‘Royal authority’: Jeffrey Toobin explores the US presidential pardon in his new book
In The Pardon, the bestselling legal author holds a master class on the controversial presidential power, focusing on Ford’s pardon of Nixon“When it comes to pardons, presidents are kings,” Jeffrey Toobin writes in his new book, The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy. “No other provision of the constitution replicates royal authority with such precision.”The constitution expressly confers upon the president the “Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment”.The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy is published in the US by Simon & Schuster Continue reading...
In The Pardon, the bestselling legal author holds a master class on the controversial presidential power, focusing on Ford’s pardon of Nixon
“When it comes to pardons, presidents are kings,” Jeffrey Toobin writes in his new book, The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy. “No other provision of the constitution replicates royal authority with such precision.”
The constitution expressly confers upon the president the “Power to grant Reprieves and Pardons for Offences against the United States, except in Cases of Impeachment”.
The Pardon: The Politics of Presidential Mercy is published in the US by Simon & Schuster Continue reading...
