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A pardon also does not protect the recipient from civil liability for the acts for which he or she was pardoned.

 

And, whose "crimes" was he covering for?

Dick Armitage?

 

Duh. Neither does an acquittal.

 

Amazing to me how much people are hung up on the pardon. Is Joe Arpaio an unrepentant racist asshole who used the authority of his office to violate the constitutional rights of citizens and non-citizens in his community? Undoubtedly. Does that change after the pardon? No.

Sure, it shows that our president has contempt for the constitution and the rule of law, but we already knew that. It is also indisputably within his power to use the pardon in this way.

This is the equivalent of the NCAA vacating a team's record, including championships, because of an ineligible player. The record may have been wiped, but we all still know what happened.

 

Oh, you and all your "expertise" ...

 

Um, it means he doesn't go to jail for his crimes?

 

He wasn't going to do anywhere near enough time to equal justice for his actions to begin with. The maximum sentence would have been six months.

 

It's unlikely he would have spent any time in jail.

The maximum possible sentence was 6 months. He's 85-years-old, and he had a good case on appeal.

How ex-Sheriff Joe Arpaio wound up facing jail time, before Trump pardoned him

 

Six months is more than zero months. Now it means he's going completely unpunished for his crimes. That's why people are upset. It's the equivalent of asking why the family of a murder victim is upset that the murderer got pardoned. Most people expect people who do bad things to be punished for them. It's kind of how society works.

 

There is not a rolly-eye emoticon large enough for this reply.

 

Trump isn't the owner or developer of the property, and the workers are employed by a local construction company, but, hey, scandal:

 

Somebody needs to smoke Chachi and his stupid bitch wife.

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