decided to move the sexual predator to the Federal Medical Center, Carswell, which is a female prison in Texas.

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Texas AG Ken Paxton Takes Over Investigation Into Corrupt Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo’s $11 Million No-Bid Contract

The walls are finally closing in on corrupt Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo.

Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has joined the investigation into Lina Hidalgo’s $11 million no-bid contract.

Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg (D) transferred the case to Ken Paxton’s office so it didn’t ‘fall through the cracks’ when she leaves office next year.

KHOU 11 reported:

Lawyers from the Texas Attorney General’s Office will have six months to become familiar with a case involving three ex-staffers of Harris County Judge Lina Hidalgo accused of steering a contract toward a vendor. That timeline was set by Harris County Judge Hazel Jones.

Attorneys from the AG Ken Paxton’s office told Jones they need time to review the material in the case.

“We just got on the case, we need to catch up to speed,” one attorney said.

Hidalgo’s office is embroiled in a bid-rigging scandal.

Lina Hidalgo’s top three staffers were indicted in April 2022 after prosecutors expanded the investigation into an $11 million ‘vaccine outreach contract’ awarded to one of the judge’s political cronies.

While Hidalgo was threatening to jail and fine people for violating her Covid rules, she was secretly trying to award one of her political cronies, Felicity Pereyra, who founded Elevate Strategies, an $11 million ‘vaccine outreach’ contract.

Hidalgo ultimately panicked and canceled the $11 million vaccine contract after questions were raised that it was with a one-person firm with no experience.

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Aileen Cannon Responds to Claims She Did Not Disclose ‘Luxury’ Trips

Aileen Cannon, the judge overseeing Donald Trump‘s classified documents case, has said she declared two “luxury” resort trips to Montana that were mentioned in a National Public Radio investigation.

“Cannon, herself a Trump appointee, attended two seminars at a luxury resort in Montana, but the privately funded seminar disclosures for both events were not posted online until NPR began making inquiries,” NPR’s online investigation states.

“Clerk of court Angela Noble told NPR in an email that the absence of the disclosures was due to technical issues and that ‘Any omissions to the website are completely inadvertent,” it adds.

Cannon is overseeing the case, in which former president Donald Trump is accused of illegally retaining classified documents, hoarding them at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida and obstructing attempts by federal officials to retrieve them.

Trump, the presumptive Republican candidate in the 2024 presidential election, has pleaded not guilty to the charges against him. He has denied any wrongdoing in the case and has said the documents he retained were personal.

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