Former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaioâthe sheriff who was so racist that he was convicted of criminal contempt of court because he couldnât stop being racist and later pardoned by the president because he considered the former sheriffâs racism a part of his jobârefused to call Arizona Sen. John McCain a hero because heâŚ
Itâs Monday, folks, so you know what that means? It means that the GOP are up to their usual routine of rousing racism in America and playing themselves on national television.
Updated: Wednesday, June 6, 2018, 3:53 p.m. EDT: President Donald Trump commuted Alice Marie Johnsonâs sentence on Wednesday, and she will be released from prison after spending 21 years behind bars for a first-time, nonviolent drug offense. Trump didnât give Johnson a full pardon, which would have cleared her record.âŚ
Former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio refuses to die out of the news cycle. In addition to running to represent the state in the U.S. Senate despite having been convicted of a crime, Arpaio seems insistent on dying on the hill of racism. He recently swore to resume his already debunked conspiracy theory surroundingâŚ
A Republican Holocaust denier shunned by his own party will be the GOP nominee for a congressional seat representing a heavily Democratic Chicago suburb. Arthur Jones, a former member of the American Nazi Party, managed to secure the nomination by running unopposed in Tuesdayâs primary.
The man whose policies resulted in constitutional violations, discrimination and even death sidestepped these charges on national TV by doubling down on the Barack Obama Birther conspiracy, claiming that he has âevidence.â Despite the fact thatâgiven ample opportunity to show his supposed proofâhe never does, theâŚ
Joe Arpaio, a former Arizona sheriff so racist that even when he was threatened with jail for unlawfully targeting and racially profiling Latinos in Arizona, he couldnât stop and was eventually thrown in jail, is running for the U.S. Senate. Thatâs because equally deplorable President Donald Trump had him pardonedâŚ
Now that bigotry and racism is house-sitting 1600 Pennsylvania Ave., it seems fitting that ex-Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaioâwho was so vile and xenophobic that the courts ordered him to stop targeting Latinos in Arizona, but he refused and was sent to prison until the xenophobe in chief pardoned himâmayâŚ
In 1993, now-former Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio opened his infamous Tent City outdoor jail, supposedly as an answer to the problem of overcrowding in Phoenixâs jails. Tent City was a source of controversy for the entirety of its existence, and this weekend, it finally closed for good, just 10 months shyâŚ
Former Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio will officially have his criminal record scrubbed clean after a federal judge accepted his presidential pardon Wednesday.
Thanks to a pardon from President Donald Trump, Sheriff Joe Arpaio is now a free man. And in a recent interview given to the San Jose Mercury News, Arpaio has pledged to keep up the fight for one of Trumpâs old pet causes: searching for former President Barack Obamaâs birth certificate.
When the president pardoned former Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio during the middle of both Hurricane Harvey and a Trump media dump Friday night, many speculated that it was a bone being thrown to his base to appease it after the likely forced resignation of deputy assistant Sebastian Gorka. But was thereâŚ
Recently, Sheriff Joe Arpaio was crowned some kind of racist folk hero, keeper of the Barack Obama Birther theory and all-around example of an abusive cop. So of course, our president thought him a man deserving of a pardon.
Updated Friday, Aug. 25, 2017, 8:30 p.m. EDT: On Friday, Donald Trump gave a presidential pardon to the former sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz., who was convicted of intentionally defying a judgeâs order in an immigration case that has cost the state of Arizona millions in legal-defense bills because of theâŚ
"America's Toughest Sheriff" is no more.
Longtime Maricopa County, Ariz., Sheriff Joe Arpaio was officially charged with criminal contempt of court Tuesday for ignoring a judge's order to stop profiling Latinos in his signature immigration patrols, the Associated Press reports.
Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who has made a name for himself as a tough lawman in Phoenix, will be charged with criminal contempt of court for defying a judgeâs orders to stop immigration patrols.
