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The presidential pardon has allowed our country to move on from problems that would lead to decades of prosecutions and counter-prosecutions as power changes pa
by indymike 6y ago
The presidential pardon has allowed our country to move on from problems that would lead to decades of prosecutions and counter-prosecutions as power changes party. Nixon and the civil war are both examples.
- cma 6y agoCongress already has tools for that (and the president has some sway through veto power): https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty_law#United_States https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amnesty_law#United_States There's no good reason to give all that power of unconditional pardons to one person.
- eevilspock 6y agoActually the "moving on" that Andrew Johnson enabled after the Civil War effectively terminated Reconstruction, launched nearly 100 years of Jim Crow, and gave permission for the South to regress (see "KKK"). In other words, Black people would beg to differ.