The country received a strong reminder of the point this weekend, when the Washington Post reported that Trump allegedly asked Attorney General to drop the criminal prosecution of Joe Arpaio, the former Maricopa County sheriff who was convicted of criminal contempt last month for flouting the order of a federal judge to stop detaining people he merely suspected of being undocumented immigrants; when the Department refused, Trump decided to pardon him if and when his own Department won a… [read post]