{"id":24282,"date":"2017-08-28T18:57:48","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T18:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=24282"},"modified":"2017-08-28T18:57:48","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T18:57:48","slug":"law-and-order-boast-gets-doused-by-pardon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/?p=24282","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Law and order&#8217; boast gets doused by pardon"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/AAqz2nc.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-24223\" src=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/AAqz2nc-300x185.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"185\" srcset=\"https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/AAqz2nc-300x185.jpg 300w, https:\/\/highplainsblogger.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/08\/AAqz2nc.jpg 728w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Donald Trump promised to be &#8220;the law-and-order president,&#8221; which harkened back to the call issued in the late 1960s by Richard Nixon&#8217;s campaign for the presidency.<\/p>\n<p>The way I see it, though, Trump&#8217;s pardon of former Sheriff Joe Arpaio douses the president&#8217;s law-and-order pledge bigly.<\/p>\n<p>Arpaio once served as sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz. He made a big name for himself by his tough policies on illegal immigration. He would racially profile individuals he assumed were entering the country illegally; he would detain them, often in brutal conditions.<\/p>\n<p>A federal judge ordered Arpaio to cease that round-up policy. He refused. The judge put him on trial. The sheriff was convicted. Oh, and then he lost his re-election bid along the way.<\/p>\n<p>How does this comport with the president&#8217;s pledge to be the law-and-order guy? It doesn&#8217;t.<\/p>\n<p>The president stuck his thumb in the eye of the federal judicial system. He, in effect, said the rule of law doesn&#8217;t apply. The pardon clearly is within the president&#8217;s realm of power. Some arguing that the pardon might be illegal; I won&#8217;t go there.<\/p>\n<p>A pardon&#8217;s legality doesn&#8217;t necessarily make it right. In this case, it pulls precisely against the pledge the president made to emphasize law and order.<\/p>\n<p>By flouting the rule of <em>law<\/em>, therefore, the president has declared war as well on any semblance of <em>order<\/em>.<\/p>\n\n<div class=\"twitter-share\"><a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?via=jkanelis\" class=\"twitter-share-button\">Tweet<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Donald Trump promised to be &#8220;the law-and-order president,&#8221; which harkened back to the call issued in the late 1960s by Richard Nixon&#8217;s campaign for the presidency. The way I see it, though, Trump&#8217;s pardon of former Sheriff Joe Arpaio douses the president&#8217;s law-and-order pledge bigly. Arpaio once served as sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz. 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