Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) criticized President Trump’s decision to pardon former Maricopa County, Arizona, Sheriff Joe Arpaio Friday. Here again is another STFU moment for the RINO from Arizona.
McCain stated that it “undermines his claim for the respect of the rule of law.”
In a released statement:
Mr. Arpaio was found guilty of criminal contempt for continuing to illegally profile Latinos living in Arizona based on their perceived immigration status in violation of a judge’s orders. The President has the authority to make this pardon, but doing so at this time undermines his claim for the respect of the rule of law as Mr. Arpaio has shown no remorse for his actions.
This a great response seen in other comments:
Leave it to an establishment politician like McCain to get it all mixed up. It was Obama who “undermined respect for the rule of law” by telling Arpaio to STOP ENFORCING IT. It was Arpaio who had so much respect for the law that he disobeyed a dictatorial president (one who undermined the law by presidential decree) and insisted upon enforcing the laws that congress had actually established.
What Arpaio showed a lack of respect for was POLICY.
Why would a judge who had any respect for the “rule of law” order Arapaio not to “detain people suspected of being ILLEGAL aliens.” If someone is suspected of breaking the law (being illegal), and you respect the law, are you not — as a sheriff — supposed to detain them long enough to see if they are breaking the law … and then lock them up until trial if they are?
Obama decreed that Arpaio was to stop enforcing the law because Obama didn’t like that law. When Arpaio kept enforcing the congressionally approved law that Obama hated, a federal judge stepped in and, by judicial decree, ordered Arpaio to stop enforcing the law; but Arpaio, as a bold patriot with huge respect for the law, was willing to take on the dictatorial president and a federal judge in order to continue his sworn duty of enforcing the rule of law.
When your superiors order you to break the law, you have a civic disability to disobey them and stay with the rule of law, instead of the rule of decree.
Trump did the right thing here.