Joe Arpaio's illegal-immigration crackdown made him a polarizing figure and an early ally of President Trump. (Meg Kelly/The Washington Post)THE MORNING PLUM:It is welcome that some Republicans stepped forward to condemn President Trump’s pardon of former Maricopa County (Ariz.) sheriff Joe Arpaio. This would be for the good of the country, of course, because it might help avert a full-blown constitutional crisis. We have since learned that Trump had planned to pardon Arpaio, a campaign loyalist, well before there was any conviction, and that he viewed this as a way to please his base. “When it comes to this president’s trampling of our constitutional norms, silence is complicity,” Schiff told me.

Source: Washington Post August 28, 2017 14:11 UTC