Pardon breaks with tradition
Gregory Korte, USA TODAY
Published 10:08 p.m. ET Aug. 25, 2017 | Updated 10:15 p.m. ET Aug. 25, 2017
... Arpaio didn't meet the Justice Department guidelines for a pardon. His conviction wasn't five years old, he hadn't expressed remorse and he hadn't even applied to the Office of Pardon Attorney.
The day before, press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said the president would follow a "thorough and standard process" in considering the pardon. That process usually requires seven layers of review and an FBI background check ...
"This is just the most in-your-face gesture imaginable for the pardon power," said Mark Rozell, dean of the public policy school at George Mason University and a pardon scholar. "We're going to pardon someone who hasn’t admitted that what he's done is a crime, and has shown no remorse" ...
"This looks more like a stunt," <P.S. Ruckman Jr., a political scientist who has studied the history of presidential pardons> said. "He’ll get the mileage out of it, and the publicity, and rile up the base" ...
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/08/25/analysis-trump-bold-arpaio-pardon-breaks-presidential-tradition/597547001/
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