Posted on 10/16/2024 6:55:08 AM PDT by george76
Gallego presses for stay of lower court ruling that would unseal his divorce records...
Arizona Senate candidate Ruben Gallego on Tuesday sought the intervention of the state’s Supreme Court to prevent the unsealing of his divorce records.
Lawyers for Gallego filed a motion to stay an appellate court decision that ordered the unsealing of the documents, arguing that "sensitive details about the Gallegos’ and their minor child’s life stand to be published if Free Beacon succeeds" and that the press and the public lose "nothing" by further delay, including a delay beyond the "upcoming general election."
Tuesday’s filing marks a last-bid effort by Gallego to keep his divorce records, which are treated as public documents for average Arizona citizens, under wraps.
The Arizona Supreme Court does not have to rule, and if it takes no action, the records become public. Should it deny the motion, the records also become public. The court could also order a brief delay to consider whether two courts got it wrong and whether the extraordinary privilege of keeping public records secret for politicians is one of the few cases the it chooses to hear each year.
In an Oct. 15 decision, the Arizona Court of Appeals ruled in favor of the Free Beacon and upheld a Superior Court decision that ordered the partial unsealing of the documents.
"Upon review, we hold the court properly exercised its discretion by narrowly tailoring what is to be withheld from public view for those legitimate purposes," the Court of Appeals wrote in its decision.
Gallego, who is facing off against Republican Kari Lake for Arizona’s open Senate seat, filed for divorce in late 2016 when his wife, Kate Gallego, was on the verge of giving birth to their son. He did so in Yavapai County, more than 100 miles away from where the couple lived at the time, though Arizona law stipulates that citizens must file in the county in which they reside. He then succeeded in convincing a judge to seal the file, including its existence on the docket.
Three years after filing for divorce, and two years after the divorce was finalized, Gallego tied the knot with his second wife, lobbyist Sydney Barron, in a private ceremony in 2019. Months later, he posted pictures that purported to show his proposal to her and announced their engagement, though the two were already married. "She said yes!! Thank you Sydney for being my forever!" Gallego wrote of his wife. The couple had a public wedding in 2021.
So adamant. I wonder what he doesn’t want us to see.
So, did he find out the kid wasn’t his? That may explain the divorce but his timing sucks.
All said I bet he is just a dirt bag, but he is a dimocrap so all is well.
Arizona Democrat - Senate candidate Ruben Gallego, whose father is a convicted Mexican drug trafficker, continues to come under fire over his ties to the cartels as newly discovered arrest records and details about his father come to surface.
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/4270099/posts
It was sure easy to get divorce records unsealed when a Republican was running against Obama in the senate race in Illinois. Ryan would have won that race if the records had not been made public.
Tuesday’s filing marks a last-bid effort by Gallego to keep his divorce records, which are treated as public documents for average Arizona citizens, under wraps.
True
Both Ryan and his ex-Wife wanted to keep their court divorce records sealed (the divorce was already concluded 6 years before), but of course a liberal judge in Los Angeles, where the case was filed, naturally thought the "public's right to know outweighed private interests" and released the divorce records, which contained some salacious allegations
That led Ryan to drop out from the race, and Obama to rise to the US Senate.
Politicians are such scum, they want all the perks and treatment as royalty. We need to start treating them as what they are, public SERVANTS.
With the Ryan divorce in Illinois back some years ago (Jeri Ryan, actress, Jack Ryan, (R) in Illinois) being public, I would think this is normal now.
True - just tell the court that Gallego is planning to switch parties to the GOP, if elected... ;)
I have read that he has spent an enormous (to me) amount of money trying to keep this sealed. Why and who’s paying the alleged million dollars spent on it?
Transparency is a one way party street, ask barry obama
The rule here should be consistency, not one rule for democrats and another for Republicans? But are divorce records in Arizona generally open to the public? The fact that a divorce was granted would be public, but the intimate details of the marriage and private agreements between the parties about joint assets and liabilities might well be sealed, or at least sealable upon the mutual request of the parties.
I don’t know my way around family law, but I have the sense that a lot of things are treated as confidential, especially when children are involved.
My point of reference here goes back to Obama’s campaign for the Senate. He would probably not have won the primary but for the unsealing of sealed divorce records that embarrassed the democrat frontrunner. And he would probably not have won the general election except for the unsealing of the records of a contested child custody case involving his Republican opponent — despite both parties attempting to maintain confidentiality in court. The Chicago Tribune, presumably doing the dirty work for the Obama campaign, persuaded the courts that “the public has a right to know.”
This raised a particular stink in Obama’s case because his own records on myriad subjects were sealed as tightly as possible — and despite sustained efforts by many investigators to ferret out Obama’s real story, the courts diligently sustained his stonewalling.
Funny how these things seem to work mostly in one direction. Which way does the Arizona Supreme Court lean? Is it politicized?
Political court cases in our fake “judicial system” only break one way.
Meanwhile, Jack Ryan has yet to comment.
As I recall, Barak 0bama had Jack Ryan’s divorce papers unsealed, winning his race to be Illinois’ Senator.
I am all for Deep-Sixing a Democrat’s race, the same way.
This is how Obama won his Senate seat.
Interesting the Gallegos chose Yavapai County, whose judges tend to be more conservative. More than 100 miles from where they lived. Possible judge shopping?
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