There are 15 federal judges in the District of Arizona. Cases are assigned randomly in federal court. So, had a lawsuit been filed, there was only a 1-in-15 chance that it would have been heard by Roll.
Randomly assigned, like Clinton’s “Magnificent Seven” randomly assigned cases - at a private monthly meeting where they all chose who would get which cases to cover Clinton’s behind?
One of those “Magnificent Seven” was Judge Robertson, who tried to hit Hemenway with a penalty for filing a frivolous lawsuit, when everybody knew that the case had already been tried through Twitter.
Judge Roll was the one judge Holder had to worry about. Roll had angered both conservatives and liberals with his rulings; he was not owned by either side. His arguments relied on the law and Constitution, not political pressure. Even when he had to have a bodyguard because of it, he was willing to make unpopular decisions. And as I understand it, he had ruled against Obama on the ability to confiscate money and put it in private accounts.
But of course, it was just an accident that Judge Roll was shot in the aorta and died within 7 seconds. He had just happened to stop by on his way walking home from mass, according to Sheriff Dupnik - even though the reason the FBI was able to be involved in the case was because Roll was carrying out pre-arranged discussion involving official business - pre-arranged because of a phone call he received before Saturday, alerting him that Giffords would be having this event. At least that’s what the FBI officer said in the official charges against Jared Loughner. So the FBI and Dupnik have contradictory statements, but of course that is just an accident too...
We know that because Jared Loughner, who was so concerned about the corrupt government spying on him and whose defense had to do with schizophrenia and how he just “snapped” because of the schizophrenia, still wrote out “I planned ahead” “Giffords” and “assassination” on an envelope with his signature, that he put in a safe in his parents’ house just in case somebody wondered who he really meant to kill...
But in all seriousness, the Judge Roll issue is (at this point) a side issue. The fact of the matter is that a violent attack took place and suddenly EVERYBODY was blaming the “vitriol” of conservatives rather than schizophrenia. And that provided the PERFECT excuse for law enforcement to claim Obama needed a new BC in order to be safe. Especially since - as Abercrombie told Evans - there was at that point no proof that Obama was born in Hawaii. According to Fukino’s HDOH, there was a BC amended in late 2006 - vital recordS (plural) that were half written and half typed, and according to the OIP, affidavits and/or other evidence filed in support of the claims made (IOW this was a late, altered BC - legally non-valid). And Abercrombie said that was going to be a legal problem because of the eligibility bills pending in places like Arizona. Abercrombie acknowledged that they had a problem there, with the sketchy documentation for Obama.