Conservative groups influential with the Trump administration have pressed for the preemptive acts of clemency.

There’s a world of difference between a pardon issues to prevent malicious prosecution for non-crimew and one issued to people you’ve been instructing to commit crimes

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    It’s almost like the writers of the Constitution got tired of arguing after a certain point and did not care about looking deeper at many of the provisions that could easily be abused.

    I don’t see them as the deep thinkers others do. They had grievances for the times and it’s clear that the works are all driven by those grievances and not for a long lasting society.

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      Almost like they were human. Is it better for them to just be ideal symbols than something real and complicated?