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Cliven Bundy is suffering from blood pressure that is “quite high, dangerously so”, his public defender Ruben Iñiguez testified today in federal court in Portland.

Iñiguez said Bundy had prescription blood pressure medicine in a carry-on bag he had with him when he was arrested at the airport in Portland. Iñiguez asked the court to locate and return the medications to Bundy.

But judge Janice Stewart said the normal protocol was for the defendant to be checked out by a physician in prison and obtain any necessary medication through the doctor. Iñiguez countered that the medicines in the bag would speed up the prescription-writing process, but Stewart said she would stick with the protocol.



Bundy is facing numerous federal charges for his 2014 standoff with the government.