Washington: Former legislators, a sheriff, a nursing facility executive, a reality TV celebrity, and a drug lord. What do these individuals have in common, one would wonder?
The truth is that since taking office in January, US President Donald Trump has pardoned a number of Americans who were convicted of crimes.
Furthermore, according to Kermit Roosevelt, a law professor at the University of Pennsylvania, Trump is pardoning people “in a bigger, more aggressive way with sort of no sense of shame,” whereas previous US presidents have granted dubious pardons.
“The pardon power has always been a little bit problematic because it’s this completely unconstrained power that the president has,” Roosevelt stated to AFP.
