As power inexorably slips from his grasp, the defeated president finds his pardon authority to be the one weapon he can deploy without any checks. But few if any have used their pardon power to attack the system in quite the way that Trump has. “That would be a crime.”Some Democrats have sought to restrain Trump’s pardon power. Sen Christopher S Murphy of Connecticut even called for removing the pardon power from the Constitution. The president pardoned a former campaign manager and nephew by marriage of Sen Rand Paul, R-Ky, a key ally.

Source: bd News24 December 25, 2020 10:28 UTC