Politics

Hopefully the States get them. President can't pardon State charges, but we all know he will threaten to anyways but let him expose himself more. The busier he is fighting or seething about anything unrelated, the less time he has to get other agenda stuff done. Keep him as busy as he is keeping online article writers.

Because the justice system is entirely formed on the belief that it is better to let many guilty people go free than one innocent person be punished, or so it is said. So giving the president the ultimate ability to grant clemency, but none to punish, was an intentional, last ditch method for preventing injustice, supposedly.

In our defense, we put a plan in place to prevent that, but in doing so didn't plan on half the people in question being too afraid to use said plan and/or [the other] half of those people to be down bad for such power grabs

Assuming we are living in the Idiocracy timeline, so we can grant one for Not Sure.

I don’t effing know. The pardon seems very strange to me.

To prevent the friends of the rich and powerful from having to face justice for their crimes. The idea that the US ever had Rule of Law is a joke.

our govt was the beta for democracy and was primarily structured by the wealthy elite to maintain power for the wealthy elite. We've now gone so long without a much needed revolution that we can no longer do so without bloodshed, and I guess material conditions still haven't deteriorated enough for people to be willing to put their lives on the line for their children's future.