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These deeply weird preventive pardons are an abuse of power in two ways: First, the farcical overreach of the type of pardon. Second, the nepotism of who gets it.
Like jury nullification, presidential pardons are a cool feature, an emergency power where a more immediate and personal instance of power can instantly correct a malfunction of the slower legal system or the even slower legislation behind it. Add a human element of mercy to a cold process machinery. But that's not how it has been used for over half a century. It's not an emergency power, it's routine, and the scope is no longer to just revert a court's final decision.
Like jury nullification, presidential pardons are a cool feature, an emergency power where a more immediate and personal instance of power can instantly correct a malfunction of the slower legal system or the even slower legislation behind it. Add a human element of mercy to a cold process machinery. But that's not how it has been used for over half a century. It's not an emergency power, it's routine, and the scope is no longer to just revert a court's final decision.