View of the Washington Monument through Lincoln Memorial columns at sunset in Washington, DC.

How Thick is the Blanket? – Preemptive Pardons as a Presidential Power

As the presiding judge scolded Hunter Biden’s attorneys this week, “The Constitution provides the President with broad authority to grant reprieves and pardons for offenses against the United States, U.S. Const. art. II, § 2, cl. 1, but nowhere does the Constitution give the President the authority to rewrite history.”  But what exactly is that…