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Contempt for Court 2

Prior to the event, Noah Feldman wrote of the implications of Donald Trump’s (then rumored) pardoning racist bigot-panderer Joe Arpaio. A snippet (emphasis added):

But it would be an altogether different matter if Trump pardoned Arpaio for willfully refusing to follow the Constitution and violating the rights of people inside the U.S.

Such a pardon would reflect outright contempt for the judiciary, which convicted Arpaio for his resistance to its authority.

Every day of Trumpery ups the volume of vile and further erodes the rule of law.

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2 comments

  1. Crprod

    August 27, 2017 at 1:19 pm

    When I was in school in the fifties, which people seem to regard as the original of MAGA, my teachers told me “America is a country of laws, not people.” I guess that’s gone to the same place as strong unions, high pay for workers, and high taxes on upper incomes.

     
  2. Frank

    August 27, 2017 at 10:39 pm

    I cannot argue with that.

    If Ike were alive today, he would not be accepted as a Republican.

    I’m a Southern Boy and I know bigots when I see them. Nixon’s legacy lives on in making the Republican Party a home for bigots.

    A long time ago, I waved a picket sign in Richard Nixon’s face when he appeared at my alma mater. The sign said, “Nixon is soft on Fascism.”

    Little did I know how prescient that sign would turn out to be.