By Larry Klayman
Newsmax
August 28, 2017
Sheriff Joe Arpaio is a true American patriot who I am proud to call my friend. He was also my client when he singlehandedly, in a lawsuit which I filed on his behalf, was the first to challenge the executive order of former President Barack Obama effectively granting amnesty to over 5 million illegal immigrants. We ultimately won this legal challenge, and deep-sixed Obama’s illegal amnesty, the matter going all the way to the Supreme Court. The man has guts, and this is why he is called “America’s Sheriff.”
But last fall, Sheriff Joe was victimized by a political hit job at the hands of a federal judge in the district of Arizona. This jurist, G. Murray Snow, had previously told his wife that he would “destroy” Arpaio in a civil contempt lawsuit brought by the ACLU and its counsel Covington & Burling, not coincidentally the law firm of Eric Holder, Obama’s former attorney general. In front of witnesses in a Phoenix restaurant, Snow’s wife then loudly boasted about her husband’s threat.