The pardon power is the least constrained & most monarchical of all the presidential powers. Not coincidentally, it is the power that Trump has most consistently misused.
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Right. Trump defenders regularly try to disappear the very idea that a power, even if legally exercised, can be abused.
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It involves discernment and ethical thinking, a sense of right and wrong (norms) which Trump doesn’t have. Being lawless means nothing restrains you. No higher authority other than your own. But God. His justice will prevail, I trust in that.
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The Blago pardon is definitely a bad look. But it’s easy to see the statement DJT is trying to make.
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We should have a
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