‘Prosecuting’ Trump Over a Pardon
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The Ninth Circuit again decides it can hijack presidential power.
Progressives claim to fear a lawless President Trump, but in their panicky response many are resorting to lawlessness themselves. Behold the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals’ appointment this week of a “special prosecutor” to challenge the President’s pardon power.
Last summer Mr. Trump pardoned deposed Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio, who had been convicted of criminal contempt for defying a federal judge’s orders. The President’s power to pardon the sheriff is indisputable under Article II of the Constitution, even if the pardon was unwise for inviting resistance to judicial rulings. And now two Ninth Circuit judges are matching the sheriff’s contempt for the law.
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