To Pardon or Not to Pardon— that is the Question

S M Chen
5 min readJun 15, 2023

What has been bandied about recently in various news media is the notion of pardoning ex-POTUS Donald Trump.

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Here is one pertinent news column. It makes no pretense of being a scholarly treatise on the topic:

And here is a letter to the editor of ‘The Chicago Tribune’ with a similar conclusion but different emphasis:

Herein I examine this potentially thorny issue and hope, in the process, not to draw blood. Mine or anyone else’s.

Human blood is a precious commodity. We are reminded of this with regularity by the American Red Cross when we are urged to donate blood or its various substrates, whether it be plasma, platelets, or some other component of the life-giving liquid.

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