
So I feel like Trump might be starting to get a taste for pardons, even if they don’t constitute a political maneuver. In the last month he’s commuted the Sentence of Alice Marie Johnson, a woman who was in prison for a non-violent drug offense, at the urging of Kim Kardashian after a fun little meeting, and he also posthumously pardoned boxer Jack Johnson, with a room full of celebrities including Sylvester Stallone. When discussing the pardons, he talked about the “thrill” of these pardons, and it makes me think it’s just one of those random Presidential duties he’s taken a liking to. That said, it seems like there is a risk of him going…rather overboard. He’s openly admitted that he has a list of about 3000 names he’d like to look at pardoning, and if we’re being honest…I don’t know that I necessarily trust his judgment when it comes to who is deserving.