It sets an extremely dangerous precedent, and I'm sure Trump's legal team is fuming. He just rewarded a high level law enforcement officer for breaking the rules. If Arpy wanted to make a statement then he should have resigned in protest, but instead continued to violate people's civil rights. This encourages LEOs on all levels to violate the constitution as long as it's okay with their belief system.
Looks like Trump has picked up the constitution smashing right were Obama left off. Bannon is right. Whatever redeeming value his presidency had is gone, and now it's back to business as usual.
I wanted to write a response to this, but didn't want to take the time. Someone else wrote it, and it covers most of the points I wanted to make.
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2017/08/rinos_wrong_on_arpaio.htmlRINOS Wrong on ArpaioArizona Sen. John McCain’s limited understanding of the law and the Constitution was on display when he falsely claimed that President Trump’s pardon of former Maricopa County Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio undermined the rule of law. McCain was joined by his Arizona colleague, Sen. Jeff Flake, who is up for reelection in 2018.
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Indeed, as McCain acknowledges, the power of the President to pardon anyone for any reason is absolute. It cannot undermine the rule of law for the Constitution trumps, no pun intended all laws, and one can argue that the judge’s order Arpaio is said to have criminally violated is no more valid or soundly rooted in the law than the rulings that initially blocked President Trump’s temporary travel ban.
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Okay, Speaker Ryan, just whose rights are being diminished here? The rights of American citizens to have their citizenship mean something or the rights of illegal aliens who have no right to roam our streets, much less to prey on our citizens like the murdered Kate Steinle?
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Arpaio was found guilty by a Clinton-appointee after he was denied a trial by jury based on the relative minor nature of the charge, a misdemeanor punishable by six months in jail. The ruling reeks of politics, with the decision to prosecute Arpaio on profiling charges made by an incoming Obama administration bent on throwing open the nation’s borders to illegal aliens.
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Arpaio was cleverly denied a jury of his peers, a jury comprised of Arizona citizens beset by illegal aliens and the crimes they commit, according to National Center for Police Defense (NCPD) President James Fotis, who was present in the courtroom, and was highly skeptical a Phoenix jury could have ever found Arpaio guilty. He told Breitbart News:
“I sat through three days of testimony and it was clear from the beginning that the DOJ had no evidence to make their case. In fact, all of the DOJ’s witnesses made it clear that Judge Snow’s order was unclear and ambiguous. There is no way a jury would have determined that the Sheriff willfully and intentionally violated the judge’s order.”
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Perhaps if Arpaio had given away the nation’s secrets, or been an international felon like the Clinton-pardoned Marc Rich, or been a New Black Panther intimidating Philadelphia voters in 2008, McCain, Flake, and Ryan might have a case. But they don’t. Joe Arpaio was and is a patriot fighting to protect our nation’s borders from invasion and was acting in good faith in enforcing federal laws it was originally written, not as reinterpreted by a liberal judge.