Episode 3: Obstruction & Pardons

After Trump by Lawfare

Apr 22, 202132:52Government & Organizations

The pardon power was designed to be a tool for correcting wrongs. Any system of justice applied to a whole nation is going to have failures. A pardon is there to correct miscarriages of justice—and injustice. It was alwa...

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