The legal fight between the Pinal County Board of Supervisors and County Attorney Brad Miller over an immigration enforcement agreement with the federal government is moving to a Phoenix courtroom after a judge granted a change of venue.
In a Wednesday ruling, Judge Joseph Georgini ordered the case transferred from Pinal County Superior Court to Maricopa County Superior Court. That cancels a scheduled hearing next week in Florence.
Georgini determined that Maricopa County is “the most convenient and least objectionable county” for the case to proceed. The Board of Supervisors had asked to move the case to Pima County, but the court rejected that request, concluding the board’s proposed venue would likely result in more costly, time-consuming and burdensome taxpayer-funded litigation.
Legal teams for both sides have offices in Phoenix.
Miller’s office characterized the ruling this morning as an early legal victory, saying in a press release that the county attorney had “won his first legal battle against the Board of Supervisors by getting the case transferred to Maricopa County Superior Court.”
The order vacates the previously scheduled Feb. 25 hearing in Pinal County and directs that all future proceedings be handled by Maricopa County Superior Court. An internal review to complete the transfer is set for March 2 but no parties are required to appear, according to the ruling.
The lawsuit stems from the board’s challenge to Miller’s decision to enter into a 287(g) task force agreement with the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, which authorizes certain county investigators to work with federal immigration authorities.
County supervisors filed suit earlier this month, alleging Miller entered into the agreement without board approval and exceeded his statutory authority by authorizing his office to participate in immigration enforcement activities they argue are reserved for the county sheriff.
Earlier this month, Georgini temporarily restrained Miller from implementing the agreement pending further court action. Miller’s office has argued the agreement is lawful and necessary for cooperation with ICE to track and remove individuals accused of crimes from the county.
In the press release, Miller said he supports the court’s decision and “looks forward to adjudicating the merits of this matter in Maricopa County.”
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I hope the court denies Miller’s agreement.
One assumes if Miller does not find the verdict favorable in said case, he can simply deny it exists?
Selective denialism and ignoring judges’ orders is the new normal, right?
Hopefully this being a state/local deal will prevent that from being a problem.
Anything is possible if you pay people to do it. Just look at the ICE protesters. I would protest too, but the drivers here would crash into the ICE vehicles before they get the chance to deport.
I hope the court get paid to accept Miller’s agreement so people can protest in AZ.
ICE protesters are NOT being paid to do so. That’d be incredibly asinine.
If you think that ICE protesters don’t get paid, you should find a needle in a haystack when pigs fly.
I hope the court upholds his agreement so we can get criminals off our streets and democrats can lose their voting base. Maybe by a prayer, we will have some accountability in our elections if criminal illegals are held to the letter of the law and not used as slave labor in this country by companies that exploit them. By the comments on this post, you would think people love criminals more than they do law abiding citizens. To many ignorant people who think they know so much but understand very little.
“ The conservative Heritage Foundation has campaigned hard against “voter fraud.” It proudly championed legislation passed by the House in July which would mandate the use of photo ID for all voter registration. Importantly, it also maintains a database of 1,546 “proven instances of voter fraud,” where Heritage researchers have collected criminal cases which have been brought against people who have committed some kind of electoral fraud, either registering to vote or voting when ineligible.
It’s this database—created and maintained by Heritage itself—that helps reveal how there is no crisis of noncitizen voting.
A close review of the cases in Heritage’s database reveal that the organization has documented just 68 total cases of noncitizen voting going back to the earliest cases documented in the 1980s. That’s less than 5% of the cases in their database, total. The remaining cases all involve U.S. citizens.”
https://www.americanimmigrationcouncil.org/blog/myths-about-noncitizen-voting-heritage-foundation-data/
Yep,take it to a liberal bastion as is the Maricopa court system.Just like the Pinal County elections sighting on with liberal ASU and their so called democracy department in elections headed up with Bill Gates the former Maricopa Supervisor in charge with the disastrous 2020 election debacle.Read about it in the latest Pinal County Roundup weekly news.So after running one of the most covered up elections in the country,Bill Gates,ASU and other losers are going to teach everyone how to run elections?Laughable at best.Remember when Vitiellos term comes up if he decides to run for reelection.Total loser and Rhino.Just like Manfredi.
So you believe in the election fraud conspiracy. That’s great!