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The beneficiaries of Trump’s mercy are overwhelmingly male, white and hostile to the system of justice itself Wednesday brought more news of President Trump’s determination to use the powers of the presidency as inducements for people to do his bidding. WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, who is fighting extradition from England to the United States, claims that he was offered a presidential pardon if he publicly denied that Russia hacked the Democratic National Committee during the 2016 campaign. Assange’s claim, along with Tuesday’s grants of clemency by Trump, helps to explain the president’s special love of this unique presidential prerogative. Of all of his powers, clemency comes closest to fulfilling his view that as president he can do whatever he wants and, at the same time, to revealing the primitive and instinctive component of Trump’s personality, what Sigmund Freud called “id”. In commuting the sentence of the former Illinois governor Blagojevich, Trump was granting clemency to his own alter ego Austin Sarat is professor of political science and law, jurisprudence and social thought and the author of a book on the use of clemency in capital cases, Mercy on Trial: What it Means to Stop an Execution Continue reading…
