When I posted that the specific case I had in mind was Carter’s pardon of Peter Yarrow for a sexual offense. It turns out that case involved the District of Columbia so was Federal. So I mistook...
I still don’t see how a power can be considered both ‘plenary’ and ‘limited.’ They need to stop referring to the President’s pardon power as ‘plenary’ if it is in fact limited.
It is plenary, but only in federal crimes. I know our opponents want the federal
Government to rule over all, but there are a few quaint relics of federalism remaining, and here is one of them