President Joe Biden’s senior aides are reportedly having vigorous internal discussions on whether to preemptively pardon a number of current and former officials who could face the wrath of President-elect Donald Trump.
President Joe Biden’s senior aides are reportedly having vigorous internal discussions on whether to preemptively pardon a number of current and former officials who could face the wrath of President-elect Donald Trump.
Ooh, that’s a fun idea. I assume a pardon requires a named specific person, though, no?
Pull every expired visa, rubber stamp the pardons for all of them on the off chance the person overstayed. I think you can limit the pardon only to the “crime” of overstaying, so you’d avoid pardoning actual criminals. That would get you most of the way there.
Sounds like a good start, to be sure!
Pardons like this have been done a few times, most recently by Carter