Elizabeth Jo

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99% Invisible · Constitution Breakdown #5: Dr. Tom Frieden · 26 Dec 2025 podcast

So a little bit of an inconsistency there.

Mm, you know, just unfair, witch hunt, too long of a sentence, et cetera.

And Roger Stone reportedly lobbied the president directly on Hernandez's behalf.

Stone's a longtime Trump advisor, and apparently it worked.

And on January twentieth, as one of Trump's very first acts in his second term, there's a pretty significant use of the pardon power.

Trump pardoned nearly all of the sixteen hundred people charged in connection with the attack on the Capitol on January sixth, twenty twenty one.

Trump also commuted the sentences of fourteen members of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keeper groups.

And commutations are also part of the pardon power.

These were folks primarily convicted of seditious conspiracy.

As part of his pardon order here, Trump also ordered the Justice Department to dismiss all pending indictments against people who were still facing charges for January sixth.

Now, months later, the Justice Department also took the very broad position that criminal cases that were secondary to the January sixth attacks were also covered by the pardon, although some judges have already rejected these claims.

So that's for instance, they were after January sixth, let's say investigators were looking for evidence of your involvement in the attacks on the Capitol.

And while they were searching your home, they found

illegal firearms or illegal drugs, you know, these folks have said, Well, you know, I'm covered by this pardon.

And the Justice Department has said, Well, yeah, sure, because they're somehow related in a very tangential way to investigating your involvement in January sixth, which of course seems kind of crazy, right?

But

This is a pretty extraordinary use of the pardon power.

I mean, definitely, presidents in the past have used a mass pardon power.

But this is of a different order altogether.

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