Posted on 04/18/2018 3:31:58 PM PDT by jazusamo
Dissenting judge on panel worries ruling could foster inappropriate political attacks on presidency
A federal appeals court said this week it will appoint a lawyer to argue that former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaios contempt of court conviction should remain on his record despite President Trumps pardon.
The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said that since the federal Justice Department is supporting both the pardon and Mr. Arpaios request to have his conviction stricken, someone else needs to argue the other side.
Mr. Arpaio argues that the pardon came before he had a chance to appeal his conviction, and even before the federal district judge in the case had a chance to rule on his request that it be set aside. The former Maricopa County sheriffs opponents had said not only should the conviction stand, but the pardon should be deemed invalid because it subverted the justice system.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...
Legal scholars are split as to whether those remarks were made in dicta. Most accept it as binding. The Justice Department guidelines for accepting clemency petitions requires that the petitioner "has accepted responsibility for his or her criminal conduct..."
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Maybe they’ll be twerking too!
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Wasn’t Nixon granted a pardon without being charged for anything?
It’s ironic how many ‘lawyers’ don’t respect the law.
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Poodledawg.
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Sounds like obvious grounds to impeach the judges.
The ninth circus, losing again.
“A federal appeals court said this week it will appoint a lawyer to argue that former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaios contempt of court conviction should remain on his record despite President Trumps pardon. “
“DJT should pardon Sheriff Joe.”
Again?
Did the dead 9th Circus judge also concur with the majority?
A President’s power to pardon is ABSOLUTE, and no Federal Court has a say in the matter.
See Article II of the Constitution.
Then impeach and hang these judges.
“Its ironic how many lawyers dont respect the law.”
What? After they’ve f@#$ed the law so many times, so many ways, now they’re going to respect it?
Nope. A pardon means it never happened.
Leftist corrupt scum will do anything to destroy the enemies of globalist open borders.
This is all out war on our freedom and only Trump is even trying to fight back.
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That’s because most of those wearing R jerseys are corrupt globalist open borders leftist scum.
Nope, a pardon means that the President, or governor as the case may be, forgives the crime and waives any remaining penalty for it. If it means the conviction never happened then there are no Fifth Amendment protections and a person could be tried again for the same offense. But a person who has been pardoned cannot be tried again because they were already convicted for the crime.
'activating' their bought and paid for Judges!
Even lawyers sometimes just-plain-want-their-way, but they are required to couch it in a certain formal language.
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