Pardon power should not be used as a shield for corruption
Donald Trump says in his semi-official publication Truth Social that he has pardoned convicted Mesa County Clerk Tina Peters. Leaving aside the absurdity of his claimed authority to pardon people convicted of state, not federal, crimes, we the people need to take a serious, measured and intellectually honest look at the presidential pardon power — and at the broader, dangerous expansion of executive authority exercised by this administration and so far affirmed by the Supreme Court.
The pardon power was never intended to function as a shield for corruption, nor as a transactional tool that rewards loyalty, silence or money. Used recklessly, it undermines equal justice under law and erodes public trust in our democratic institutions. A system in which pardons appear to be for sale — or selectively deployed to excuse insurrection, criminality or abuse of power — poses a direct threat to the rule of law itself.
No president is above the law, and no officeholder should wield authority so vast that accountability becomes optional.
If democracy is to endure, we must be willing to reform the legal structures and procedures that allow power to concentrate beyond the reach of accountability to those who put them there.
Andrew Morehead, Greeley
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