Holly Brewer is Burke Professor of American History at the University of Maryland and author of By Birth or Consent: Children, Law, and the Anglo-American Revolution in Authority (2005). Timothy Noah is a contributing editor of the Washington Monthly. He is the author of The Great Divergence: America’s Growing Inequality Crisis and What We Can Do About It.
Can Trump’s Pardons Be Reversed?
President Ulysses S. Grant did it, and George W. Bush, and the Constitution would seem to encourage it.