Alan Dershowitz, Harvard law professor emeritus, told Newsmax on Tuesday that while former President Joe Biden’s preemptive pardons won’t benefit his family in any “material way,” they do set a precedent for President Donald Trump to use the presidential clemency power “very broadly.”
Dershowitz joined “National Report” to discuss Biden’s 11th-hour pardons to his family — as well as Jan. 6 select committee members — prior to leaving office on Monday.
“Well, this certainly opens up, President Trump, the ability to use the pardon power very broadly. He now has a precedent, much the way Biden had a precedent with President [Gerald] Ford,” when he preemptively pardoned Richard Nixon in September 1974, Dershowitz said.
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