Litman on Preemptive Pardons: There Are Dozens of People on Various Hit List that Trump Has Promised to Go After, Even Though They’ve Done Nothing Wrong

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LITMAN: "Yeah. They’re kind of a new concept. I think it would be better to think of them as protective pardons. The idea is there are these dozens of people on various hit list that’s Trump has promised to go after, even though they’ve done nothing wrong. It is a very tricky position for the White House. Because they could cast a broad net and not only to the number of people but to the terms of each saying, you can’t do anything to them. But of course, it would really be a kind of final legacy move by the president and would be very hard to rebut the suggestion that will come later that oh, this is just doing the same and politicizing. It’s different because we’re talking about really people who are otherwise innocent, have done nothing wrong. But it’s a kind of an almost game of chicken. Would Trump actually do this? This would be the final chance to exercise power and protect or give a safe harbor to people who otherwise might be really unfairly in the cross hairs, have to pay a lot of money and the like."