The Department of Justice has been poking around Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio’s operation for so long that a lot of people have given up hope that any real action will come of it (see here, for example).
But if DOJ is ever going to move against the rogue sheriff criminally, it may finally have what it needs to do so: findings by a state Supreme Court disciplinary panel that there is evidence beyond a reasonable doubt that Arpaio and his henchmen used their office to bring bogus criminal charges against a sitting judge as part of a political power play/vendetta.
Nick Martin lays out how the explosive findings could be DOJ’s road map to bringing down Arpaio.
