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Presidential Mercy Is a Woefully Inadequate Remedy for Injustice: The Controversy Over Trump's Pardons and Commutations Highlights Longstanding Problems With Clemency Jan. 27, 2021
When Donald Trump pardoned Steve Bannon last week, the outgoing president blocked the former White H... Read More
A Trump Self-Pardon Could Be a Service to the Nation Jan. 14, 2021
For the past four years, Donald Trump has regularly flouted the Constitution, laws and basic norms o... Read More
Can the President Pardon Himself? Dec. 10, 2020
Most presidential pardons — indeed all pardons that President Donald Trump has issued — ... Read More
Stone Cold Justice: The Problems With the Federal Sentencing Guidelines Are Real and Troubling, Even in Cases That Do Not Involve the President's Pals Feb. 26, 2020
"Roger Stone Did Nothing Wrong!" proclaimed the T-shirts worn by his supporters. Federal prosecutors... Read More
Trump's Own Criminal Justice Reform Feb. 23, 2020
For decades, a small cadre of reformers pushed whichever president occupied the Oval Office to use h... Read More
The Curious Case of Roger Stone Feb. 20, 2020
Roger Stone is a gifted political consultant known for going the distance for his clients. He has wo... Read More
Under Trump, Crooked Big Shots Get a Break Feb. 20, 2020
Irving Kristol, a New York intellectual and youthful communist who became a guru of the American rig... Read More
Pardon My Turkey Dec. 02, 2019
Heavy lies the head that wears the turkey. Pres. Donald Trump pardoned two turkeys just before Thank... Read More
Court's Double-Jeopardy Ruling May Help Thwart Trump's Pardon Abuse Jun. 27, 2019
The U.S. Supreme Court last week made a little-noticed but, under the current president, potentially... Read More
Can President Trump Shoot Jim Comey? Jun. 07, 2018
Last weekend, the White House leaked a copy of a letter sent by President Donald Trump's legal team ... Read More
Trump's Lies Betray His Desperation Jun. 07, 2018
Here's what I hope Robert Mueller will conclude when he is done investigating Donald Trump's 2016 ca... Read More
Trump Grants Mercy with Little Input from Justice Department Jun. 05, 2018
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump asserted Monday that he has "the absolute right to PARDON ... Read More
Why Trump Must Think Twice Before He Pardons Flynn Dec. 02, 2017
Ever since Michael Flynn departed the Trump White House under a cloud of disgrace last February, spe... Read More
Dangers Are Coming to the Rule of Law Aug. 31, 2017
Amid the bad news this summer of racial tensions in Charlottesville and biblical-like floods in Hous... Read More
There Is No Pardoning Joe Arpaio Aug. 30, 2017
Nearly 10 years before Donald Trump pardoned him, Joe Arpaio made clear his racism, in a most public... Read More
Respecting the Power of the Pardon Aug. 20, 2017
WASHINGTON — President Donald Trump has not used the power granted to him in the U.S. Constitu... Read More
Authentic Republican Wisdom Aug. 05, 2017
American campaigns were not always, I can testify from personal witness, about the politics of perso... Read More
Gerald Ford and the 2016 Election Nov. 05, 2016
On Sept. 8, 1974, one month after he became the nation's only un-elected commander in chief, Preside... Read More
No Pardon for Edward Snowden Sep. 22, 2016
Edward Snowden did Americans a service. In revealing that the National Security Agency was collectin... Read More
Snowden, Putin, Trump Sep. 15, 2016
The ACLU is behind a campaign to prompt President Obama to pardon National Security Agency leaker Ed... Read More
