[Opinion] Rachel Barkow: Did Trump and Biden turn pardons into a corrupt joke?

Latest Trump pardon shows just how much the rules have changed (for the worse)

Donald Trump’s habit of handing out presidential pardons like party favors was a scandal in his first term. It’s worse now.

Rachel Barkow: Did Trump and Biden turn pardons into a corrupt joke?

This week's guest is Rachel Barkow, a professor of law at New York University and the author of the book Justice Abandoned: How the Supreme Court Ignored the Constitution and Enabled Mass Incarceration, which was just released this month. Barkow and Reason's Billy Binion talked about the importance of the presidential pardon power—which is a controversial topic these days, after former President Joe Biden used it to preemptively pardon Anthony F…

I don't know whether to laugh or cry. Donald Trump has barely managed to change the curtains in the White House before – after just one month – he has managed to ignite more political scandals than most presidents manage in four years. It's so outrageous that it's almost comical, but at the same time so serious that it gives you chills. He has toyed with the idea of (illegally) running for president for a third time. What he will achieve until t…