Cato Scholar: Trump’s Latest Pardon Raises Questions about Selective Clemency
On his first day in office, President Donald Trump pardoned nearly 1,500 defendants. Now, he has continued to use his pardon powers and recently pardoned former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández, who was sentenced to 45 years in prison for drug trafficking. , Following the pardon, Cato scholar Walter Olson released the following statement: , The most coherent explanation for pardoning Juan Orlando Hernández would be if President Trump had finally decided that the decades-long drug war is an expensive […]