Reply To: Limiting Presidential Pardons

To Health: Your Google research establishes that Rivera committed many horrible crimes, was unrepentant at the time of his convictions, and was considered unrepentant by the family of one of his victims. That would make his original sentence – I think it was 45 years – reasonable (or too light, in my opinion). I knew all that when I commented on his pardon.
But we do not know how he behaved (or did not behave) in prison or any other reason why he was pardoned, but we do know it came after he got old, and after he served 36 years. That’s why I do not believe that his pardon was inappropriate.

Someone said, facetiously, poor Jeffrey Epstein, if he just hung on (pun intended?) for another year, Trump would have pardoned him. I am not sure Trump would have pardoned Epstein, but neither am sure Trump would not have.