The Editor weighs in on pardons

Fidell, Trump's Increasingly Questionable Pardons Should Make Congress Act, The Hill, May 21, 2019. Excerpt:

Presidents should be strongly discouraged from exercising the pardon power in ways that subvert American adherence to the law of armed conflict. The country has a duty to deter, investigate and prosecute war crimes. To permit open-ended use of the pardon power in these circumstances would blow a hole in our compliance with those requirements and subvert our own ability to demand compliance by opposing forces with the law of war.