Legal groups move to challenge Trump's Arpaio pardon
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/09/11/trump-arpaio-pardon-challenge-242562
Two advocacy groups moved on Monday to challenge Donald Trump's pardon of controversial former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio, alleging that the president's move was unconstitutional because it undermined the power of the federal judiciary. ...
The power to pardon is one of the least limited powers granted to the President in the Constitution. The only limits mentioned in the Constitution are that pardons are limited to offenses against the United States (i.e., not civil or state cases), and that they cannot affect an impeachment process. A reprieve is the commutation or lessening of a sentence already imposed; it does not affect the legal guilt of a person. A pardon, however, completely wipes out the legal effects of a conviction. A pardon can be issued from the time an offense is committed, and can even be issued after the full sentence has been served. It cannot, however, be granted before an offense has been committed, which would give the President the power to waive the laws.
http://www.heritage.org/constitution#!/articles/2/essays/89/pardon-power
You pathetic lil' weenies need to clean your soiled panties and start living in the real world. President Trump has the undeniable, Constitutional power to pardon Joe Arpaio - period, end of story. Get over it. Clintoon and Soetoro pardoned some highly reprehensible criminals for political purposes. We didn't like it, but we moved on. You need to grow up and do the same.
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer. It has never yet melted. ~ D.H. Lawrence
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