One thing Biden could do...
Nov. 16th, 2024 09:17 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
jsburbidge ... which Trump couldn't reverse:
Pardon everybody Trump has mentioned going after for personal or partisan reasons. (His relatives, Harris, Cheney, etc.).
There's precedent for broad pardons for "anything done under the term of ..." (more monarchical than Presidential, but there's continuity there).
Mist things a president can do by executive order can be reversed by another executive order. Pardons are not in that category.
Pardon everybody Trump has mentioned going after for personal or partisan reasons. (His relatives, Harris, Cheney, etc.).
There's precedent for broad pardons for "anything done under the term of ..." (more monarchical than Presidential, but there's continuity there).
Mist things a president can do by executive order can be reversed by another executive order. Pardons are not in that category.
