After President Donald Trump issued a pardon for former Sheriff Joe Arpaio, the district court judge overseeing the case has approved Arpaio’s request to cancel his sentencing hearing.
But Judge Susan Bolton hasn’t completely thrown out the conviction, Arizona Central reported.
Arpaio was set to face sentencing in October for his criminal contempt-of-court conviction for ignoring a court order to stop holding people solely on suspicion of being undocumented.
Friday evening, the White House announced that Trump had granted a pardon for the controversial ex-sheriff who has been a Trump supporter since the early days of his campaign.
On Tuesday, Bolton ordered that Arpaio and the Department of Justice, which is prosecuting the case, file a memo on why the case should or shouldn’t be thrown out.
She scheduled an oral argument hearing for both sides to make their case on Oct. 4, which is one day before Arpaio was supposed to be sentenced.
“We look forward to the hearing, and hope that the court will make the appropriate ruling,” one of Arpaio’s attorneys, Mark Goldman, said.
The judge’s move comes just one day after Arpaio’s attorneys called out media companies for reporting that the ex-sheriff was convicted of racial profiling. They said the conviction had nothing to do with race.
Yes, put it on the record…Excellent…
Not directly, no. It has to do with dingleberry flagrantly ignoring a court order to stop using his position to impose his racism on Arizona’s Latino community.
So now we know: Trump’s very Nixonian promise to restore “Law and Order” doesn’t apply to Republican’t WASPs…
(Or maybe, when Trump promised that, he was under the impression that his favorite TV show had been cancelled. It’s hard to tell with this guy…)
How can Arpaio seek dismissal of the case? Isn’t acceptance of the pardon an admission of guilt? Had he fought the conviction through appeal after sentencing, he might still be able to argue his innocence but accepting a pardon used to mean that he was guilty. A pardon is not exoneration but mercy.
“But Your Honor, transitively the laws and their customary interpretation don’t apply to Sheriff Joe, either!!. Because MAGA!!”
Trump: Obama’s judges are running rampant. Or they must have Rapist blood in them. Not Real Amerikans.