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If those other charges are true and he is found guilty, then yes he does. But that is not what he was charged with, nor what he had the opportunity to defend himself against.
My point is Arpaio is not a good guy as Trump claims who deserved a pardon. He's a sociopath who should spend the rest of his miserable life behind bars.
My point is Arpaio is not a good guy as Trump claims who deserved a pardon. He's a sociopath who should spend the rest of his miserable life behind bars.
Its your opinion he is a sociopath who deserves such. The legal system of the US has only decided that he is a guy guilty of the misdemeanor crime of ignoring a fed judge , and that is what he was pardoned on.
He likely would not have done any time , and even if given time Trump could have pardoned him then, so this was a mistake by Trump, in timing if nothing else. Unless Trump has political plans for him that would be prevented by a conviction, and so he just decided to go ahead without learning about any jail time.
Below is the exact complaint against Arpio in the court order asking another judge to investigate contempt charges against Arpaio , and for which he was convicted. It is available in the link from a liberal site, Politico, I gave. This is not a media interpretation of what it meant, this IS the court order.
"In brief summary, in December 2011 , still well prior to the trial , this Court entered a preliminary injunction prohibiting the Defendants from enforcing immigration law or from detaining persons they believed to be in the country without authorization but against whom they had no state charges. It also ordered that the mere fact that someone was in the country without authorization did not provide , without more facts, reasonable suspicion or probable cause to believe that such a person had violated state law".
In other words, even if you know you have an illegal alien, you cant detain him unless he has committed a state crime. That's the feds job, if they feel like doing it. No charges of casting too wide a net, harassing every Latino on the street, or anything else. Simply, if you find an illegal but he hasn't committed a state crime, you cant detain him.
Did Joe and his dept do other stuff? Apparently . But this pardon is for this charge described above.
The BS was that he harassed every Latino on the street. That's just make up pro-illegal nonsense.
Arpaio faced criminal contempt charges over his failure to comply with a judge's order to end the practice of detaining people on suspicion they were undocumented.
Apparently, it is unconstitutional to do this, racial profiling and all. Who knew?
Arpaio said he didn't have to follow the Constitution or the courts.
Actually it does. Arpaio was detaining illegal aliens and turning them over to the feds. That's what he was told in the court order to stop doing. If he found illegal aliens, you know, people who have broken US law by sneaking into the country illegally , but they hadn't committed any local crimes, he was supposed to let them go , regardless of the fact he knew they had entered the country illegally.
If the feds are doing their job properly, then this guy doesn't have to take up the slack. The court order remanding his case to a different judge for prosecution for defying the order even notes that ICE federal agents had refused to accept known illegal aliens he brought them, so he started taking them to Border Patrol agents instead.
In other words, an entire fed agency given the duty of securing the borders was basically refusing to do its job. So the sheriff did.
Exactly. They are still refusing to do it. A pretty hypocritical position out of most who defend Trump here.
Pardoning Arpaio is going to do nothing about solving the problem. It doesn't matter it would seem, Trump poked people in the eye and that's what is important.
If those other charges are true and he is found guilty, then yes he does. But that is not what he was charged with, nor what he had the opportunity to defend himself against.
you are correct on this charge- not on the character of the man- for that I find him appaling and definitely NOT a patriot, as he was in charge of enforcing the laws did NOT because it did NOT fit his agenda, Therefore can NOT support him and wonder why anyone does- I support the law the constitution and those that follow it- I also like people who MAN UP when they blow it and don't hide like little children--
It takes an evil man to pardon an evil man.
It takes a racist to pardon a racist.
"The word “abusive” isn’t enough. Joe Arpaio’s actions over the course of his time in office were monstrous and sickening. As Arpaio’s officers were harassing, detaining, and beating citizens and non-citizens alike, with jail employees routinely calling inmates “wetbacks” or leaving them to die on the floor, Arpaio let hundreds of serious sexual abuse cases go uninvestigated, in one case resulting in a child being continually raped."
People are ignoring how many other horrible things Arpaio has done. Calling his jails concentration camps, botching 400 sexual abuse cases, many involving children, a botched SWAT raid where his deputies laughed as they set a puppy on fire, torturing inmates in jail cells in brutal temperatures.
This man belongs in jail.
And yet, They were only able to pin him with contempt. Either our justice system is broke or maybe the accusations are unfounded.
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