Reply To: Limiting Presidential Pardons

To Health: No, I did not say any terrorists gets out of jail when he hits age 60. I am too tired, or lazy, to explain the typical process followed and the reasons for granting pardons. I am not even sure that it was followed in the case of Oscar Lopez Rivera. But you probably know the process, and the reasons, but will deny that they are appropriate and will insist, correctly, that they lack the force of law.

But what is clear to anyone willing to see it is that Trump’s use of the pardon power is the promotion of his lawless supporters, not sympathy or forgiveness or chesed.