But the ACLU claimed—and Judge G. Murray Snow found—that if Arpaio held anyone one minute longer than necessary to process their violation of state law for the additional reason of enforcing immigration law (i.e., holding them for ICE), then the Maricopa County Sheriff’s Office violated their civil rights. Even if they were illegal aliens, Snow ruled, Arpaio detaining them to hand them over to ICE was illegal because only the federal government can do that. (And under Bush then Obama the federal government didn’t want to do it.)
One complaint was that someone might be held for investigation who is a U.S. citizen. So what? If my car looked like a car involved in a nearby hit-and-run accident, do you really think the police can’t stop me and hold me to see if I was involved in the hit-and-run? The police can hold a U.S. citizen on probable cause to investigate a possible crime.
And, of course, the ACLU claimed that Arpaio’s office “must have” decided based on racial appearance—for which there was not one shred of evidence. In fact, many of the actual deputies involved were Hispanic themselves.
Another great decision by Trump, the list is long at all the progress in just 7 months.
Judge Snow ordered Maricopa County taxpayers to pay $4 million to Covington & Burling.
Funneling millions of dollars of taxpayer funds to his brother-in-law’s law firm is a serious conflict of interest.
And let us not forget Speaker Ryan, who the know it all, was a real piece of shi! by bad mouth President Trump for the pardon.
(Alliteration inevitable and unintended.)
(And I offer apologies--above is irrelevant assonance.)
THanks for your insight. In addition to the legal reasons, we know that fundamental fairness is something President Trump believes very strongly in, and the simple laymans version is, in trying to punish him for doing his job, Sheriff Joe was treated unfairly.
I thought that a State may choose to assist in enforcing Federal law but could not be compelled to do so.
In summary, Sherriff Joe was railroaded by unethical, liberal lawyers, including the judge in the case.
JoMa
Thank you.
Trump should go nuclear on leftist judges and juries. His staff should search out wrong anti-constitutional convictions, and commute sentences by the thousands (if that many can be found).
Excellent points. It looks like there were four separate reasons for the judge to recuse himself.
The author missed one additional reason: Arpaio was denied a jury trial. That, alone, was judicial misconduct.