There’s reason to be worried about the plethora of pardons from Trump and Biden

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Publish Date:

January 21, 2025

Author(s):

Cheney, Kyle

Source:

Politico

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Stanford Center for Law and History

Summary

“The pardons by outgoing President Biden and incoming President Trump yesterday signal a dangerous new era in pardoning,” said Bernadette Meyler, a constitutional law expert at Stanford University. “We haven’t seen these kind of blanket indemnifications in a long time — perhaps since Congress and President [Andrew] Johnson sparred over amnesties for members of the former Confederacy.”