Joe Arpaio learns that he is not above the law - by the WaPo Editorial Board

[DonViejo]

THE ESSENCE of Joe Arpaio’s long reign as sheriff of Arizona’s Maricopa County, whose 4 million residents in and around Phoenix make it one of the nation’s biggest localities, was lawlessness masquerading as law enforcement. Blatant racial profiling, inhumane treatment of prisoners and contempt for federal court orders — this was the stuff on which Mr. Arpaio staked his relentlessly self-promoted reputation as “America’s toughest sheriff.”

Now Mr. Arpaio, who lost a reelection bid for a seventh term in the fall after voters tired of shelling out tens of millions of dollars in legal fees on his behalf, is facing a day of reckoning. In a trial that began Monday in federal court, Mr. Arpaio stands accused of criminal contempt of court for having thumbed his nose at a federal judge who ordered a halt to Mr. Arpaio’s traffic patrols, which singled out Hispanics on the basis of nothing more than their appearance, for immigration enforcement.

Lawyers for Mr. Arpaio, who is 85, have tried out an array of legal strategies in his defense, variously arguing that he did not understand the order , or that the order was ambiguous or invalid. His supporters argue that the entire case is a political vendetta orchestrated by holdovers from the Obama administration in the Justice Department.

Unfortunately for the sheriff, the most damning evidence against him are the words he himself uttered, unambiguously, after U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow, in December 2011, ordered his office to halt detentions based on nothing more than suspicion that a person might be in violation of federal immigration law. “I’m still gonna do what I’m doing,” Mr. Arpaio told the media in April 2012 . “I’m still gonna arrest illegal aliens.”

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[Gothmog]

1. We need to put Arpaio in one of his tent jails

[Joe Chi Minh]

2. ... wearing pink underwear - make it frilly - and pink

top, as in these photos :

https://www.google.co.uk/?gfe_rd=cr&ei=mm4wWIy5LcHv8Af4iJKQDA#q=arpaio+prisoners+wear+pink+

.. and mebbe any transgender amenitiies that might be available.

[jmowreader]

3. No. I don't want Arpaio to be put in one of his tent jails.

I want Arpaio sentenced to tear down his tent jails. We will hire a crew of people to help him, because an 80-year-old man can't fold a GP Large tent in the middle of the summer by himself. But he needs to be right out there, from sunrise to sunset, taking down tents, folding them up and putting them in trucks.

After he gets all the tents taken down, he can put them back up again. And when they're back up, he can take them back down. Over and over until he dies of old age.