“That is end of the Republic stuff.”
Only if the legal actions are groundless. If real crimes were committed, they should not be forgiven for the sake of peaceful transition.
The idea that some high level politicians should be above the law is absurd. Our justice system is already equipped to weed out politically motivated prosecutions.
In fact, since people keep bringing up the pardon of Nixon as an example of pardoning a crime in the interest of peaceful transition, I will offer another explanation:
I suggest the pardon of Nixon was the opposite: it was the recognition that Nixon’s involvement in the underlying crime was virtually nonexistent, and exclusively a politically motivated hit job. So the pardon of Nixon was not a pardon but rather the acknowledgement that there was nothing to pardon.
That’s the way these ‘pardons’ are supposed to work, not as a way for politicians to escape justice from real crimes.
It reminds me of the idea of some banks supposedly being “too big to fail”.
Are some criminals “too big to jail”?
I don’t think so.
That’s not the purpose of a political pardon. The purpose of a political pardon is to protect a relatively innocent man, such as Richard Nixon, from any further politically motivated destruction than had already been unfairly meted out to him. NOT to protect actual criminals like the Clintons from the justice they so richly deserve.
"That’s not the purpose of a political pardon. The purpose of a political pardon is to protect a relatively innocent man, such as Richard Nixon, from any further politically motivated destruction than had already been unfairly meted out to him. NOT to protect actual criminals like the Clintons from the justice they so richly deserve."
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Nixon’s biggest crime was to protect Dean. Period! Dean, the (I can’t text the word), turned on him. Mrs. Mo Dean prior to being Mrs. Dean was a hooker. The ledgers had to be removed from Watergate.