Ex-Sheriff Arpaio Back at Supreme Court (Corrected)

Former Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio is back at the Supreme Court fighting critics who want to invalidate his pardon by President Donald Trump.

Congressional Democrats, constitutional law scholars, and former Obama administration lawyers argue that presidential pardon powers don’t extend to Arpaio, who was convicted of violating a court order over his immigration enforcement practices, not a federal law.

But they may first have to get an answer on a crucial technical point that the self-described “America’s Toughest Sheriff” raised in his petition to the Supreme Court: Can federal courts appoint a special prosecutor to argue against the pardon when ...