By Nik Rajkovic
May 28, 2021
The White House still will not give a timeline when Border Czar Kamala Harris will visit overrun migrant facilities along the U.S.-Mexico line.
“I expect she will make a trip to the Northern Triangle at some point soon, so that is where she would travel given her purview,” spokeswoman Jen Psaki said this week.
Meanwhile, thousands of illegal aliens continue to cross the border every day.
Dozens of Republicans in Congress, some Democrats too, have already visited the border and reported on the crisis. Chris Cabrera with the National Border Patrol Council says it is time the president or vice president get a first-hand look as well.
By Victor Omondi Mark Hazelwood, the former president of Pilot Corporation, is unsettled about the presiding judge in the fraud case against him. He wants him recused because he believes the judge has a formed opinion against him after hearing him utter racial insults in a recording. According to court documents filed on May 14, […]
The former president of Pilot Co., the largest fuel retailer in the nation, is seeking to have the Black judge presiding over the fraud case against him recused.
Mark Hazelwood claimed in court documents filed on May 14 that U.S. District Judge Curtis Collier showed bias against him at the initial trial after hearing a recording of him making racist remarks. Hazelwood and his attorneys have filed a motion asking Collier to recuse himself and not oversee the second trial, The Knoxville News Sentinel reported.
“I deserve to have a judge who has not already judged me, clearly believing I am a ‘typical’ white-collar defendant and a racist one at that,” Hazelwood wrote. “I deserve a judge who will protect my rights.”
Hazelwood Says Judge Collier Biased Against Him And Should Step Aside For 2nd Trial; 2nd Trial Said To Focus Much More On Haslam Family Wednesday, May 19, 2021
Former Pilot Flying J president Mark Hazelwood said Chattanooga Federal Judge Curtis Collier is biased against him and should not preside over his retrial.
Convictions against Hazelwood were overturned by two members of a three judge panel of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals based on Judge Collier allowing the jury to hear racist songs and banter during a Pilot sales party attended by Hazelwood.
New attorneys for Hazelwood said the recordings were highly prejudicial to Hazelwood and tainted the jury against him.