Biden should push to limit presidential pardon powers

The dangers of letting the power rest in the hands of the president alone have become evident.

Incoming U.S. president Joe Biden should urge legislators across party lines to study the unjustifiable use of the pardon by various presidents and revisit the proposal made at the Philadelphia convention by Roger Sherman.The Hill Times file photograph

Opinion

BY GHAZY MUJAHID

January 11, 2021

At the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia, in 1787, held to decide how independent America was going to be governed as a republic, Alexander Hamilton proposed that the president be vested with the power to pardon. The proposal, seen as a pre-Independence legacy of the royal prerogative of pa...

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