by It’s pardon season– time when Presidents, on their way out, seek to pardon people that they know they’d get a lot of grief to pardon during their term, so they do it going out the door when they know it’ll be swallowed up in the new President’s news.
This year we get a new twist, where the current President– fearing that the new/old one will choose to prosecute people from his administration– might actually pardon a whole slew of people that attempted to take down Trump before he was elected. This would create a bad precedent:
I don’t see how this leads to anything but a pathway to the abuse of political power. Take Alejandro Mayorkas, for example. He’s repeatedly assured Congress that the border is secure. The border is not secure. There’s simply no question here, but in redefining the word “secure” to mean that people may flood into the country under the pretense of political persecution, get airline and bus tickets at our expense, and be released into the interior with a court date years into the future (which I doubt they will keep because no one will know where they are to hold them accountable), Mayorkas says there is a legal process for it all, and so the border is secure.
Usually a pardon is given for a crime, instead of before it. This is getting into really sketchy places if you ask me.
