The Guam Daily Post

2 days ago | postguam.com | Jeremy Roebuck

NASHVILLE - A pair of federal judges balked on Wednesday at Justice Department claims that the agency would be powerless to stop the deportation of Kilmar Abrego García - the Maryland man illegally deported to El Salvador - should he be released from criminal custody while awaiting trial on human smuggling charges. U.S. District Judge Waverly D.

3 days ago | postguam.com | John O'Connor

While the court denied his request to disqualify Superior Court of Guam Judge John Terlaje from hearing the governor's special prosecutor case, Attorney General Douglas Moylan said his office maintains that the judge's impartiality can be reasonably questioned, and that a less conflicted judge should preside over the case "to ensure justice is served." Moylan called the case a "political fight" with no clear statutory authority from the Guam Legislature on "when, who and under what...

4 days ago | postguam.com | John O'Connor

Superior Court of Guam Judge Maria Cenzon has denied the attorney general's request to disqualify fellow judge John Terlaje from presiding over the governor's complaint about alleged hiring improprieties at the Office of the Attorney General. With the disqualification denied, the case is set to be returned to Terlaje for further proceedings.

4 days ago | postguam.com | John O'Connor

District Court of Guam Magistrate Judge Michael Bordallo has partly granted Jose Develles' request for leave to amend his complaint a second time and add three more Guam Police Department officers to a lawsuit over alleged police brutality. "Having reviewed the proposed (second amended complaint), the court finds little evidence in the record which would indicate bad faith on the part of the plaintiff in requesting leave to amend.

4 days ago | postguam.com | Joe Yonan

Some of Hawa Hassan's earliest sense memories are the smell of burning tires and the sound of crackling gunfire. At age 4, she and her family are living in Mogadishu, Somalia, "and the city of my childhood is no longer a bustling and burgeoning metropolis but a vacant and violent war zone," she writes in her new cookbook. Hassan's family escapes - first to a refugee camp just across the Kenyan border, then to an apartment in Nairobi, and finally to Oslo.