An important and critical component for administering constitutional law... involves interpreting the Constitution's ORIGINAL INTENT...
Our Founding Fathers never intended the Constitutional power to PARDON... to become a tool to escape Justice. After all, the purpose of the law is to administer JUSTICE, not to avoid it.
Justice doesn't Pardon Racketeers or habitual criminals... Our founders would be appalled to find our legal profession and the President exercising the power to 'Pardon' to escape JUSTICE. The power to pardon must not be permitted to thwart the very underpinnings of Justice and the righteous administration of the law.
I don't believe the SCOTUS would find a President's 'Pardon Powers'... as ORIGINALLY intended... to be used to escape JUSTICE... Pardons are a means to facilitate JUSTICE, not to escape it.
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An important and critical component for administering constitutional law... involves interpreting the Constitution's ORIGINAL INTENT...
Our Founding Fathers never intended the Constitutional power to PARDON... to become a tool to escape Justice. After all, the purpose of the law is to administer JUSTICE, not to avoid it.
Justice doesn't Pardon Racketeers or habitual criminals... Our founders would be appalled to find our legal profession and the President exercising the power to 'Pardon' to escape JUSTICE. The power to pardon must not be permitted to thwart the very underpinnings of Justice and the righteous administration of the law.
I don't believe the SCOTUS would find a President's 'Pardon Powers'... as ORIGINALLY intended... to be used to escape JUSTICE... Pardons are a means to facilitate JUSTICE, not to escape it.