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 Blaze: U.S. Attorney General Pam Bondi said that one of the three illegal aliens involved in the arrest of a former New Mexico judge had images of a decapitated victim on his cell phone. Bondi offered the revelation as evidence that the illegal alien allegedly harbored by former Judge Jose "Joel" Cano was a member of the vicious Tren de Aragua gang from El Salvador. Cano resigned from his office after his residence was searched in February, and he was arrested on Friday. 'Not only that, this TDA member, and he had on a necklace that said "kill," something about death, he had tattoos all over him.' Democrats have objected to the arrest and accused the administration of abusing government powers, but Bondi appeared on Fox News in order to deny the allegations. Fox host Sandra Smith said the illegal alien was linked to the gang through clothing, tattoos, and text messages, before asking Bondi what charges the former judge and his wife faced. "Judge Cano,...

 National Review: New Mexico’s Democratic attorney general notified the governor, a fellow Democrat , on Tuesday that he will not defend her in litigation challenging her public health order temporarily banning firearms in certain counties and imposing other gun restrictions. The prohibition applies to Albuquerque and Bernalillo counties. “Though I recognize my statutory obligation as New Mexico’s chief legal officer to defend state officials when they are sued in their official capacity, my duty to uphold and defend the constitutional rights of every citizen takes precedence,” New Mexico attorney general Raúl Torrez wrote to fellow Democratic Governor Michelle Lujan Grisham in a letter . “Simply put, I do not believe that the Emergency Order will have any meaningful impact on public safety but, more importantly, I do not believe it passes constitutional muster.” ... Multiple plaintiffs — the National Association for Gun Rights, We the Patriots USA, residents of the affected counti...

  Amy Swearer @AmySwearer · Sep 8 This is completely unconstitutional. It's also just logically nuts. Concealed carry permit holders aren't the ones driving gun crime, and now you're telling actual criminals that they have free reign because their victims can't be armed. kob.com Open and concealed carry privileges suspended in Albuquerque for 30 days New Mexico Gov. Michelle Lujan Grisham says she is suspending open and concealed carry privileges in Albuquerque for the next 30 days. 234 797 2,940 109.6K Does the governor actually think that criminals are going to follow her ridiculous order?

 Just the News: Biden administration officials were forced to temporarily postpone and relocate a weekend event to celebrate a ban on New Mexico fossil fuel development, after Native Americans blocked an access road and told officials to "go home" and stop "trespassing." Tweet URL Navajo Nation group shut down the entrance of Chaco Culture National Historical Park on Sunday to prevent Interior Secretary Deb Haaland from leading the event celebrating a newly-enacted, 20-year ban on oil leasing, covering hundreds of square miles of New Mexico land. The event was moved to a nearby location where Haaland said what had transpired was "less than ideal." The ban – implemented June 2 – ends natural gas leasing within 10 miles of Chaco Canyon's World Heritage site, a move landowners were adamantly against, arguing that doing so negatively impacts them and surrounding low-income communities who benefit from the leasing. According to the Associated Press, the adm...

 Daily Wire: Biden To Stump For Embattled New Mexico Governor As Poll Shows Her Trailing Republican Challenger ... ... Grisham is struggling from the fallout over her COVID policies; as well as controversy from 2021 in which she allegedly grabbed a gay male staffer’s genitals, then reached a $150,000 settlement with the staffer to quash claims of sexual harassment. Ronchetti reacted to the news of Biden’s appearance on Twitter . “I look forward to Pres. @JoeBiden coming to New Mexico to campaign for @Michelle4NM,” Ronchetti said. “Biden-MLG policies have led to higher gas prices, open borders, and drugs in our neighborhoods. New Mexicans know how out of touch Joe Biden and MLG are with kitchen table issues.” ... That the New Mexico race is competitive at this point tells you something about how Democrats have fallen. 

 Legal Insurrection: Last week, a federal judge in Louisiana  ordered the resumptio n of oil and gas leases for the Gulf of Mexico and Alaska that the Biden administration blocked. U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty’s ruling came in a lawsuit filed in March by Louisiana’s Republican attorney general, Jeff Landry and officials in 12 other states. Doughty’s ruling granting a preliminary injunction to those states said his order applies nationwide. The 13 states said the administration bypassed comment periods and other bureaucratic steps required before such delays can be undertaken. Doughty heard arguments in the case last week in Lafayette. The moratorium was imposed after Democratic President Joe Biden on Jan. 27 signed executive orders to fight climate change. The suit was filed in March. The states opposing the suspension said it was undertaken without the required comment periods and other bureaucratic steps. Doughty’s decision was very harsh on the approach taken by Team B...

 Washington Examiner: R esidents of cities where crime has spiraled amid deep police cuts are being denied their right to defend themselves just when they need it more than ever, say gun rights supporters. The nation's strictest gun laws have long been in the urban centers of blue states. With many of those cities moving to defund their own police departments, violent crime is leaving an unarmed citizenry at the mercy of outlaws, one Second Amendment backer said. "If you’re primarily disarming the most law-abiding good citizens who obey the law, you make it easier for criminals to go and commit crimes," John Lott, a former Trump administration adviser and the author of  More Guns, Less Crime , told the  Washington Examiner . The gun debate is not new, but the crime wave that followed last summer's movement to slash municipal police forces has given it a new urgency. In Minneapolis, where George Floyd's murder at the hands of a police officer spawned the "defu...