Illegal Alien Criminal Murders Four in California

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TRIAL SET IN OUR LAWSUIT CHALLENGING MARYLAND’S GERRYMANDERING ABUSE

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A Maryland court has set a trial date for our lawsuit against the
State of Maryland challenging the state’s 2021 Congressional
redistricting plan. In moving forward with the case, the court denied
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the motion of the State of Maryland and its election officials to
dismiss our suit. The trial is scheduled for March 15-18, 2022.

We filed the lawsuit
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on behalf
of 12 registered Maryland voters who object to Maryland’s 2021
congressional redistricting plan on the grounds that it is a partisan
gerrymander that diminishes their rights to participate in free and
fair elections for the U.S. Congress on an equal basis with other
Maryland voters, in violation of the Maryland Constitution (_Parrott
et al. v Lamone et al._
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(No. C-02-CV-21-001773)).

The trial will also include plaintiffs from a separate lawsuit against
the Maryland gerrymander. We are being assisted by Gardner M. Duvall
of Whiteford Taylor Preston in Baltimore, and by William J.
Holtzinger, Esq., of Frederick, Maryland.

Our lawsuit
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details:

Maryland’s recent history of partisan gerrymandering is no secret.
[its 2011] congressional district map … remains one of the most
notorious partisan gerrymanders in U.S. history. A federal district
judge openly doubted that it could provide “fair and effective
representation for all citizens.” Another called it “absurd”
to suggest ‘that there is a community of interest” in a district
described as a “Rorschach-like eyesore.” [A federal appeals court]
famously described the same district as “a broken-winged
pterodactyl, lying prostrate across the center of the state.”
The lawsuit relates that a bipartisan commission recommended a map
to Maryland Governor Larry Hogan on November 5th that he approved, but
the legislature passed a different proposal in a straight party-line
vote. On December 9, 2021, Hogan vetoed this proposal, and, the same
day, the state legislature overrode his veto on another party-line
vote.

Outside experts agree that the plan is flawed, with the nonpartisan
Princeton Gerrymandering Project giving it a grade of “F” for
fairness and geographic compactness. In 2020, Republicans accounted
for approximately 35% of Maryland’s congressional votes, but
they’re unlikely to win even a single seat under this plan. This
outcome wouldn’t be possible without political gerrymandering.

Some background: In June 2015, we filed a lawsuit
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in federal court challenging the constitutionality of Maryland’s
gerrymandered congressional district map. We filed on behalf of voters
in each of Maryland’s congressional districts—including Maryland
Delegate Neil Parrott, who is also the lead plaintiff in this new
state-court lawsuit. In December 2016, we filed a brief in the U.S.
Supreme Court in response to Maryland’s attempt to retain the
gerrymandered voter districting plan.

This historic challenge and trial are necessary because Democrats in
the legislature abused power in setting up Maryland’s gerrymandered
congressional maps. This trial is about protecting the rights of all
voters and citizens. Politicians shouldn’t get to pick their voters.

ILLEGAL IMMIGRANT MURDERS FOUR IN COUNTY OF SHERIFF SUED FOR REPORTING
ALIEN CRIMINALS

The horrors of California’s coddling of illegal immigrant criminals
continue to mount. Our _Corruption Chronicles_ blog has the details
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of the
latest tragedy, this one involving three murdered children.

Months after a California sheriff got sued
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for reporting undocumented criminals to federal authorities, an
illegal immigrant with a criminal history murdered four people in the
veteran law enforcement official’s jurisdiction just days after
being released from jail. The brutal crimes occurred in Sacramento,
California, where Sheriff Scott Jones was recently sued by a leftist
civil rights group for transferring illegal alien offenders to
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) for removal rather than
release them back into the community under state sanctuary laws known
as the TRUTH Act
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and the California Values Act
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The first one, which went into effect in 2017, requires that local
police give criminals in the U.S. illegally a written notice of their
transfer to ICE. The second, which was enacted a year later, forbids
all California law enforcement agencies from using funds or employees
to “investigate, interrogate, detain or arrest persons for
immigration enforcement purposes.” The measure is also known as SB
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The Golden State’s outrageous sanctuary laws protected 39-year-old
Mexican national David Mora-Rojas from deportation after at least two
encounters with the law. In April 2021, the mother of his three
children obtained a restraining order
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against him after a domestic violence incident, according to the
Sacramento County Sheriff’s Office, which confirms that the order
specifically states Mora-Rojas cannot own or possess firearms or
ammunition. On February 23, 2022, Mora-Rojas was arrested in Merced
County about 115 miles south of Sacramento for driving under the
influence, assaulting a police officer, and assaulting medical staff.
ICE served a detainer on the jail, but state sanctuary laws prohibited
Merced officials from holding Mora-Rojas or communicating with ICE
about his release, so the illegal immigrant walked out of jail on a
$15,000 bond.

Five days later Mora-Rojas shot his three daughters and a
court-ordered chaperone
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at a
Sacramento church before shooting himself. The girls were nine, 10 and
13 years old. Mora-Rojas used an Armalite Rifle (AR) style gun with no
serial number or manufacturer makings, according to the Sacramento
Sheriff’s Office, which describes it as a Privately Made Firearm
(PMF). The rifle had an extended 30-round magazine inserted and 17
casings were found at the scene. The horrific crimes occurred on
February 28 at around 5 p.m. at the Church in Sacramento which is
located in a residential neighborhood. The church issued a statement
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expressing shock and sadness,
“resulting in the deaths of five of our members,” which seems to
include the shooter. One Sacramento news report says court documents
paint a disturbing picture
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of verbal and physical abuse inflicted by Mora-Rojas on the mother of
his three kids, yet he was allowed to remain in the country illegally.


In the tragedy’s aftermath, Sheriff Jones is publicly expressing
outrage. The 33-year law enforcement veteran is currently serving his
third term as the top cop in the central California county of around
1.6 million that includes the state’s capitol. In a social media
post
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Jones writes that “there is only ONE thing that allowed this
horrific tragedy to occur with certainty: the deplorable state of our
national immigration policies, and California’s Sanctuary State
Laws.” Jones warns that liberals and activists will try to spin the
narrative, dredge up sympathy for the monster that killed the victims
and focus on the horrors of ghost guns. “When I was invited to the
White House by President Trump in 2018 to discuss immigration failures
in our country, I described California’s Sanctuary State law as
creating ‘spectacular failures’ all over this state,” Jones
writes. “I was criticized in The [Sacramento] Bee and elsewhere for
that statement, but I defy them now to color this tragic event any
other way.”

In November Jones was sued by the American Civil Liberties Union
(ACLU) for transferring illegal immigrants convicted of state crimes
to federal authorities. The group claims
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that collaborating with the feds—rather than releasing illegal alien
offenders back into the community—compounds racial disparities in
the policing, immigration, and criminal justice systems, in which
black and Latinx communities are disproportionately targeted for
arrest, detention, and deportation. In the federal complaint
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the ACLU accuses Jones and his agency of violating California
sanctuary laws by reporting illegal immigrants jailed for committing
local crimes to ICE upon completing their sentence. The offenders are
eligible to return to their home and communities in the U.S. but
instead are enduring a “cruel double punishment,” according to the
ACLU attorney who filed the lawsuit on behalf of the illegal aliens.
The Sacramento County Sheriff’s “anti-immigrant agenda” harms
communities, the ACLU lawyer asserts. The group has failed to issue a
statement or comment on the Mora-Rojas murders, which could have been
prevented if he were deported after his first encounter with local law
enforcement.

NEW YORK CITY’S WAR ON ELECTION FAIRNESS

New York City is a mess. Crime is rampant. Schools are failing.
Residents are bailing out by the thousands. And the city’s officials
continue their march into madness by encouraging anarchy in the
electoral process. In our _Investigative Bulletin_ Chief Investigative
Reporter Micah Morrison outlines
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the
problem.

Gotham’s new mayor is getting kudos for standing up to radicals on
guns and crime and schools, but when it comes to election integrity
the Left is taking him to the cleaners. Unchecked, it’s an electoral
death sentence for Mayor Eric Adams and fair elections in New York
City.

The war on election fairness is being waged on two fronts — one in
broad daylight, and the other from the shadows. In both cases, the
vehicle for the radical takeover of New York is the city’s failed
Board of Elections (BOE).

In the daylight war, Mr. Adams in January allowed radical City Council
legislation granting 800,000 noncitizens the right to vote in local
elections to pass into law. Any noncitizen who is legally documented
and a resident for 30 days — 30 days! — can vote in contests for
mayor, City Council, comptroller, public advocate and borough
presidents. The Board of Elections is tasked with managing the
hundreds of thousands of new noncitizen voters.

In the shadow war, Mr. Adams is mute while possibly thousands of
voters remain illegally on voter rolls. Under federal law, the
National Voter Registration Act, the states must make “a reasonable
effort” to remove from voting rolls “the names of ineligible
voters” who have been disqualified from voting due to death or
failure to provide notification of change of residence. The Board is
responsible for keeping voter rolls honest.

Dirty voter rolls matter. Leaving the names of inactive voters on
registration rolls creates opportunities for fraud, such as dead
people voting or double voting. Sometimes it only takes a few votes to
swing an election. The 2019 election for Queens district attorney, for
example, was won by 60 votes.

In November, Judicial Watch sent letters to BOE officials in all five
boroughs warning of apparent serious violations of the voter
registration act. The law requires states to remove registrations of
voters who fail to respond to an address confirmation request and then
fail to vote in two consecutive elections.

In New York City, the numbers of potential violators ignored by the
Board of Elections are staggering. Mining statutory reporting data,
Judicial Watch found that in Manhattan, with 1.2 million registered
voters, state authorities removed a grand total of two ineligible
voters from voting rolls.

In Brooklyn, with 1.7 million registered voters, the number removed:
zero.

In Queens, with 1.3 million registered voters, the number removed:
zero.

In Staten Island, with 344,000 voters: zero.

In the Bronx, with 867,000 voters: One ineligible voter was removed.

“About 10% of Americans move every year,” notes Robert Popper,
Judicial Watch’s director of voting integrity efforts. “Those
counties should generate hundreds of thousands of canceled
registrations. There is simply no way to comply with federal law while
removing so few outdated registrations under its key provision.”

BOE’s response? A stonewall of silence on dirty voter rolls. And a
punt on noncitizen voting: It sent a letter to Albany asking for a
“review” of the new law.

The BOE has a long history of incompetence and cronyism, most recently
badly bungling the initial ranked-choice voting rollout in last
year’s municipal elections. Under the new law, it likely would have
to create a dual-ballot system for election day — one ballot for
state and federal races for citizens, and one for municipal races that
would include noncitizen voters.

Dual ballots are an invitation to corruption. So is the 30-day
residency requirement of the new law. Both open the door to all sorts
of unscrupulous operatives who manipulate ballots and voters.

Legal challenges are mounting. A group of prominent New York
Republicans has filed a lawsuit against Mr. Adams, the Board of
Elections, and the City Council, seeking to overturn the noncitizen
voting law as unconstitutional.

And Judicial Watch has warned
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that city
officials–well as other government entities around the
country–will face court action if they remain out of compliance with
the voter registration act.

“New York City’s Board of Elections is a national disgrace,”
says Judicial Watch President Tom Fitton. “The idea that it can
manage an entirely new list of noncitizen voters when it can’t even
keep ineligible voters of its current list under federal law, is
absurd.”
Until next week...





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