On CNN This Morning, The Dispatch co-founder and CNN analyst Jonah Goldberg suggested that Biden and Trump could be impeached for their abusive, “grotesque” misuse of the pardon power–Biden in respect of his final-day pardons of family members, Trump for his sweeping pardons and commutations of January 6 defendants.
In support of his view, Goldberg cited James Madison, who said that a president using the pardon power to advance criminal or selfish schemes for his own benefit should be subject to impeachment. Goldberg was so disgusted by the Biden/Trump pardons that it made him want to amend the Constitution to remove the pardon power.
Goldberg called the January 6 pardons “flatly indefensible” and predicted, “both of the pardons, both Biden’s and Trump’s, are going to have unbelievable moral hazard knock-on effects and set terrible precedents going…
