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We the People: December 23, 2024

Biden and Trump have brought the presidential pardon power center stage

Readers’ questions about the origins and scope of the presidential pardon power, triggered by President Joe Biden’s grant of a pardon to his son, Hunter, and the possibility he would issue blanket clemency – a preconviction pardon – to those whom President-elect Donald Trump has said should “go to jail,” coupled with Trump’s d...