About That Presidential Pardon

No, we are not going to dabble in politics. Nor are we going to plead the rightness or wrongness of either the position of the Republicans or that of the Democrats in this matter. For one thing, the position of both is characterized by the fact that the motivations were pragmatic; and when it comes to pragmatic considerations, a political figure can only hope that he is gauging correctly the opinions of the half-plus-one, the majority, of the electorate. If he does, he wins; if he fails to do...