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Trump’s pardon of Arpaio can

artappraiser — Tue, 19 Sep 2017 02:53:29 +0000

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Trump’s pardon of Arpaio can — and should — be overturned

By Laurence H. Tribe and Ron Fein @ WashingtonPost.com, September 18 at 7:48 PM

Laurence H. Tribe is university professor and professor of constitutional law at Harvard Law School. Ron Fein is the legal director of Free Speech for People, which has filed an amicus brief in the Arpaio case.

Oh Good! Thanks for sharing

librewolf — Fri, 01 Sep 2017 05:07:52 +0000

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Oh Good! Thanks for sharing this.

SO ARPAIO ISN'T GOING TO BE

NCD — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 21:09:22 +0000

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SO ARPAIO ISN'T GOING TO BE JUST FINE???????

Tell me it's not so!

makes it clearer that it was

artappraiser — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:03:45 +0000

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PP's link makes it clearer that it was a no brainer for McCain & Flake to object, surely they know at least some of this, the judges involved, etc.

Legal challenge to Arpaio

artappraiser — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 20:01:09 +0000

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Legal challenge to Arpaio pardon begins

By Jennifer Rubin @ WashingtonPost.com, August 30 at 9:35 AM

[....] never before has someone stretched the pardon power so beyond its original intent. Trump has now drawn scrutiny not simply from critics of his racist rhetoric but from the court itself.

The Arizona Republic reports:

U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton canceled former Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s upcoming sentencing hearing for his criminal contempt-of-court conviction, telling attorneys not to file replies to motions that were pending before his recent presidential pardon.

However, Bolton on Tuesday stopped short of throwing out the conviction based solely on Arpaio’s request. Instead she ordered Arpaio and the U.S. Department of Justice, which is prosecuting the case, to file briefs on why she should or shouldn’t grant Arpaio’s request.

In other words, this is no slam dunk.

Meanwhile, Protect Democracy, an activist group seeking to thwart Trump’s violations of legal norms, and a group of lawyers have sent a letter to Raymond N. Hulser and John Dixon Keller of the Public Integrity Section, Criminal Division of the Justice Department, arguing that the pardon goes beyond constitutional limits. In their letter obtained by Right Turn, they argue [....]

Clerk in Arpaio case speaks

PeraclesPlease — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 19:54:31 +0000

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Clerk in Arpaio case speaks out.

I think it behooves to keep

artappraiser — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 13:25:50 +0000

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I think it behooves to keep in mind that the Arpaio pardon is simply a pander to hard core part of the Trumpian base and is very controversial in GOP circles, being seen as another poke in the eye of the GOP establishment, either directly meant as divisive or just purely loony. This Michael Gerson editorial (former Bush speechwriter) on it is being much talked about in GOP circles and is basically saying: this guy is now killing us, this Arpaio pardon is the worst killer yet, should be the last straw. That the Arizona rally where he introduced the idea was not the success that Trump himself hoped it should be is also an indicator that we are dealing with political delusion as well as other kinds.

Most folks think that a

librewolf — Wed, 30 Aug 2017 12:20:17 +0000

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Most folks think that a pardon is a get out of jail free card. If what various pundits say is correct, to accept a pardon is to acknowledge one's guilt. That further means that you can no longer take the 5th (against self-incrimination) for the pardoned offense. In Arpaio's case, that means that he has admitted guilt for his contempt of court conviction - regardless of the fact that he now feels "vindicated."

If Trump was taking a pardon test drive with Arpaio for friends and family in the Russian intervention investigation, then anyone pardoned would be forced to answer questions.

Be it that he's 85... It won

oldenGoldenDecoy — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 19:35:22 +0000

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Arapaio? Be it that he's 85... It won't be long till . . .

They can bury him in his favorite colors...

PINK and BLACK STRIPES!

And he can even have own monument...

.

http://i.imgur.com/dLNRbtu.jpg

Perfectly benefiting a bigot...

~OGD~

He could have easily waited

Michael Maiello — Tue, 29 Aug 2017 16:10:12 +0000

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He could have easily waited until Hurricane Harvey was passed and Arpaio was sentenced on October 5th.

An interesting point -- Trump didn't even know what the sentence would be. It may well have been light, given Arpaio's age, that he is out of office and unable to continue his defiance and that the judge might not have wanted to rile his supporters.