Now it's time for our daily Bloomberg lab reef exploring legal issues in the news, and there was speculation that President Trump would part in Arizona Sheriff Joe R. Pio at a rally in Phoenix Tuesday night. Her Pio was found guilty of criminal contempt after defying a judge's order
to end traffic patrols targeting suspected undocumented immigrants. The President did not part in our Pio that night, but today Bloomberg Law host Jing Grosso and Michael Best discussed the possibility with Mark Ostler, professor at St. Thomas School of Law. Mark tell us what our pios stands for in the communities he has policed. Yeah, he's very controversial, and he's someone that you know, expressly invited confrontation with the Hispanic community in in the Phoenix area. Um, and he got it.
You know that he um organized special projects, for example, uh, targeting areas where people were picking up day laborers. Um, we're going to be uh, you know. And and then of course enforcing Arizona's laws regarding immigration that were later largely struck down. Um. And so he's someone that invited controversy in the same way that that Donald Trump has
and was divisive in much the same way. So if he was just if he was enforcing Arizona's laws, he didn't write the laws and he didn't strike up down. How what is the trouble that our Peo got in had to do um with with racial and ethnic profiling specifically, and there was a pretty damning report from the Department of Justice. Uh in back I think that was. And then you had the contempt. There was an order that was put in place by the court out there. He was held in contempt to that and then held in
criminal contempt just back in July. There's a process for presidential pardons. Has that been followed in any respect in our Pio's case? Um, From what our Pio has said, he said that he did not seek a pardon. That means that he hasn't submitted a petition. The rules are are pretty clear about how this is supposed to work. Now. Of course, it's a constitutional power of the president, and that means that the president has the ability not to follow the rules if he doesn't want to. However, it
does um definitely, Mark. This is something different than what we usually see with clemency and that's Mark Ostler, professor at St. Thomas School of Law, speaking with Bloomberg Law host Jing Grosso and Michael Best. You can listen to Bloomberg Law Wait days at one pm Wall Street Time here on Bloomberg Radio