Photo credit: Nadya Chikurova& Pablo FernandezEntitled, "Biden Must Clean Up the Trump Pardons," the gist is that the Constitution prohibts presidential pardons during an impeachment process because those acts are easily construed as buying-off jurors.
With the battle building over the filibuster, there’s another area that cries out for Senate reform: the impeachment process that led to the recent acquittal of Donald Trump.
No senator should be allowed to serve as a “juror” if they’ve benefited from a pardon issued by an impeached president. In this case 12 senators, including 10 Republicans, had sponsored Trump’s last round of pardons, creating the appearance of a conflict of interest and lack of impartiality.
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