Opinion | On Pardons, Trump Is Flipping the Founders' Vision on its Head
A significant part of his argument rested on the view that clemency was particularly important during and after riots and rebellions. As he explained in Federalist 74: “The desirability of conferring on the President the power of pardons has, if I am not mistaken, been disputed only in relation to the crime of treason… [T]there … Read more