Donald Trump’s valet Walt Nauta was told that if he was charged with lying to the FBI, the former president would pardon him when he won a second term in 2024, according to notes from an interview with a witness in the federal classified documents investigation.
Having watched all of that, I’ve reached the conclusion that we really ought to have a constitutional amendment that changes the nature of presidential pardons, moving them to an appointed commission and out of the president’s own hands.
Or at least a combination. You can leave the power with the president and just add oversight approval.
Ir even explicitly forbid pardoning crimes which the court declares the president directly benefitted from, and/or people they had been directly involved with prior to/during the crime
Which court? The Supreme Court? If not, then who would appoint the judges?