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February court date set for
Bundy standoff case in Nevada
By KEN RITTER
Associated Press
LAS VEGAS — A federal
magistrate judge in Las
Vegas set a Feb. 6 trial date
for rancher Cliven Bundy
and 18 other defendants in
an armed confrontation with
government oficers two
years ago.
In a written order iled
Tuesday, U.S. Magistrate
Judge Peggy Leen declared
the case “complex” for
tracking purposes, and
agreed that it will take time to
prepare for a trial involving
19 defendants, more than 30
government witnesses and an
exceptionally large amount
of evidence.
Last week, she canceled a
May 2 trial date as unrealistic.
Leen’s order came after
a scheduling hearing last
Friday in Las Vegas that put
all 19 defendants and their
lawyers in one courtroom for
the irst time. It could mean
many months in jail ahead of
trial for each man, although
Bundy attorney: Feds turned down
proposed plea deal
PORTLAND (AP) — Lawyers for Ammon
Bundy say the leader of the Oregon wildlife refuge
occupation offered after his arrest to plead guilty if
charges against other defendants were dismissed, but
the deal was rejected.
The assertion is made in a pre-trial motion iled in
federal court on Wednesday.
Bundy was arrested by FBI agents and Oregon
state troopers on Jan. 26. More than two dozen people
have been arrested for the occupation of the Malheur
National Wildlife Refuge that began Jan. 2 and ended
with surrender of the last four on Feb. 11.
Bundy attorney Mike Arnold says his client offered on
Jan. 29 to plead guilty to a federal conspiracy charge if
charges against the others were dropped, and the proposal
was rejected a day before the last occupiers gave up.
several are challenging and
appealing detention orders.
The conspiracy, obstruc-
tion, weapon, threats and
assault charges could get
each the equivalent of life in
prison for the tense gunpoint
standoff in April 2014 near
Bundy’s ranch outside
Bunkerville, about 80 miles
northeast of Las Vegas.
Leen noted that seven
defendants, including Bundy
sons Ammon Bundy and
Ryan Bundy, face trial Sept.
7 in federal court in Portland,
Oregon. The seven are
among 26 people accused of
taking part in a 41-day armed
occupation of a U.S. wildlife
refuge this year.
The Bundy brothers have
been returned in custody
to Oregon, where Ammon
Bundy’s attorneys have
iled documents contesting
the authority of the federal
government to prosecute him
for the takeover the Malheur
National Wildlife Refuge.
In an argument echoed
by states’ rights advocates,
he maintains that the federal
government largely lost
the right to own land inside
Oregon once statehood was
achieved.
His father argues in
Nevada that the federal
government doesn’t have
jurisdiction over the public
land surrounding the Bundy
homestead, where family
cattle have grazed for
decades.
The federal Bureau of
Land Management moved to
round up cows on the ranch,
obtaining court orders with
arguments that Bundy racked
up more than $1 million in
unpaid grazing fees and ines.
BRIEFLY
Former speaker
Hastert sentenced
to more than year
in prison
CHICAGO (AP)
— Dennis Hastert, the
Republican who for eight
years presided over the
House and was second
in the line of succession
to the presidency, was
sentenced Wednesday to
more than a year in prison
in the hush-money case that
revealed accusations he
sexually abused teenagers
while coaching high school
wrestling.
The case makes the
former speaker one of the
highest-ranking American
politicians ever sentenced
to prison. The visibly
angry judge repeatedly
rebuked the 74-year-old
before issuing the 15-month
sentence, telling him that
his abuse devastated the
lives of victims and would
probably make it harder
than ever for parents to
trust other adults with their
children.
“If Denny Hastert could
do it, anyone could do it,’”
U.S. District Judge Thomas
M. Durkin said. “Nothing
is more stunning than to
have the words ‘serial child
molester’ and ‘speaker of
the House’ in the same
sentence.”
As he did for much of
the hearing, Hastert sat
unmoving in a wheelchair,
peering over the top of his
eyeglasses, his hands folded
before him.
Earlier this month,
prosecutors went into
graphic detail about the
sex-abuse allegations, even
describing how Hastert
would sit in a recliner in the
locker room with a direct
view of the showers. The
victims, prosecutors said,
were boys between 14 and
17. Hastert was in his 20s
and 30s.
When the judge asked if
Hastert wanted to make a
statement, Hastert pushed
himself up, grabbed a
walker and moved slowly to
a podium.
“I am deeply ashamed to
be standing here,” he said,
reading from a statement.
“I know why I am here ...
I mistreated some of the
athletes that I coached.”
He added: “They
looked up to me, and I took
advantage of them.”
when we go to Philadelphia
in July we’re going to have
the votes to put together
the strongest progressive
agenda that any political
party has ever seen.”
Yet the implication
of Tuesday’s losses was
evident Wednesday, when
the campaign said it was
laying off “hundreds” of
ield staffers and other aides
to focus on winning the
California primary on June
7. The campaign will have
gone from a staff of more
than 1,000 in January to
about 325-350, spokesman
Michael Briggs said.
Sanders’ bid
reaches turning
point after
Northeast losses
Trump struggles
to explain
‘America irst’
foreign policy
WASHINGTON (AP) —
Bernie Sanders’ movement
for a political revolution is
reaching a crossroads even
as he promises to campaign
against Hillary Clinton
through the June primaries
and into the Philadelphia
convention.
The Vermont senator
said in an interview with
The Associated Press
after losses to Clinton in
Tuesday’s primaries in
Pennsylvania, Maryland,
Delaware and Connecticut
that he would now seek
as many delegates as
possible to “ight for a
progressive party platform,”
acknowledging that he had
only a “very narrow path”
to the nomination.
Sanders said at a rally
at Purdue University in
Indiana on Wednesday that
he was “in this campaign
to win and become the
Democratic nominee,”
adding, “If we do not win,
we intend to win every
delegate that we can so that
WASHINGTON (AP)
— Donald Trump strained
to lay out a clear vision of
his “America irst” foreign
policy on Wednesday,
vowing to substitute hard-
headed realism for what he
called a post-Cold War era
replete with U.S. national
security failures.
Yet the Republican
presidential front-runner
outlined no strategy
for how he’d make the
United States at the same
time a “consistent” and
“unpredictable” force in
the world. And he didn’t
appear to allay the concerns
of U.S. and international
critics — Republicans at
home as well as Democrats
— who see him as unit
for the responsibilities of
commander in chief.
“’America irst’
will be the major and
overriding theme of my
administration,” Trump
declared, echoing motifs
from his campaign that is
now close to sealing the
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Delivering his lines in
a more sober, restrained
manner than usual to cast
himself as presidential
material, the billionaire
businessman and reality
TV star toned down or
omitted several of his
most explosive — and
oft-repeated — barbs.
He made no reference to
forcing Mexico to pay for
a wall across the nation’s
Southern border. He also
didn’t revisit the idea of
allowing Japan, South
Korea, Saudi Arabia or any
other country to develop
nuclear weapons for
self-defense purposes.
“My foreign policy will
always put the interests of
the American people and
American security above all
else,” he said.
“It has to be irst. Has
to be. That will be the
foundation of every single
decision that I will make.”
AP Photo/Michael Conroy
Republican presidential candidate Sen. Ted Cruz joined
by former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina waves
during a rally in Indianapolis on Wednesday.
Ted Cruz taps Carly Fiorina
to serve as running mate
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) —
In need of momentum after a
ive-state shutout, Republican
presidential candidate Ted
Cruz on Wednesday tapped
former technology executive
Carly Fiorina — a woman he
said has repeatedly “shattered
glass ceilings” — to serve as
his running mate.
The
Texas
senator
announced his pick for vice
president nearly three months
before his party’s national
convention, an unusual move
for an underdog candidate that
relects the increasing urgency
for the iery conservative to
reverse his downward trajec-
tory.
Cruz praised Fiorina’s
path from secretary to CEO
and her past willingness to
challenge GOP front-runner
Donald Trump.
“Carly isn’t intimated by
bullies,” he declared at an
Indianapolis rally, adding,
“Over and over again, Carly
has shattered glass ceilings.”
The 61-year-old Fiorina,
a former chief executive of
Hewlett-Packard, has been
a prominent Cruz ally since
shortly after abandoning her
own presidential bid earlier
in the year. She was the only
woman in the Republican
Party’s crowded 2016 ield.
“This is the ight of our
time. And I believe Ted Cruz
is the man to lead that ight,”
Fiorina said at the Wednesday
announcement. “And I am
prepared to stand by his side
and give this everything I
have, to restore the soul of our
party, to defeat Donald Trump,
to defeat Hillary Clinton, and
to take our country back.”
Fiorina’s selection marked
another extraordinary devel-
opment in the 2016 Repub-
lican campaign, particularly
for a candidate who is far
from becoming his party’s
presumptive nominee. Cruz
was soundly defeated by GOP
front-runner Donald Trump
in all ive primaries contests
on Tuesday, and he’s been
mathematically eliminated
from winning the nomination
before his party’s national
convention in July.
Some Cruz allies praised
Fiorina’s
selection,
but
privately questioned if it
would change the trajectory
of the race. Trump has won
77 percent of the delegates
he needs to claim the nomi-
nation, and a win next week
in Indiana will keep him on a
irm path to do so.
Cruz
appeared
with
Fiorina in Indiana’s capital
city, having staked his candi-
dacy on a win in the state’s
primary contest next Tuesday.
Fiorina’s California ties could
also prove valuable in that
state’s high-stakes primary on
June 7.
“Carly has incredible
appeal to so many people,
especially in California,” said
Doug De Groote, a fundraiser
for Cruz based near Los
Angeles. “She can really help
him here.”
Her irst major foray into
politics was in 2010, when
she ran for Senate in Cali-
fornia and lost to incumbent
Sen. Barbara Boxer by 10
percentage points. She has
never held elected ofice.
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