I Am Emphatically Pro-Preemptive Pardons

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With the explicit understanding that there may be many who do not want a preemptive pardon from President Biden for whatever reason, I don’t think we should be preemptively shaming anyone who might accept one. Here’s why.

First, let’s consider the fact that we are no longer living in a norms-based republic. All of those wringing their hands about what is legal, or about what the Constitution says might want to remember that this Supreme Court turned our Constitution on its head when they yanked the “no man is above the law” carpet out from under us this past summer. That’s saying nothing for neglected norms like FBI background checks, advice and consent from the Senate on cabinet nominations, or unelected oligarchs running a shadow presidency from the criminally-immune Oval Office.

To accept as fact that anyone targeted by Trump’s Department of Justice will have a normal course of due process under law is to vastly overestimate how much Donald Trump cares about the law. I believe we have to shift our mindset from “he can’t do that” to “he might do that, and we will have to put up as many roadblocks as possible.”

A preemptive pardon is a pretty good road block.

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