Jan 27
2025
Trump sets the table for lawlessness
I expected Trump’s first week in office to be terrible. It was worse than terrible, in so many ways. I want to focus on Trump’s use of pardons. It wasn’t just those given to the January 6 insurrectionists. Consider: Trump also pardoned Ross Ulbricht, who was serving a life sentence for running a website used to sell drugs in what the FBI called “the most sophisticated and extensive criminal marketplace on the internet.” Trump called the prosecutors who put Ulbricht in jail “scum.” The president also gave pardons to two white Washington, D.C., cops responsible for the death of a[...]