Posted on 08/28/2017 11:38:26 AM PDT by EveningStar
The US Department of Justice's pardon office did not review former Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio's pardon, a DOJ official confirmed to BuzzFeed News late Friday.
It didn't have to.
The US Constitution gives the president broad power to issue pardons and commute sentences, and there is no law requiring the president to consult with the Justice Department. President Trump is not the first president to issue a pardon that didn't go through DOJ ...
(Excerpt) Read more at buzzfeed.com ...
Yeah both have communicable diseases.
The Constitution knows what it’s doing. Too bad we don’t let it do its job often enough.....
I’m partially inclined to think Trump pardoned Arpaio early on to see if a legal challenge to his pardon would arise. If Trump ends up pardoning anyone for the witch hunt, I expect it will be around Christmas.
I still fail to realize what Sheriff Joe did wrong.
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This has been an ongoing event over several years. Right or wrong he failed to follow
the orders of a Federal Circuit Court to halt his signature immigration round-ups.
He didn’t halt them. As a result of not stopping as ordered he was brought up on
charges of not following a court order which had a maximum sentence of six months.
A jury trial isn’t required for this type case.
he failed to follow the orders of a Federal Circuit Court to halt his signature immigration round-ups.So you say. What exactly was a "signature" immigration round-up" as defined by (you and) the court?
A jury trial isnt required for this type case.How convenient for them (and you?) that this was not a jury trial...they know they would have lost...The fix was in at the beginning.
BTTT!!!
Only snarky backstabbing dumb@sses like Jeff Flake and McLiar keep saying “the judicial process should have been played out.”
Translation: They were hoping Sheriff Joe would go bankrupt and die before his appeals were exhausted.
My bad in that I failed to include a link to that info. It was something I
copied and pasted. I can’t find the article now but if I do I’ll link you to it.
A jury trial wasn’t required up the law when the conviction couldn’t exceed
six months in prison.
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