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Presidential "Pardons"

Publication Date : March 20, 2020
Related Categories: corruption, crime, Democracy, History, law, Op Ed, Pardons, Politics, Presidents
Publications: Register Pajaronian
The power to pardon felons is vested in the Constitution. It is the one inheritance from the history of monarchy that we have, but unlike kings with unlimited rights to pardon, presidents have this power only for federal offences. Pardoning is enmeshed in norms. It has been understood that a president should not pardon someone for his own political motives. Compassion or policy motives were the usual reasons that a president pardoned a convict.

President Obama, for example, addres more...

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