NY Times Is Suddenly Very Concerned About Executive Pardons

At least when it comes to one person, the NYT Editorial Board is upset

Say No to Sheriff Joe Arpaio, Mr. Trump
By pardoning an official who showed contempt for a judge, the president would show contempt for American courts.

It would be difficult for President Trump, who has insulted judges and tried to interfere with a federal investigation, to show much more disrespect for the rule of law. But if he makes good on his implicit vow to pardon Joe Arpaio, the disgraced former sheriff of Maricopa County, Ariz., Mr. Trump would be scorning the Constitution itself.

Mr. Arpaio, an anti-immigrant hard-liner who served 24 years in office before voters tossed him out last November, was convicted in July of criminal contempt of court for disregarding a federal judge’s orders to stop detaining people based solely on the suspicion that they were in the country illegally.

So, Sheriff Joe was attempting to uphold the laws of the U.S. that state that people who are here illegally should not be here. And ignored a SJW judge who was attempting to protect the trespassing aliens. Now, let’s be honest, Joe should not have disregarded the judges order in such a manner, he should have continued the legal fight. But, this was a minor thing, which could see him jailed for no more than 6 months.

But, what of another person?

President Obama’s Last Chance to Show Mercy

President Obama did the right thing in granting clemency to Chelsea Manning, who was sentenced to 35 years in prison for leaking huge amounts of classified information about American diplomatic and military activities in 2010. Ms. Manning, who has served nearly seven years, is to be released on May 17.

Of course, it was Mr. Obama’s overly aggressive Justice Department that sought, and in 2013 won, that absurdly long sentence in the first place. The average sentence for those convicted of leaking classified material is one to three years.

Why, yes, that was also the NYTEB. Manning earned that long sentence for the amount of classified information leaked and how damaging it was. He was convicted on 19 felony charges, 12 of those being under the Espionage Act and for theft.

But, Manning was a darling of the uber-left, especially as he came out as gender confused.

Regardless, there is a vast difference between what Sheriff Joe did and what Bradley did. And you can see the leftwing bias in the NYTEB in how they treat the two issues.