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The Situation on Friday said goodbye to a genuinely decent man who had earnestly sought to do justice.
And now, as Maurice Sendak might put it, let the indecent rumpus start.
I could write this column today about the indecency of pardoning more than a thousand people convicted of crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection, making the point that this sort of indecency is really, really bad" -- but that's obvious.
I could write instead about the Kafkaesque nature of beginning a presidential proclamation on the subject of these clemency actions by describing the Jan. 6 prosecutions, many of which involved violent felonies, as "a grave national injustice" -- but that's also too obvious to spend any time on.
I could write about how the president's proclamation, which also "direct[s] the Attorney General to pursue dismissal with prejudice to the government of all pending indictments against individuals for their conduct related to the events at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021," constitutes a dramatic and overt presidential intervention in a series of ongoing criminal cases of precisely the sort that would normally provoke scandal. But that point too is obvious. Who needs to hear more about the investigative independence of the Justice Department? ...
The truth is that I have almost nothing non-obvious to say about the president's action -- just one thing, really.
It all won't work.
Oh, the president might accomplish a short-term goal. He has rewarded his friends. And he has thus shown others that he will protect them if they commit crimes or take risks for him. He has put the power of the United States federal government behind the patent lie that the prosecution of Jan. 6 rioters was an injustice requiring remedy, which is all part of the larger lie that the prosecution of Trump himself was political. And that -- in turn -- is all part of the still-larger lie that the 2020 election was stolen from him. So sure, he has thrown some dust in the air. ...
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