Source: The UnPopulist
by Gabriel Schoenfeld
“In our contemporary era, there have been a slew of controversies surrounding pardons, often issued by lame duck presidents. Gerald Ford’s pardon of Richard Nixon is the most famous of these, but there is also George H.W. Bush’s pardon of the Iran-Contra defendants, Bill Clinton’s pardon of the financier Marc Rich, and George W. Bush’s commutation of I. Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby (subsequently granted a full pardon by Trump). Joe Biden does not escape scrutiny and judgment. … Is there anything that can be done to help us exit our pardon dystopia? As Trump’s second term proceeds, things are likely to get far worse.” (03/18/26)
https://www.theunpopulist.net/p/the-constitutions-sweeping-pardon