Perkins Coie stands ready to help the Ninth Circuit find a special prosecutor to argue a contempt ruling against now-pardoned sheriff Joe Arpaio should remain on the books. But the firm’s prior work representing Hillary Clinton should give the court pause in allowing Perkins Coie a role in that decision, a dissenting judge said to an order allowing for the creation of a special prosecutor in the case.

A federal appeals court will appoint a special prosecutor to defend the ruling of a district judge in Phoenix who refused to vacate the record of former Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio after President Donald Trump pardoned him last year.