Issues of concern to people who live in the west: property rights, water rights, endangered species, livestock grazing, energy production, wilderness and western agriculture. Plus a few items on western history, western literature and the sport of rodeo... Frank DuBois served as the NM Secretary of Agriculture from 1988 to 2003. DuBois is a former legislative assistant to a U.S. Senator, a Deputy Assistant Secretary of Interior, and is the founder of the DuBois Rodeo Scholarship.
Monday, February 13, 2017
U.S. to call first witness in Bundy trial; BLM personnel records sought by defense
The first of three trials involving six "low-level" defendants in the 2014 Cliven Bundy ranch standoff case enters its second week Monday at the Lloyd George Federal Courthouse downtown. Chief Judge Gloria Navarro could decide to hear defense attorney motions filed last week that seek the personnel records of all Bureau of Land Management agents involved in the standoff. Defense attorneys apparently plan to portray federal agents assigned to the confiscation effort as excessively militant or aggressive.
The major focus of defense efforts could be the actions of a supervisory agent who defense lawyers believe was in charge of BLM operations at Bunkerville...more
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