Just realized I never looked at the pro-pardon side of the arguments that raged through the latter part of January. Seems embarrassing now to realize it was the first time I'd ever been prompted to even question it.
This is a great/succinct breakdown of the strategic political utility for which it was (ostensibly) always intended.
I just have a question about George Wilson. What exactly was his fate? Wasn’t he pardoned twice the first by Jackson then he was pardoned again by Martin Van Buren?
Just realized I never looked at the pro-pardon side of the arguments that raged through the latter part of January. Seems embarrassing now to realize it was the first time I'd ever been prompted to even question it.
This is a great/succinct breakdown of the strategic political utility for which it was (ostensibly) always intended.
I just have a question about George Wilson. What exactly was his fate? Wasn’t he pardoned twice the first by Jackson then he was pardoned again by Martin Van Buren?
Reposting this great discussion of constitutional history.