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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsBREAKING: Joe Arpaio of Arizona convicted of crime for refusing to stop targeting immigrants
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and the good news keeps coming......
spanone
(136,008 posts)Maraya1969
(22,541 posts)(I just think this is worse or maybe I didn't understand the wording of the OP. I just wanted to stick this up here in case)
Former Sheriff Joe Arpaio committed a crime by defying a court order to stop detaining suspected undocumented immigrants, a judge ruled on Monday, in the latest rebuke for a once-popular politician who was voted out of office last year.
United States District Judge Susan R. Bolton found Mr. Arpaio, 85, guilty of criminal contempt of court, a misdemeanor punishable by up to six months in jail. Mr. Arpaios lawyers said he would appeal.
The conviction comes as sheriffs are under pressure to play a major role in the Trump administrations immigration crackdown. The president has threatened to withhold federal funds from local governments that do not cooperate by holding jail inmates for deportation, and immigrant advocates have pushed back with lawsuits charging that such detentions violate constitutional rights.
onetexan
(13,090 posts)bad karma always comes back to you like a boomerang. Good riddance. I'm sure the inmates, many of whom he probably locked up, will have a field day with him.
panader0
(25,816 posts)Too bad the tent city is gone. He would look good in pink with green bologna.
I hope he has to do at least a little time behind bars.
MyOwnPeace
(16,959 posts)The picture of him in "the pinks" would have been worthy of a front page cover of SO many magazines and papers!
underpants
(183,151 posts)Will someone pony up some money to take this up the court chain?
malaise
(269,498 posts)Rec
njhoneybadger
(3,910 posts)madokie
(51,076 posts)naked in a rubber room with a drain and just hose him off when he shits down both legs
no sympathy for the bastard from me
Tommy_Carcetti
(43,235 posts)sunonmars
(8,656 posts)Astroman
(16 posts)wryter2000
(46,153 posts)Great day to be posting here.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)like he won't be stuck in a pair of pink underwear and left outside in a cage in 110 degree heat, or anything.
Right?
Va Lefty
(6,252 posts)superpatriotman
(6,257 posts)I'm sure he will land softly and fail upwards.
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Hekate
(91,181 posts)Probably should modify that statement.
HAB911
(8,973 posts)I really hope he spends time in his own jail
Stinky The Clown
(67,855 posts)dalton99a
(81,730 posts)Adrahil
(13,340 posts)Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)IronLionZion
(45,700 posts)he has treated countless suspects he's arrested. So as rough as possible. And toss him in general population with the prisoners he has arrested. They can really bond together. Maybe he can stay out in tent city, in August. And wear the pink uniform.
What an asshole
George II
(67,782 posts)....the "paddy wagon" (obsolete term considered anti-Irish), don't protect his head.
IronLionZion
(45,700 posts)He looks like he needs to be treated like a criminal.
Doc Coco
(58 posts)in the hot desert might just .....
AgadorSparticus
(7,963 posts)SCantiGOP
(13,881 posts)To fly to Arizona and transport him to his tent in the desert where he can serve his sentence.
47of74
(18,470 posts)JoeOtterbein
(7,703 posts)Crowman2009
(2,512 posts)It's around the 1:06 mark:
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Gothmog
(146,202 posts)Downtown Hound
(12,618 posts)Hmmm...where have I heard rhetoric like that before? Oh yeah, from you Joe. Enjoy what you've reaped, you piece of shit.
Bradshaw3
(7,560 posts)Hopefully he'll get some jail time.
niyad
(114,176 posts)wryter2000
(46,153 posts)in a tent in 110 degree heat.
itsrobert
(14,157 posts)?
Plucketeer
(12,882 posts)Pardon him and get him in the lineup of White House dispensibles. "Arpio! You're up next. Stand here please ->
UTUSN
(70,848 posts)Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,785 posts)his fellow criminals. There were always failures of the justice system, but any pardons Trump gives will be flagrant reminders of who is and isn't held accountable in the USA.
Gidney N Cloyd
(19,847 posts)I suppose if it was a state conviction the Gov there would pardon him.
UTUSN
(70,848 posts)StarryNite
(9,484 posts)Amimnoch
(4,558 posts)Based on the Republican love of retributive justice and "punishment fitting the crime", let's just pull his citizenship, and deport him from the country.
(disclaimer: of course I say this in jest, and know there is no legal course to go that route)
rock
(13,218 posts)rock
(13,218 posts)I'm a little hard of hearing.
niyad
(114,176 posts)Iggo
(47,625 posts)And just yesterday I got an email from "Mrs Joe Arpaio" asking for donations to pay his legal bills.
"Mrs Joe Arpaio" assured me that "even $2500.00" (to something called a "political action committee" would go a long way.
MyOwnPeace
(16,959 posts)Ask her which tent city jail to send a check to!
Iggo
(47,625 posts)kairos12
(12,916 posts)Brother Buzz
(36,522 posts)But then again, anything's possible with Commander Cuckoo-Bananas in charge
Bengus81
(6,944 posts)Bladewire
(381 posts)I think Trump will pardon him. What do you think?
maxrandb
(15,435 posts)in a pink prison jumpsuit in an non-air conditioned tent in the 120 degree AZ heat!!!!
lpbk2713
(42,784 posts)See how long he can handle it.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)Rotten Bologna sandwiches with sawdust and glass shavings, in 120 degree heat, isn't it?
http://www.thedailybeast.com/inmates-left-to-rot-in-120-degree-heat
raven mad
(4,940 posts)burrowowl
(17,664 posts)Sunlei
(22,651 posts)lpbk2713
(42,784 posts)He had none. Put him in a tent at over 100° temps and make him eat green baloney.
Sounds fair to me.
Sunlei
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