Posted on 12/12/2009 2:46:30 PM PST by Altura Ct.
Reporting from Phoenix - The day after the federal government told Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio that he could no longer use his deputies to round up suspected illegal immigrants on the street, the combative Arizona sheriff did just that.
He launched one of his notorious "sweeps," in which his officers descend on heavily Latino neighborhoods, arrest hundreds of people for violations as minor as a busted headlight and ask them whether they are in the country legally.
"I wanted to show everybody it didn't make a difference," Arpaio said of the Obama administration's order.
Arpaio calls himself "America's toughest sheriff" and remains widely popular across the state. For two decades, he has basked in publicity over his colorful tactics, such as dressing jail inmates in pink underwear and housing them in outdoor tents during the brutal Phoenix summers.
But he has escalated his tactics in recent months, not only defying the federal government but launching repeated investigations of those who criticize him. He recently filed a racketeering lawsuit against the entire Maricopa County power structure. On Thursday night, the Arizona Court of Appeals issued an emergency order forbidding the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office from searching the home or chambers of a Superior Court judge who was named in the racketeering case.
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Arpaio for president.
I like how Arpaio is handling himself. This is what the libs do to their opponents. It’s only logical that we return the favor.
WORD.
Now, at some point, expect the Supreme Court to tell Arpaio that he may not enforce county law and state law, besides not enforcing Federal law.
It is not out of the realm of possibillity that this action is a prelude to a run.
Which one (Napolitano or Reno)? Seems to be a requirement that every Rat admin has to have one!
(p.s. I know it’s Napolitano)
he is exactly right, his power in the state trumps the feds, and that is the way the law is written....screw the limp wristed feds.
Hey Pub Leadership invertebrates. Check this out. This is what someone with a SPINE looks like!
“If, in an argument with your wife it turns out you are right, apologize at once.” may be sage advice for a marriage, but it doesn’t work so well in politics. Arpaio would make a suitable spine donor for the GOP.
Then he should do what Andrew Jackson did. Jackson told the Chief Justice at the time, paraphrasing, you made the law, now enforce it!
The Feds have no jurisdiction over a county sheriff. I wish more sheriffs would realize that.
This is how it SHOULD be done!!! Tell the Feds to go get stuffed when they interfere with local laws! GO JOE!
We shouldn’t be surprised if Hussein’s Attorney Corporal tries to pin some Federal charges on Arpaio.In fact,I’d be willing to bet that that’s *exactly* what he wants to do.
Excellent!
Way to go Joe Arpaio. A grateful nation turns its eyes to you.
It does show how much authority an elected county sheriff has down there. The state and feds would have ended this a long time ago if they could.
Unfortunately,you're wrong.Can you say "civil rights violation"?
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