{"id":101553,"date":"2025-01-23T12:49:07","date_gmt":"2025-01-23T20:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/01\/23\/lsquoundermines-the-rule-of-law-retired-us-judges-condemn-trumps-jan-6-pardons\/"},"modified":"2025-01-23T12:49:07","modified_gmt":"2025-01-23T20:49:07","slug":"lsquoundermines-the-rule-of-law-retired-us-judges-condemn-trumps-jan-6-pardons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/2025\/01\/23\/lsquoundermines-the-rule-of-law-retired-us-judges-condemn-trumps-jan-6-pardons\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Undermines the Rule of Law’: Retired US Judges Condemn Trump’s Jan. 6 Pardons"},"content":{"rendered":"

“He pardoned people because they were doing his bidding, which was to break the law,” said former federal appeals court Judge Thomas Vanaskie. “That’s an abuse of the pardon power in my judgment. I think it really undermines the rule of law.\u201d<\/p>\n

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“He pardoned people because they were doing his bidding, which was to break the law,” said former federal appeals court Judge Thomas Vanaskie. “That’s an abuse of the pardon power in my judgment. I think it really undermines the rule of law.\u201d<\/p>\n

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“He pardoned people because they were doing his bidding, which was to break the law,” said former federal appeals court Judge Thomas Vanaskie. “That’s an abuse of the pardon power in my judgment. I think it really undermines the rule of law.\u201d \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 “He pardoned people because they were doing his bidding, which was to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":101554,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[23,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-101553","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-law-com","category-legal_matters"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/xira.com\/p\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/legal-news-wRhaCK.jpeg?fit=768%2C633&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101553","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=101553"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/101553\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/101554"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=101553"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=101553"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/xira.com\/p\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=101553"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}