How the No Payoffs for Pardons Act Aims to Bring Transparency to Executive Clemency

How the No Payoffs for Pardons Act Aims to Bring Transparency to Executive Clemency

On August 21, Congressman Jamie Raskin, the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee, released a report entitled “Pardons, Inc.: How Trump and His Clemency-for-Cash Racket Let White-Collar Criminals and International Drug Dealers Walk Free and Dodge Billions in Restitution Owed to Their Victims.” As the title suggests, the report documents the president’s startling abuse of his constitutional power to grant pardons and reprieves.If that p…