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The Globe and Mail Published December 25, 2020 TOM BRENNER/Reuters Donald Trump is using a power steeped in history in an 11th-hour effort to rewrite history. The President is employing the constitutional power of the pardon to do more than settle scores that grew out of the Russia investigation. With the scratch of a pen, Mr. Trump is pardoning the principals convicted by Robert Mueller in a final-days effort to win his battle with the special counsel whose 2017-19 investigation tormented him. American presidents since George Washington have used the clemency power in Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution, but only Mr. Trump has pardoned or commuted the sentences of his political allies to the degree to which he has done, with more than 90 per cent of his decisions benefiting those with personal, political or legal ties to the President. ....
Presidents shouldnât have blanket pardon power Clemency and pardons are ripe for abuse â but ending the practice entirely would be unjust too. By David ShribmanUpdated December 17, 2020, 3:00 a.m. Email to a Friend Michael Flynn, who was President Trump s first national security adviser, pleaded guilty to lying to the FBI but got pardoned by Trump.Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg In the next few weeks, President Donald J. Trump, with his unerring instinct for provoking controversy, very likely will issue a flurry of pardons or commutations â to several of his onetime aides, perhaps to whistleblower Edward Snowden or lawyer Rudolph Giuliani, maybe even to members of his family and to himself. A blizzard of outrage will follow, just as it did when Gerald R. Ford pardoned Richard M. Nixon, when George H.W. Bush pardoned former defense secretary Caspar Weinberger and other Iran-Contra officials, when Bill Clinton pardoned financier Marc Rich, and when Bara ....