the ‘convicted felon’ issue. Are convicted felons in Arizona allowed to keep firearms?
ETA I guess this questions been answered
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“if granted after conviction, it removes the penalties and disabilities and restores him to all his civil rights. It gives him a new credit and capacity. There is only this limitation to its operation: it does not restore offices forfeited, or property of interests vested in others in consequence of the conviction and judgment.”
in the latrine would be appropriate
But but…that judge was making rulings against me and not letting me stonewall the Trump University plaintiffs…because he was a MEXICAN and he knows I am STRONG on the border (whatever the fuck that means in his fucked up stupid head)…and that judge in Hawaii, which is an island, so it is surrounded by water, ya know…and this judge who really treated Joe Arpaio horribly she probably hates me because of my totally innocent Locker Room Talk…
Maybe a misspelling of scared woman?
You seem to have forgotten that this was a unanimous decision of the eight member court. Perhaps you’ve just suppressed it. This was clearly a matter of the law, not partisanship. Had it been a matter of partisanship, the court would have been deadlocked 4-4.
Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
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which his attorney said he thinks he would have won.
If that is the case, then you should say “thanks, but no thanks” to the pardon.
Please do not confuse a pardon with a “not guilty” ruling. They are NOT the same thing.
Does this mean that Arpaio cannot run for office? I hope so, because he’s a festering menace to civil society.
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It am sure that the Justices can find ways to justify anything they want once the have made up their mind. The 8-0 decision says nothing. Even Dredd Scott had a 7-2 majority and the 5-4 split on Bush v. Gore was awful nonetheless.
There is lot of horse trading that happens in the Supreme Court. Justices yield to their colleagues on their pet cases. In this case, the other justices were simply being “nice” to Justice Roberts who was relatively new.
What McDonnell did in office was horrendous and this was the Court way to legalize bribery immediately after ruling that money was free speech and corporations were people/
In my opinion, John Roberts went out of the way to rescue McDonnell. I don’t believe Roberts’ motivation were pure or purely legal.
You understand how perilous a journey it is to be a woman.
I think that once more and more Democrats use the Supreme Court’s Governor Forced Transvaginal Prober decision to fight off corruption charges, the Roberts’ Supreme Court will reverse itself. I am more cynical about that decision than about Citizens United.
Maddow pounded and pounded on the entire McDonnell family and their greed (including making up that vile name), so maybe we came to expect more punitive treatment, because, after all, we saw it on the television night after night. Reversal of a SCOTUS decision? Only after they reverse Bush v Gore.
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The thousands of Americans convicted and pardoned by Presidents over the years will be following this closely.
This directly conflicts with pardon info on the doing page.
I rate the chances that rbg traded her vote at approximately zero.
If Arpaio is successful, the next logical move is to simply pardon someone before the charges are filed - a pre-emptive pardon. does the constitution specifically state that a pre-condition to a pardon is a conviction? why not bad acts - or allegations of bad acts?
Anything that makes Arpaio miserable is good.
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So he’s gonna appeal to the Ninth Circuit? Yeah, good luck with that.
Homicidal racist trash. We need to remember how many people died needlessly on Arpaio’s watch.
“The power to pardon is an executive prerogative of mercy, not of judicial record-keeping,” she said. “The pardon undoubtedly spared (the) defendant from any punishment that might otherwise have been imposed. It did not, however, revise the historical facts of this case.”
Absolutely love this, trump keeps showing his disregard and lack of respect for the court system, singling out judges, etc. and this judge threw his asinine behavior back in his face.