Reply To: Limiting Presidential Pardons

I am thrilled and delighted that my opening post has prompted such an enlightened, informed discussion of the US presidential power of pardon. Probably the greatest contribution to this discussion was from Pekak – read it for yourself, as it defies summarization.

But I (the opening poster) asked a much narrower question, which I further narrowed in my second post: Among those of you who voted for Trump, would you have voted for him if you knew about the pardons he issued for his machitin, his campaign staff, those Congressmen convicted of insider trading and others he announced after the election? And my original question was, should the president be allowed to issue pardons after he can no longer run for office?