The Most Recent Presidential Pardons & the Most Important Oral Arguments before the Supreme Court

Amicus: A Law Review · Oct 8, 2022 · 1h 28m

Invoking his delegated authority under Section 2 of the Constitution, the President

this past week twice granted pardons and clemency to groups of people—for very

different reasons, under very different circumstances. How should we understand

these decisions to commute the sentences of convicted felons to secure the return

of Americans imprisoned in a foreign country and, unrelated, to pardon thousands

of people with prior federal convictions for marijuana possession? Returning to

Section 3 of the Constitution, what might we have learned this past week from the

public, oral arguments before…