Source: The Atlantic
by Paul Rosenzweig
“Over the past several years, courageous Americans have risked their careers and perhaps even their liberty in an effort to stop Donald Trump’s return to power. Our collective failure to avoid that result now gives Trump an opportunity to exact revenge on them. President Joe Biden, in the remaining two months of his term in office, can and must prevent this by using one of the most powerful tools available to the president: the pardon power. … Gerald Ford gave Richard Nixon a ‘full, free, and absolute pardon’ for any offense that he ‘has committed or may have committed or taken part in during the period from January 20, 1969 through August 9, 1974.’ If Biden were willing, he could issue a set of pardons similar in scope and form to Trump’s critics, and they would be enforced by the courts as a protection against retaliation.” (11/13/24)