FELDMAN: Presidential pardons have been a bad idea since 1787
By Noah Feldman, Bloomberg News (TNS) The president of the United States isn’t a king, and he isn’t above the law -- or so constitutional law professors like me keep reminding everybody. But the painful truth is that there is one exception to this truth: the pardon power, exercised this week by President Donald Trump to free or absolve several white-collar criminals. The presidential power to pardon