Federal judge's order confirms scheduled contempt hearing for Arpaio

[Newsjock]

Source: Arizona Republic

A federal judge presiding over a long running racial-profiling case against the Maricopa County Sheriff's Office has officially ordered a civil contempt hearing for Sheriff Joe Arpaio.

... Thursday's order specifies which topics sheriff's officials will answer to at the April 21-24 evidentiary hearing:

- Evidence that deputies failed to abide by U.S. District Judge G. Murray Snow's preliminary injunction to stop enforcing federal immigration law. Arpaio and several top aides must show why they should not be held in contempt.

- Evidence that sheriff's officials did not disclose all required information in pre-trial proceedings, including deputies' audio-recording devices.

- Why the office failed to follow oral orders given in May.

Read more: http://www.azcentral.com/story/news/arizona/2015/02/13/federal-judges-order-confirms-scheduled-contempt-hearing-arpaio/23337957/

[Stuart G]

1. Is Arpaio above the law?

My guess is that he does think he is above the law. He may think that he is the law. So, if that is what he thinks, then no one is going to tell the "law" what the "law" is. Perhaps a year in one of his own prisons with "his prisoners" might teach him something. But...I doubt it.

[BlueCaliDem]

3. Of course not. But as a good Republican, he believes he's a dictator and he alone

gets to dictate what laws to follow and what laws to dismiss.

[Thinkingabout]

2. put him in jail with pink underwear.