Presidential candidates don’t usually have to deal with questions about whether they’d issue pardons for a rival. As stevebenen writes, the GOP's 2024 race is ... different.
Ordinarily, candidates for the nation’s highest office don’t have to deal with questions about whether they’d issue pardons for one of their rivals. That’s generally because, as a rule, those charged with multiple felonies don’t seek the presidency.
On CBS’s “Face the Nation,” former Arkansas Gov. Asa Hutchinson became the latest GOP contender to address the issue, as host Margaret Brennan asked him whether Trump should be pardoned “for the good of the country.” After noting that the former president hasn’t yet been convicted of anything, making the line of inquiry premature,, “I think that anybody who promises pardons during the presidential campaign is not serving our system of justice well and it’s inappropriate.
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