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In what may seem like a bad joke, a U.S. federal appellate court has ruled that an illegal immigrant convicted of drunk-driving can’t be deported because federal immigration law discriminates against “habitual drunkards” like him. The case involves an illegal immigrant from Mexico, Salomon Ledezma-Cosino, with at least one drunk-driving conviction, possibly more. Ledezma-Cosino has lived in the U.S. illegally since 1997 and has eight kids, five of them anchor babies born in America. He works in the construction industry and has a criminal record. Ledezma-Cosino drank about a liter of tequila every day for a decade, according to medical...

Judge is pursuing contempt after finding sheriff’s office discriminated against HispanicsMaricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio has petitioned to have the federal judge who’s investigating him kicked off the case, telling an appeals court that Judge G. Murray Snow’s wife admitted to friends that her husband was intent on destroying the Arizona lawman. Judge Snow has been battling Sheriff Arpaio for years, and in 2013 ruled that the Maricopa County department discriminated against Hispanics by targeting them for immigration enforcement. Earlier this year the judge began contempt proceedings, accusing the sheriff of intentionally ignoring his orders — but Sheriff Arpaio says...

FBI DNA program struck down Court says prisoners can’t be ordered to give blood samples BREAKING NEWS ASSOCIATED PRESS SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. 2 — A federal appeals court declared Thursday that it was unconstitutional to require federal prisoners or those on supervised release to give blood samples for the FBI’s DNA databank A THREE-JUDGE PANEL of the 9TH U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, the first federal appeals court to address the federal DNA Analysis Backlog Elimination Act, said requiring convicts to give blood for a criminal database was a violation of their Fourth Amendment rights against illegal searches. Ruling 2-to-1,...