A lot of it is just wrong. The president has the absolute power to pardon federal crimes, but only federal crimes. He can’t pardon state crimes. For federal crimes, it’s an unlimited power.
Most notably, there was Biden’s breaking his promise not to pardon his son, Hunter. And then there were the commutations of the sentences of 37 of the 40 prisoners, all killers and some of them ...
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President Donald Trump’s pardon of those that attacked the Capitol to stop what he called the fraudulent and illegal counting of votes is fair. They were following the orders of the president of ...
A commutation, which reduces or removes a sentence but does not imply innocence, is not the same as a pardon, which releases a person from punishment and expresses the president's forgiveness.