Kelly's Articles

I am not a constitutional attorney. However, I would love to play one on T.V. If given that role, I would argue to the President of the United States that the power to pardon is a double-edged weapon when used as a preemptive shield. The U.S. Supreme Court validated the unlimited power of the president to pardon in its 1866 case Ex Party Garland. Three decades later they reaffirmed and clarified that a preemptive pardon is well within the president’s constitutional authority.