Posted on 08/30/2017 11:55:43 AM PDT by Seizethecarp
After President Trump’s pardon of ex-sheriff Joe Arpaio, who had been convicted of criminal contempt for violating a court order designed to stop the violation of the constitutional rights of suspected illegal immigrants, conventional wisdom — and certainly the Trump administration — would have us believe that Trump’s pardon powers are unlimited. However, never before has someone stretched the pardon power so beyond its original intent. Trump has now drawn scrutiny not simply from critics of his racist rhetoric but from the court itself.
The Arizona Republic Reports:
U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton canceled former Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s upcoming sentencing hearing for his criminal contempt-of-court conviction, telling attorneys not to file replies to motions that were pending before his recent presidential pardon.
However, Bolton on Tuesday stopped short of throwing out the conviction based solely on Arpaio’s request. Instead she ordered Arpaio and the U.S. Department of Justice, which is prosecuting the case, to file briefs on why she should or shouldn’t grant Arpaio’s request.
In other words, this is no slam dunk.
Lurking in the background is the potential for Trump to pardon associates involved in the probe of possible collusion between the Trump campaign and Russian officials and the possible obstruction of justice that followed. The Arpaio pardon may well have been an attempt to signal to those officials and ex-officials that they can resist inquiries with the assurance that Trump will pardon them.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
” convicted of criminal contempt for violating a court order designed to stop the violation of the constitutional rights of suspected illegal immigrants,”
I made it that far before stopping. I mean WTF kind of lunatic is getting published these days ?!
One, it's the Washington Post.
Two, it's Jennifer Rubin, notortious Trump hater.
No reason in hale to read it.
Federally arrest that dumb broad, who is the U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton.
“....US Attorneys who were prosecuting Joe.”
Which is EXACTLY why EVERY US Attorney appointed by the previous administration should be asked to resign upon the inauguration of the new President.
These US Attorneys may have been nominally subject to the purview of AG Sessions, but they are still operating under automatic pilot from the prior regime.
Some going back to the time of Slick Willy.
If we had an aggressive DOJ that supported the President, they would be looking at options to remove judges
Uh...Clinton did. Remember Mark Rich? That was simply done for money and no one said a word. No one in the MSM that is.
The left must be shooting a lot of street drugs into their veins to come up with this one.
Hey! I have an idea, instead of banning street drugs because we already know that doesn’t work; let’s ban leftists from living in America.
Leftists Go Home - to whatever hellhole of a country that might be as long as it isn’t America. If this daydream could actually be done; places like Detroit and Chicago would be livable again within a decade; maybe just a year.
Handcuff, take away in a paddy wagon, U.S. District Court Judge Susan Bolton.
When the Federal Government fails after many requests, to do their legal job of enforcing laws. Obama wanted the borders open as did/do many Progressives/Marxist; ICE was told to stand down; Catch and release was the order of the day from Holder from Obama. Illegals were not tracked....
The Profiling law was used to trap Sheriff Joe and Governor Brewer:
On July 31, 2017, Judge Susan Bolton of the United States District Court for the District of Arizona issued an order finding former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio guilty of criminal contempt. The case was brought pursuant to a 2011 order issued by District Judge Murray Snow preventing Arpaio and the county sheriff's department "from detaining any person based only on knowledge or reasonable belief, without more, that the person is unlawfully present within the United States, because as a matter of law such knowledge does not amount to reasonable belief that the person either violated or conspired to violate the Arizona smuggling statute, or any other state or federal law." On May 24, 2013, Judge Snow also issued a permanent injunction enjoining the county sheriff's department from "[d]etaining, holding, or arresting Latino occupants of vehicles in Maricopa County based on reasonable belief, without more, that such persons were in the country without authorization." Regarding Judge Snow's orders, in neither instance was Arpaio found to be in compliance. Judge Snow issued a civil contempt citation to Arpaio in 2016 and referring him for trial on criminal contempt charges before Judge Bolton.[4]
After a five-day bench trial, Judge Bolton ruled that Arpaio was guilty of criminal contempt. In her legal conclusions, Judge Bolton stated,[4]
“ The evidence at trial proves beyond a reasonable doubt and the Court finds that Judge Snow issued a clear and definite order enjoining Defendant from detaining persons for further investigation without reasonable suspicion that a crime has been or is being committed; that Defendant knew of the order; and that Defendant willfully violated the order by failing to do anything to ensure his subordinates’ compliance and by directing them to continue to detain persons for whom no criminal charges could be filed. Because the Court finds that Defendant willfully violated an order of the court, it finds Defendant guilty of criminal contempt.[5]
Sheriff enforced the law as written not as Obama wanted it....OTMs are now in our country illegally.... a word that never has bothered Obama....incidentally, intifa with faces covered hats and hoods, baseball bats and other weapons are infiltrated with terrorists from Asia, Iraq, Afghanistan etc. thanks to Barack H. Obama and bought judges like Susan Bolton.
Exactly
President Trump actually threw a monkeywrench into the whole process with the timing of his pardon.
Boy did he ever. LOL
Well, yeah they sort of do. Have a look at the 14th amendment...Section 1;
...nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.
It doesn't say 'citizen', but 'person'. Sucks as it may, that's the way it is.
Now, illegal aliens should be rounded up and charged accordingly, tried, convicted and deported. Due process and all that.
She is going to earn her bona fides with the radical leftist nutjob community by doing something that will quickly get slapped down by SCOTUS.
The left is in full rebellion. The Constitution and the rule of law are out the window for them. Even their judges ignore it.
With this in mind do we send 0bama’s queer traitor back to the pen?
Exactly.
If she doesn’t accept it, she needs to be removed.
Judge Susan Bolton = Clinton appointee
Communist Judges. Rope. Some assembly required.
Hi. Let’s read the beginning of Amendment 14...
All persons Born or Naturalized in the United States...
No, they have zero Constitutional rights.
5.56mm
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