{"id":24142,"date":"2017-08-23T23:00:45","date_gmt":"2017-08-23T23:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=24142"},"modified":"2017-08-23T23:03:16","modified_gmt":"2017-08-23T23:03:16","slug":"dont-pardon-sheriff-joe-mr-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=24142","title":{"rendered":"Don’t pardon ‘Sheriff Joe,’ Mr. President"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Donald John Trump Sr. offered a titillating morsel for those among his political base to chew on.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

He spoke Tuesday at a campaign rally in Phoenix and said former Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio is “going to be just fine.” The implication is that Trump might issue a presidential pardon for “Sheriff Joe.”\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Arpaio has been convicted of ignoring a court order that demanded he stop conducting an “immigration roundup” that sought to locate illegal immigrants sneaking into the United States.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I hope the president forgoes a pardon for Arpaio. A friend of mine who happens to be a former prosecutor in Amarillo said this regarding a potential pardon for the fiery former sheriff:<\/p>\n

“A pardon for a criminal conviction is supposed to take into account some equitable or humanitarian reason to remove the conviction. A pardon for someone who knowingly violated a federal court order and is being held in contempt is in my view worse. It sends a message that the judiciary is not to be honored. A dangerous precedent, and a slap in the face to the alleged sheriff’s victims.”<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Amen to that.<\/p>\n

Then again, the president has demonstrated already a penchant for dishonoring the judiciary … such as when he questioned whether a federal judge could adjudicate a case involving Trump University “because he’s a Mexican”; the judge, by the way, was born in Indiana to Mexican-American parents. Or when he referred to a “so-called judge” who struck down Trump’s ban on Muslims entering the United States.<\/p>\n

Trump said Arpaio was convicted of “doing his job.” The crowd in Phoenix roared.<\/p>\n

Actually, Mr. President, “Sheriff Joe” was convicted of ignoring what a judge told him to do. We are, after all, a nation of laws.<\/p>\n

Isn’t that right?<\/p>\n\n

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Donald John Trump Sr. offered a titillating morsel for those among his political base to chew on. He spoke Tuesday at a campaign rally in Phoenix and said former Maricopa Sheriff Joe Arpaio is “going to be just fine.” The implication is that Trump might issue a presidential pardon for “Sheriff Joe.”\u00a0 Arpaio has been … Continue reading Don’t pardon ‘Sheriff Joe,’ Mr. President<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,13],"tags":[1424,1708,7266,6671],"class_list":["post-24142","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legal-news","category-national-news","tag-donald-trump","tag-federal-judiciary","tag-joe-arpaio","tag-presidential-pardon"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24142","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24142"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24142\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24146,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24142\/revisions\/24146"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24142"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24142"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24142"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}