I am in complete agreement with letter writer Robert Schwartz concerning President Trump’s blanket pardons for those who attacked our nation’s Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. Schwartz quoted a poll ...
I totally agree with Kenneth Tatum’s letter and am so glad you printed it. I had the very same experience except my concern was the pardon/commuted sentences of the Jan. 6 protestors.
For whatever reason, the writers of our Constitution gave this unchangeable power to the president: “The President … shall have Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against ...
Anna Mundy’s attempt to justify Trump’s pardons (Tribune-Star, February 6) of those who violently attacked Capitol Police officers on January 6 is beyond ludicrous. She somehow believes that ...
Soon after the proclamation was signed, the MAGA faithful applauded and celebrated, while several prominent Republican senators later expressed concern about the pardon. So much for the rule of ...
A pardon is an executive order granting clemency for a conviction. A commutation is a mitigating of the sentence of someone currently serving a sentence for a crime pursuant to a conviction ...
A presumption of guilt thus remains, regardless. The Supreme Court needs to strike down these pardons as being non-enforceable, given the lack of charges, let alone prosecution and sentencing ...