Ward, weird. I didn't question the legality of the pardon. I questioned the morality of it, and the ethics of it, and the message it sends. What you call "minor" and "misdemeanor" was openly defying a federal court order, openly rounding up U.S. citizens and detaining them, for hours and sometimes days, for appearing hispanic. More than 1 million hispanic U.S. citizens live in that county. He was treating them like second-class citizens, subject to search and detainment for their appearance alone. If you condone that kind of behavior then you have a very different interpretation of equal protection under the law, and civil rights, and the U.S. constitution, than I do. I hope for your sake you never have to live under the threat that our fellow citizens had to put up with under Arpaio. Shame on trump for his callous disregard for the Americans he is supposed to represent.