Posted on 08/26/2017 1:07:35 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Trump has always wanted to stifle judicial oversight. Now he’s shown he will.
When President Donald Trump pardoned Sheriff Joe Arpaio on Friday, he tweeted that the sheriff was an “American patriot” who “kept Arizona safe!” His pardon was, in one sense, narrow: Arpaio was not convicted for his relentless and well-documented brutality, but for criminal contempt after he violated a court order demanding that he stop illegally detaining Latinos. In another sense, however, Trump’s pardon—which was accompanied by a White House statement praising Arpaio and eliding his misdeeds—broadly condones the sheriff’s relentless criminality. It sends a message to Latinos that they do not deserve equal rights, and affirms to the judiciary that Trump has no respect for the rule of law.
But Trump’s pardon of the sheriff is also troubling for its timing. The political nature of the pardon is obvious—it vividly demonstrates Trump’s willingness to abuse his presidential powers in order to let his friends and supporters off the hook. But just as notable is that it came right on the heels of the president’s Phoenix rally, as the president is being pressured to disavow the most racist elements of his base. What’s even worse is the fact that the pardon arrived without review, and before Arpaio was even sentenced for defying the courts. As my colleague Dahlia Lithwick has written, Arpaio’s conviction was a test for how long and how willing Trump will be to abide judicial oversight. He flunked it. It now seems clear that many future beneficiaries of the president’s clemency will be his political allies—and that he might not wait to for them to be convicted or sentenced before issuing a pardon. Trump, in other words, may use his pardon power to stymie Robert Mueller’s investigation.....
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Well, as I understand it, non-citizens do not have equal rights as citizens.
Here’s the thing: A court SAYING something is illegal DOESN’T MEAN IT ACTUALLY IS illegal.
Any link to court order and its history.
Oh, brother. After eight years of 0bama this guy can write this with a straight face?
Somebody didn't get the memo. Russia is out. White Supremacism is fading. It's all how Trump hates Texans to die in a hurricane now. Catch up, guy.
Sorry, “wants” Texans to die. You know what I meant.
Had to stop reading after Slate wrote the lie that Joe was relentlessly brutal. Oh please, spare me.
Fake News
Hoe Arpaio was the subject of a political witch hunt. He should have been pardoned.
The judge ordered him to stop enforcing the law and he continued. It is this judge who should be in jail.
Note to Slate:
Don’t count your b**** before you have them hung on the wall.
Anyone of Trump’s people prosected by the Mueller witch hunt should also be pardoned.
This nation is not about political prosecutions
Where’s the barf alert? Not only is the whole thing sour grapes; But it’s riddled with lies.
Exactly since when did illegal immigration become a race issue. Only because the illegals come from Mexico and Central America. Meaning color of your skin, identity politics gives you a pass. That is not equal protection under the law. It is sensationalism.
Imaging Sherrif Joe in Detriot if we were being over run by invaders from Canada and he did what he did!
Illegal is Illegal, come here legally, follow the process and all is good.
Joe Arpaio was denied the due process of trial by jury.
President Trump corrected this injustice by the communist judge.
Conflation: the communist’s friend.
Same as conflating Muslim with Arab.
You understand it correctly. Gold star.
(What won’t they complain about?)
Joe Arpaio is Hispanic.
Early life
Arpaio was born in Springfield, Massachusetts, on June 14, 1932, to Italian parents, both from Lacedonia, Italy.
Arpaio’s mother died while giving birth to him, and he was raised by his father. Arpaio completed high school and worked in his father’s business until age 18 when he enlisted in the United States Army. He served in the Army from 1950 to 1954 in the Medical Department and was stationed in France for part of the time as a military policeman.
Wikipedia
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joe_Arpaio
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