NYT Columnist Warns Of Chilling Way Trump’s Pardon Abuse Could Get So Much WorseSince returning to the White House earlier this year, the list of people pardoned by President Donald Trump — which includes Jan. 6 rioters; convicted billionaires; Darryl Strawberry, for some reason; and, most recently, the disgraced former president of Honduras, whom the Justice Department once accused of being at "the center of one of the largest and most violent drug-trafficking conspiracies in the world" — has raised fears about the corrupt use of one of the presidency's key constitutional prerogatives.And the worst could still be yet to come, warns New York Times columnist Jamelle Bouie:"As venal and scandalous as the president's pardons have been," Bouie writes, "they aren't yet as bad as they could be. Take the Supreme Court’s grant of presidential criminal immunity for 'official acts' in Trump v. United States. Under the conservative majority’s theory of the Constitution, which treats the pardon as a 'core power' shielded from judicial scrutiny, the president could order the assassination of a political rival and then pardon those involved without any violence done to the constitutional order."Read more at The New York Times.See All UpdatesClose