A Real 28th Amendment: Pardon Reform

Democrats have taught America that the pardon power needs to be restrained

Richard Nixon, the template for Joe Biden’s flurry of pardons.

One June 17, 1972, five men were arrested for breaking into the DNC office at the Watergate complex. This innocuous police action set into motion events that ended the presidency of Richard Nixon. More than fifty years later, many Americans are fuzzy as to how exactly Nixon’s downfall played out. Was he impeached? Removed from office? Convicted?

No, no, and no.

Nixon initially denied involvement in the burglary, but a week later he actually ordered the FBI to back off on the investigation. It was that action that ultimately served as evidence of Nixon’s complicity, but it wasn’t nearly enough to bring him down in the moment. Nixon won the election that fall by a large margin, carrying the electoral votes of 49 states! It was only in 1973, after his second term began, that momentum built for a serious investigation into the Nixon administration’s spying. That investigation happened, it was televised, and it captivated America …