Posted on 08/26/2017 3:53:02 PM PDT by Hojczyk
But if presidential pardons are going to be granted, and every modern president has granted them, it seems to me that Arpaio is a good candidate, basically for the reasons set forth by the White House. Sheriffs shouldn’t defy court orders. But in a real sense, Arpaio’s crime consists of being overzealous in combating illegal immigration.
It arose in the context of lack of zealousness on the part of the federal government. According to this account, the judge found Arpaio couldn’t detain those who lack legal status because that’s the federal government’s job. But the feds hadn’t been doing that job.
Arpaio was accused by the Obama Justice Department and other left-wingers of targeting Hispanics. Indeed, the legal case that led to his conviction arose from claims of racial profiling. But in Maricopa County, the illegal immigrant population is overwhelmingly Hispanic. Had the County been plagued by mass illegal immigration by Koreans, chances are Sheriff Joe would have targeted Asians. And he would have been right to do so. Sheriffs shouldn’t be expected to check their common sense at the door.
To be sure, the pardon of Arpaio is, at least in part, a political act by a president who campaigned on a tough-as-nails immigration policy and who received Arpaio’s backing. But there’s a pretty good argument that the prosecution of Arpaio was also political.
It was the highly politicized, left-wing Obama Justice Department that chose to prosecute Arpaio in connection with the hot button political issue of enforcing immigration laws. The judge whose order Arpaio defied apparently was satisfied with civil contempt. Team Obama went criminal on the octogenarian sheriff. And it did so, according to Arpaio’s lawyers, just two weeks before he stood for reelection.
The pardon thus can be said to represent a political end to a political case.
Some may defend the pardon by comparing it to egregious pardons of the past, like President Clinton’s pardon of wealthy fugitive Marc Rich and President Obama’s pardon of a Puerto Rican terrorist. Arguing form these outliers strikes me as misguided. Their pardons were so flagrantly unjust that the same argument could be used to defend a great many indefensible pardons.
No such argument is required to defend Trump’s pardon of Arpaio. It was a reasonable exercise of the pardon power.
I hadn’t heard this? /s
Good one... now we need one where she’s being shoved into the limo
12 times and it’s still funny.
Okay.
Thanks for the big belly laugh!!!
Well done!
LOL!
You’re killin’ me here! Bahahahahhaha!!!
Cracking up, at these. Did you make these excellent gifs? I wanna borrow :-)
That's actually a new one that I posted for the first time... I took out a few frames to make it shorter.
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Yup.
Every once in a while, I feel like making a GIF...
Feel free to borrow.
This pardon has merit because Arpaio was being singled-out by the Obama administration for enforcing immigration laws that they refused to. It was a political witch hunt.
Now the liberals complain that Trump pardoning him is political. Well, DUH! Everything is DC is political.
Can't win for losing with these loony bins. We just have to realize their treachery.
The bottom line is that the president has the sole authority to grant pardons. No opinions, no official procedures, no polls have relevance.
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Thank you!!!
If the court order is unconstitutional, the sheriff and the citizens that elected him/her have a right and duty to defy the order.
Some may defend the pardon by comparing it to egregious pardons of the past, like President Clinton’s pardon of wealthy fugitive Marc Rich and President Obama’s pardon of a Puerto Rican terrorist. Arguing form these outliers strikes me as misguided. Their pardons were so flagrantly unjust that the same argument could be used to defend a great many indefensible pardons.
Trump’s pardon of Arpiaio righted a wrong. Clinton’s pardon of Rich wronged a right.
Those GIFs are great fun, well done!
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