"Joe Arpaio steadfastly enforced the law while the Obama administration rewarded illegal immigration and even (Immigration and Customs Enforcement) agents to break the law. A pardon is therefore appropriate"
-- Kansas Secretary of State, Kris Kobach
"Arpaio's pardon gives the middle finger to courts and the Constitution and signals total contempt for the rule of law and for human decency."; Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe