In Trumps final hours in office, a flurry of pardons and commutations

Dan Kobil:

Many people are highly troubled by the president's pardoning approach, because it really was the worst of both worlds.

By not going through the Justice Department's process, the president ignored thousands of ordinary people who had applied for pardons or commutations, typically pardons, in order to cleanse their records, in order to obtain employment opportunities, or things like that.

Indeed, Trump closed without any action by far the most pardon and commutation requests in history. So, he was inactive for the vast majority of requests, yet he was active for those with whom he was connected or had some sort of sympathy.

So, it really was the worst of both worlds, in that it avoided the regular pardon process that we need to make justice humane, which is what the founders of the Constitution wanted, yet it shows, in the ones that were granted, that there are really two tiers of justice, one for those who are connected to the president, and one for everybody else.

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