Don't want presidents doing lots of shitty things you don't like? Reduce the amount of power granted to the branch.
Congress literally could reduce the power of the executive branch, but if they did, then /theirguy/ would not have that power after Trump
>Don't want presidents doing lots of shitty things you don't like? Reduce the amount of power granted to the branch.
Congress literally could reduce the power of the executive branch, but if they did, then /theirguy/ would not have that power after Trump
Personally, pardons should generally only be used for obvious miscarriages of justice, or if some new information becomes known or had to be classified that can now be declassified where we can say "there are extenuating circumstances, and this punishment is now (or always was) unjust". Stuff like that.
And plenty of presidents before have had "pet pardons" they've used for whatever reason they've wanted to in the past. I'm pretty sure I remember plenty of conservatives making a big fuss when Obama did it; but liberals had very little to say, or the argument was "this was a non-issue". But this one is an issue right? And we all know why, because the guy doing it plays for the other team, or he's literally Hitler and about to murder all 150 million people who didn't vote for him, or whatever.
Protip: Don't want presidents doing lots of shitty things you don't like? Reduce the amount of power granted to the branch.