Longer Reads provide in-depth analysis of the ideas and forces shaping politics, economics, international affairs, and more. The pardon power is the only authority the US Constitution places entirely in the president’s hands, immune from legislative override or judicial review. For Alexander Hamilton, who assumed that shame would restrain abuse, Donald Trump is the nightmare scenario. PARIS – Last week, Juan Orlando Hernández walked out of a federal prison in West Virginia a free man. A former president of Honduras, Hernández, who once boasted that he would “stuff the drugs up the gringos’ noses,” had been sentenced to 45 years in prison for conspiring to import more than 400 tons of cocaine into the United States.
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