Why Donald Trump pardoned the unpardonable Joe Arpaio

In pardoning the former sheriff of Maricopa County, our president sided with a lawless renegade over our federal judiciary and the constitution itselfWho will go first, President Trump or our constitutional order? The question presses after the president’s most recent affront to our system of governance, his unpardonable pardon of former Maricopa County, Arizona sheriff Joe Arpaio, announced last night in a presidential tweet. This is hardly an ordinary exercise of the power to pardon, gra