So Sheriff Joe got a pardon.
Frankly, that shouldn’t shock anyone. Trump kicked off his campaign by tagging Mexicans as murderers and rapists and drove it home with a barrage of attacks against the sanctity of the judicial system by ripping the “so-called judges.” It would actually be a stunning failure to deliver on his campaign promises if he let some radical liberal — a role played by George W. Bush appointee Judge G. Murray Snow in the bizarre reality we find ourselves slogging through — punish the country’s foremost authority on flagrantly abusing the human rights of Latinx.
One organization at the forefront of that fight — and a group with a long historyof battling Sheriff Joe’s skulduggery — is the Center for Constitutional Rights. Founded in 1966 by folks like Arthur Kinoy and William Kunstler dedicated to “advancing and protecting the rights guaranteed by the U.S. Constitution and the Universal Declaration of Human Rights,” CCR commits itself to the “creative use of law as a positive force for social change.” That’s all well and good, but how does anyone with such a lofty mission keep on top of everything going on right now?