Frustrated by the contrasting views expressed here

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4. Some clarity from Robert Reich

Trump’s pardon to Sheriff Joe Arpaio violates the Constitituion and the rule of law. Add this to the list of Trump's impeachable offenses.

1. Arpaio wasn’t convicted “for doing his job,” as Trump said at his Phoenix rally last Tuesday. He was convicted for doing the opposite of his job. He violated the law and then ignored court orders to stop violating it.

2. The Constitution requires that a president faithfully execute the law. Pardoning a sheriff for disobeying federal law is not faithfully executing the law.

3. Pardons are typically granted either to provide mercy or correct a miscarriage of justice or on more general grounds of public policy. None fits here. Arpaio hasn't even yet been sentenced. And his flagrant abuses of office to search and jail Latinos violated public policy and worsened race relations.

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