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Ed Martin makes the case for mercy in an age of lawfare and politicized justice. When the justice system becomes a political weapon, clemency stops being a “presidential privilege” and becomes one of the last guardrails against abuse. And that’s why the left is so scared. The second Trump starts issuing pardons, the media spin machine kicks into high gear. They treat his acts of clemency with the same tired bias they always do, suddenly acting like mercy itself is suspicious. What they never stop to ask is what mercy actually means when the justice system is no longer acting...

When Joy Reid and her merry band of liberals sink their teeth into something, it’s hard to tear them away. Last month, we entertained you with this item about Reid & Co. mentioning “Russia” 56 times in one hour. On today’s AM Joy, the word was “pardon.” No Groucho-like duck came down, but Reid and her panelists pored interminably over the pardon possibilities. We counted 32 “pardon” mentions in the 14-minute segment. Naturally, the panel was horrified at the prospect of President Trump pardoning himself or others. Reid herself conjured up a nightmare scenario of Trump committing “treason, and then...