The J6 Pardons — the Long View
Even armed insurrection was met with the mercy of pardons in the earliest days of the Republic.

In respect of the uproar over President Trump’s last minute decision to issue a blanket pardon to those convicted in connection with January 6, we’ve hung back. We’re troubled by questions like equal justice under law, bills of attainder in the Congress, and what history teaches about the way our revolutionary leaders dealt with real, and seriously violent, insurrections. Plus the baldly political nature of the Justice Department’s handling of the J6 events.
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