The real problem with the pardon power.This grotesque list. Clients and potential clients ask me all the time if a pardon is possible. I ask “are you super-rich or highly connected to super-rich or powerful people? No? Then probably not.” https://t.co/HEgzaj02vS
— PardonMeHat (@Popehat) January 20, 2021u
I must respectfully differ from @jacobsullum’s take.
— RiddanceHat (@Popehat) January 20, 2021
Bread is good, but that doesn’t mean bread and circuses are good.
/1 https://t.co/dnwUkXPpvz
/3 Is it good that the specific people Jacob mention received mercy? Yes. But how do we view that mercy? It’s not systematic or consistent. It’s a minuscule percentage of similarly situated people unjustly confined. They won the lottery.
— RiddanceHat (@Popehat) January 20, 2021
/5 The way that deserving people get struck by this particular lightning — by the intercession of saint-like, otherworldly celebrities - merely reinforces this comparison.
— RiddanceHat (@Popehat) January 20, 2021
/7 So: i dissent that the Presidential pardon, at least as used in recent memory, is praiseworthy when it vastly disproportionately helps the powerful and helps an infinitesimal percentage of the deserving in an attempt to make us forget the rest. /end
— RiddanceHat (@Popehat) January 20, 2021
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