Appeal: Judge trashed rules to attack Sheriff Joe

A federal judge deliberately broke the rules, potentially benefiting a relative financially, overlooking and discounting his wife’s statements about his improper bias, and improperly communicated with other court officials about a case to punish “America’s toughest sheriff,” Joe Arpaio of Maricopa County, Arizona. All this according to an appeal of G. Murray Snow’s ruling by Arpaio,…