Hurray for Trump! First good thing he's done in his whole stupid administration. Probably did it mostly for the wrong reasons, but hey, let's take what we can get.
Is this pardon really worse than Obama's commutation of the sentence for anti-American terrorist Oscar Rivera?
... Rivera did 35 years in prison and there are legitimate arguments for why he was sentenced improperly. This is not comparable.
Conservatives just love to wipe their ass with the Constitution and then wipe it in everyone else's face, all the while claiming they love the Constitution. ...
Arpaio was about to be sentenced improperly. Arpaio was convicted improperly. This is obvious to anyone who has examined the matter with any intellectual honesty. There simply aren't any legitimate arguments that this was a proper conviction. The judge who convicted him was wiping her ass with the Constitution. The appellate courts that would have upheld it were just going to wipe it in everyone else's face. Pardoning him was the only effective remedy against despotism. What the bejesus is wrong with you? What the bejesus is wrong with all of you who approve of that conviction? If you're going to accuse your opponents of wiping their asses with the Constitution, first you might want to bloody well read it. Exactly which part of
"The Trial of all Crimes, except in Cases of Impeachment, shall be by Jury"
do you people not understand? Seriously, explain yourselves. Are you barking about the Constitution while simply wallowing in complete ignorance of the Constitutional principles that are at stake here? Are you imbeciles? Or are you simply so corrupt that you equate "Constitutional" with "I get what I want"?
Here's what the ACLU had to say about summary trials for criminal contempt.
https://aclu.procon.org/view.additional-resource.php?resourceID=003397
Here's what Justice Black had to say about them.
https://scholar.google.com/scholar_case?case=6886651914045843455&hl=en&as_sdt=6&as_vis=1&oi=scholarr
Which one of you has both the balls and the intellectual dishonesty to tell us they're wrong?